“Use acombination of drawing, dictating, and writing to composeinformative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing aboutand supply some information about the topic.”
What better way tonurture the above goal than with this nature book! Children will have fun making it, drawing in it, labelingpictures, writing in it, reading it, and then taking it home to share withtheir families.
First, you willhave to go on a stick hunt. Eachchild will need a stick approximately 7” long. (If you ask them to find a stick that’s as long as theirelbow to their wrist that should work.) Next, fold three sheets of paper in half. Punch 2” from each end as shown. Push one end of a rubber band through the top hole andinsert one end of the stick through the loop. Insert the other end of the rubber band through the bottomhole and slide it in the stick.
*You can use thebook to follow up a nature walk, to record plant growth, as a journal forscience experiments, for nature vocabulary words, for taking notes as anon-fiction book is read, or for creative writing.
