Welcome back to a new year! 2015 is going to be a great one. We've spent a lot of time communicating by talking with each other and experiencing books and media together, and now we're going to learn how to communicate with each other in writing. Based on their stage, each child has been placed in a Writing Club that lets them focus on what they need to develop next. Some will be working at drawing pictures with detail, using a mirror to remember all our body parts and what we're wearing. Others will be able to start labeling their work using sounds they know. Another group will be able to print the whole label using beginning, middle, and end sounds, and yet another will be printing full sentences. As the year goes on, we'll change groups a lot as we work towards one or two full sentences. We use something called Planning Lines to make it easy and to be our 'scaffolding'. Whatever stage we are at, one thing is the same: we use the calendar and our memory to visualize something that happened in our own past, and plan, talk, do, and retell about it. We'll make samples available here. Enjoy the pics below! We're proud of what we can already do!