Ezra’s First Book
The Kindergartners at Aveson have time each day for Writer’s Workshop and the kids love it. Even Ezra, who barely wrote his name until this summer, is very proud of his authorship. The school encourages writing without regard to spelling — and asks that parents don’t correct the kids’ spelling either. Correct spelling will come; the point now is to get them writing. And it works. Ezra used to be very self-conscious of his writing (both spelling and how his letters look) but that is no longer the case.
We had our first goal-setting conference with his teacher this week and we got to bring home his first book. Here it is. My favorite is “KONPOST” with the picture of our compost bin. The “TNT” is pretty good, too. He’s definitely in a Road Runner and Coyote phase, so there’s lots of dynamite exploding. The day he wrote “dynamite exploding” (however creatively) he was so excited. He rarely gives me any details of his school day (without a lot of prodding) but that day he couldn’t wait to tell me.