Kindergartners Chapter 1 Summary

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This week we started our Kindergarten Literacy program. Kindergartners had a lovely time together learning and sharing during these classes. On Monday, we started with discussing about the practice that we want to follow during our Literacy classes, and it was Respect. We shared three simple practice rules: (1) Respect yourself (2) Respect others (3) Respect the environment Later, we learned about the different parts of a book and how to handle/take care of books, what is an author, what is an illustrator, dedication page, and the title of the book. Children enjoyed listening to the book “How Rocket Learned to Read” by Tad Hill. On Tuesday, we all shared titles of our favorite books and some kindergartners also brought their favorite books to share and showed us their favorite page from those books and explained why it was their favorite page. Children learned about the sight words during this session. They decorated their Literacy bags, which they will start bringing to home from next week to practice and share the things they have learned during Literacy classes. …show more content…

They learned that these stories are passed down from long ago, they are “re-told” and do not come from the author’s own mind, and the characters often include animals with human characteristics like talking and wearing clothes. Children listened to the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff, retold and illustrated by Janet Stevens. The friends followed up the story with a discussion of some human characteristics of the goats (including talking to the big

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