All The Places To Love

To begin our Writer's Workshop this year,  our class has been discussing how writer's take their own experiences and memories to write their own stories. We also discuss that in kindergarten we write stories about things we know and that have happened to us in our own lives. This helps us to add lots of details to our writing. (This is part of our Common Core writing standards for students to narrate a single event that happened to them through drawings, dictation and writing.)

During Writer's Workshop, we read the book, All the Places to Love by Patricia MacLachlan. This book has wonderful, detailed illustrations of all the places the little boy and his family loves best on their farm. In the end, the little boy cannot wait to begin to share his favorite places with his new little sister.

After reading the book, we discussed the places that we love best and a place we might want to share with someone in our own lives. We came up with some really great ideas, some of them are...

After brainstorming, we then began writing about our own place we love best. This early in kindergarten, we're looking for students to add details to their drawings, but don't expect lots of writing (or much more than one letter for each word!). Below are a few places we love best with lots of details in our drawings - and even a few labels!

My little sister is lying on a towel and I'm in a chair. I'm at the beach!

I was at Virginia for Easter. I had an egg hunt with my family and Eric and Emily.