"It is Time for Reader's Workshop"

That's how we begin our song to start Reader's Workshop. Last week we began making our own choices at Reader's Workshop. The children love having these choices and taking ownership of their learning! (Don't we all love having some control over our lives?) They can choose from Word Work, Work on Writing, Listen to Reading, ABC Work, Computer, and Art Work throughout the week, but they do have to do all of them each week. Then at least once a week they meet with the Queen for Guided Reading to work on those "Read the Word" skills. (and I love reading with them!). Check out last week's action at Reader's Workshop below:

Robert is matching capital and lowercase letters at ABC Work.

 Doria is working on letter skills at Computer.

 Jacob is writing names at Word Work.

 Chelsea is practiing pointing to words and reading at ABC Work.

Rose and Bella are practicing the "look at the picture" strategy at Guided Reading with the Queen.

Star Student of the Week

October 1

No surprise Rose was our Star Student last week. She is kind, helpful and always tries her best. Way to go, Rose!!!

Word's Out!!

Guess who found out the awesome job we're doing with building our stamina in reading? That's right, our principal, Mrs. Kornblum! She came down this past Monday to check it out for herself. She even got in the groove by reading her own book.

Come see us during Read to Self -- We'll be the ones with our nose stuck in a book!

We Like to Read! We Do! We Do!

We can read in a chair or in a tub. We can read under a table or on a pillow. We can read anywhere!

Last week we began some of our most important work for the year. It's called Read to Self. Why do kindergartners want to read to themselves? Well, they know that to be a good reader the most important thing to do is to practice reading! They also want to get smarter and build big brain muscles.

And best of all, it's FUN!

We can read 3 ways -- by reading the pictures, by retelling a familiar story and by reading the words.

Check out our fabulous readers doing Read to Self.

 Brayden is rocking to read in the rocking chair.

 Robert is excellent at retelling Little Red Riding Hood.

 Rub a Dub Dub, Rose  and Ja"Kori read in a tub!

 Evan is under the table. We call it the cave!

 Sanaa chills out by her pillow.

 Jakai is on the road with his reading.

 Bella relaxes on the reading bench.

 Lyzaiah is swamped with reading in the alligator chair.

 Doria definitely knows how to hibernate with a good book.

 Colby is running away with reading the Gingerbread Baby story.

 Gabby has her brain in motion with her Alphamotion book.

 Jacob is showing big attitude toward reading while under Little Daddy.

Ramira is in position to read Alphamotion.

And how do we celebrate our best work in reading? By dancing the Tooty Ta, of course!

Woof! Woof! for Reading

Last Wednesday we kicked off our path to reading with a parade! The Reading Celebration was a winner with all of kindergarten thinking big about reading -- Big as in Clifford the Big Red Dog!

Check out those ears and everyone wearing red. Thanks to moms and dads for 100% participation.

Run, Run As Fast As You Can - We Went Looking for our Gingerbread Men!

We looked in Mrs. Brown's first grade class - no gingerbread!We asked Mrs. Adams, a kindergarten teacher - no gingerbread

We asked Mrs. Wright, a fifth grade teacher - no gingerbread!

We went in Mrs. Ryan and Ross' room, 2 fourth grade teachers - no gingerbread!

We asked Mrs. Kephart, a third grade teacher - no gingerbread!

We checked in the offce with Mrs. Kornblum, our principal - no gingerbread!

Mrs. Donnelly, a fourth grade teacher was SHOCKED to find out there were unruly gingerbread at Beauclerc!

Finally, Bella spotted them in the place they love best - the library!

Last week we read the story, The Gingerbread Man. To give the story a real live feel we decorated some of our own gingerbread cookies. Then, OH NO! The story came to life as unfortunately our gingerbread men ran away just like in the story! We looked (and sniffed) all over the school until we finally found them in the media center! Then they went the way of all gingerbread men -- we ate them.