Kindergarten, Writing, Week 22

Monday I introduced the lower case letters f and t. K. practiced a line of each letter each day.

Small Muscle Development:

• Obstacle Course, see Writing, Week 8 for instructions.

Story Development:

• Halting Stories, see Writing, Week 17 for instructions.

Writing Practice:

• Activity: That's Good, That's Bad from Games for Writing
• You'll need: Writing Paper, Pencil, Spinner
• Cut a circle for the spinner from poster board, card stock, or an old manila folder.
• Divide the circle in fourths. In one section write "Lose a Turn", in one write "That's Bad", in one write "That's Good", in the last write, "That's Good, That's Bad".
• Rules: Players take turns flicking the spinner and writing the next sentence (or two) in the story, according to the spinner instructions. If a player lands on "Lose a Turn", then they don't write. If a player lands on "That's Good, That's Bad", they write two sentences. The "Good" sentence does not have to be first.
• Variation: If you want to add points, every line of good news gets 5 points; every line of bad news gets 3 points; lose a turn gets 0 points; of course, writing a good and bad line gets 8 points.
• Here is the story we ended up with:

My dog barked too loud. That's bad. The neighbors were not home. That's good. My dog jumped the fence. That's bad. My dog missed his food. That's bad. He got food. That's good. He came home to me. That's good.