Kindergarten, Writing, Week 41

Practice "Sentence": And talk of God who cares for me.

• I thought K. would need 2 lines to write it, but she wanted to write it on 1 line. The first day "for me" was really squished. But she learned to write everything skinnier so it would all fit nicely on the line.

Small Muscle Development:

• Activity: Say It With Pictures, see Writing, Week 9 for instructions
• Our theme was Thanksgiving

Story Development:

• Activity: Strange Sentences, from Games for Writing -- this game gives children the opportunity to compose nonsensical sentences while helping them understand the grammatical anatomy of common sentences.
• You'll Need: a Strange Sentences Chart, and a Spinner with numbers 1 - 6, paper, pencil
• In the book are charts with sentences broken up into pieces (Who/What, Did What, Where, When, and Punctuation). Each chart has six sentences.
• How to Play:
• Have your child flick the spinner.
• It it lands on 3, then you take the Who/What from sentence number three.
• Spin again.
• What ever number it lands on, you take the Did What from that sentence.
• Continue spinning a getting the sentence parts until you have the complete sentence.
• Let your child illustrate the sentence and tell you a story about it.
• Our sentence was: My cat lost a part in the barn during lunch!

Writing Practice:

• Activity: Traveling Words, see Writing, Week 28 for instructions
• The shape to write on was an autumn leaf