Wilma loves practicing writing the letters she knows and is always asking how to spell the names of people that are important to her. Last week Wilma brought in some writing she had been working on at home:
Ms. Alison chose this piece for Wilma's portfolio because it shows her development as an emergent writing. Wilma is learning how to form upper and lower case letters and is exploring how individual sounds and letters connect to make words.
Wilma has demonstrated a big commitment to learning English since she arrived at ISS. She enjoys repeating songs that we sing and phrases from stories that we read to her friends and incorporating them into her play.
She often self-selects books from the classroom library during free play time and reads them with our stuffed animals. She looks carefully at the illustrations and uses them to follow the plot of stories.
This week Wilma has taken action by using an iPad app called Skitch to document our classroom environment and play with photography.
All of these activities are examples of Wilma's high level of independence in learning.
Near the end of our first unit of inquiry 'Who We Are', we had a chance to "show what we know". We used the 'Draw & Tell app' on our iPads to show the important people in our lives and explain how they have influenced us.
In a celebration of the International Day of Peace on September 21, Kindergarten 1 shared their ideas of what peace is with the whole school through a song and a video in the assemblies. Wilma thinks peace is . . .