January's Author Study

We are having fun reading stories by Ezra Jack Keats.  Yesterday we watched an interview with the author/illustrator. The children listened to The Snowy Day. Their favorite part was when the snow fell on top of Peter's head.

Check out the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation at

http://www.ezra-jack-keats.org/.

 

Dear Parents and children,

Thank you for the gift card to Amazon.com.

It was most generous of you.

I am looking forward to navigating around

on the Amazon website soon.

I love the beverage cup too!

Thank you, thank you!!

Mrs. Lyons 



Calling all doctors, nurses....

Our Dramatic Play area will become a Doctor's office for the month of January. Any props you can send in for the children to play with would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Happy New Year to my Kindergarten families!

May the new year bring you good health and much happiness!

Love,

Mrs. Lyons

Dear Kindergarten Families,

Warm wishes for happiness, love and peace on Hanukkah and always.

Love,

Mrs. Lyons

First author study... Jan Brett

Author studies are a wonderful way to engage students in the joy of reading. Introducing kindergarteners to authors opens new doors of understanding that "real" people write and illustrate books. This thought alone inspires students to dream of becoming famous authors and artists. Most early readers have limited schema for specific authors, types of texts, and different text features. Conducting author studies introduces these concepts to students in a fun and meaningful way. Children need to be taught how to activate their prior knowledge when they encounter a book by a favorite author. In addition to learning about authors and illustrators, students hone their comprehension skills as they compare, analyze, and synthesize information about an author's style. These skills are demonstrated as students make relevant text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections.

Jan Brett has an awesome website that you should check out. Have fun! http://www.janbrett.com/

The ABC's of Thanksgiving

Thank you all for joining us!

The children were so excited to put on this play for you.

They loved making their costumes and learning their lines.                

We practiced our songs every day.

This presentation was a simple way of sharing all the interesting details we have been learning about the Pilgrims and their journey to the new world.

A special thank you to Lisa for organizing the "after party" and to all of the families who sent in items for our celebration.

 Meet the friendly Wampanoags.

 Good morrow Pilgrims.

 Joined together for the harvest feast.

Ready to tell the story.