I hope you all got out to enjoy the beautiful weekend we had! In honor of the first day of fall passing this past Saturday we have embarked on a new writing project this week. Students will be compiling their own non-fiction story throughout the coming weeks as they track the changing of the season.
Yesterday we went outside to collect our first specimen, students gathered leaves and petals on dated papers. Tomorrow we will be using labels and illustration to detail the conditions of the weather and observations students make about being outside. This is such an exciting time of year in Vermont, and I hope to celebrate this seasonal shift throughout the month with students by collecting surrounding examples of the changes and tracking what we see.
This is going to be a great opportunity for students to gain experience with the difference between fiction and non-fiction text, data collection, and telling stories about the natural world around them. Yesterday we read Lois Ehlert's Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf, we will be looking at a lot of her books this month as well as Gail Gibbons because they are both authors who exemplify so well what we are learning!
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