Kin Writing in Kindergarten Continued...
As I have began my second year of teaching Kindergarten, I made it a personal goal of mine to find a way to make our Kid Writing new and exciting each day! I want students to be inspired and excited about their writing and during the same time, give them exposure to other things that they may not necessarily see.
My idea was to use YouTube to stream Live Camera feeds of different places and different animals all around the world, in order for students to have something new and exciting each day to look at and hopefully write about!
Most recently, our Kindergarten class read a story called "Panda Kindergarten," as a part of our Wonders reading curriculum. As I searched for a live camera to display, I found that the same wildlife reserve that we were reading about in our anchor text, was the same location of the live camera that we used for our Kid Writing.
By using a live camera each day, students have seen different locations around the world, countless different animals, amusement parks, and a variety of other locations around the world, that has proven to be inspiring and have helped to drive our Kid Writing!
I hope you try this out!
This is such a cool topic for the young children, I would love it as an adult. So interesting!
ReplyDeleteStay tuned! I will have a side by side comparison of Kid Writing from the beginning of the school year and now at the end of the school year!
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