Friday, December 5, 2025

Ezra Jack Keats Author Study

                                             


We have had a busy week reading stories written by Ezra Jack Keats!  Here are some of the important things we did… 

   We engaged in an Ezra Jack Keats Author Study. He broke the color barrier in children’s literature with the mainstream success of The Snowy Day in 1962.  He believed that all children should be able to see themselves in the books they love. We agree!

Our centers this week focused on reading and writing CVC words and sight words, playing various learning games, and completing activities based off of Keats' stories The Snowy Day and Whistle for Willie. 

During Reading, we visualized the poem "It Fell in the City". We discussed which words helped us make pictures in our minds.  We also used the illustrations in the story Red Sled to discuss what was happening in the book. We echo read with attention to characters' feelings to build oral fluency and discussed the typography to build our concepts of print. We practiced visualizing while reading independently.  Finally, we learned these vocabulary words: grasp, observe, evening, and noiseless. 

In Phonics, we revisited the sounds and letters: Bb, Ii, Ff, and Cc. We learned two new power words: my and by.  We read a story titled Can it Fit? and wrote about the story. We continued working on word families, medial sounds, blending, and segmenting. 

In Writing, we heard and discussed good writing.  We wrote about our feelings and told our ideas orally before writing. We worked on writing from left to write and leaving spaces between our words.  We also used our word wall to help us.  We were introduced to three new power words: feel and when. 

In this week’s Second Steps lesson, we learned that kindness is a way to show people that they care and that doing kind acts can make both the giver and the receiver feel good. We shared personal examples and discussed how we felt when they gave or received kind acts. Help your child think of a kind act they can do for someone and support them in carrying it out. With your child, discuss how they think the receiver of the kind act felt. Ask your child how they felt doing a kind act for someone.

Looking ahead...

Early Release Day 12/19

Winter Break 12/22-1/5

Interactive Writing about our Snow Day





Science- predicting if something with sink or float

Science- testing if it will sink or float



Our Prevent Ed lesson with Ms. Jill- she taught us about sharing. 

Reading- drawing what we visualized after listening to our poem-It Fell in the City



Phonics


Centers





Sweet friends

 
Our Mystery Reader this week was Elliott's mom! We loved hearing SuperWorm!





Writing


Sharing our writing



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