We are Authors!

We have been working so hard on our first books.  During writer's workshop, I have been reading many books to help kids understand that some books are storybooks (fiction) and some are all about books (non-fiction).

Students got to choose if they were going to make a storybook or an all about book to teach us.  I modeled how to tell a story using the pictures since many of us aren't the kind of writers who write words YET.

Students persevered for many days to add colors and details to their books.  We looked at many books that our fellow crew members were writing.  We noticed that books that had 5 or more colors were easier to read and that details helped us understand the book.

Today we loved sharing our books with our fellow kindergarten crew in the library.  Each student read his/her book in the library to celebrate our hard work.  We will be sending these books home in Thursday folders.