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  • Ka 'Umeke Ka'eo Public Charter School
  • Hilo, HI
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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My Kindergarten focuses heavily on reading our own writing. We draw or color in a picture of the word of the day and then write about it. Our daily writing practice is made into a book every 2 to 3 weeks. I have found that when my students have nice art supplies with lots of colors to create vibrant pictures for their books, they become excited and motivated to write about it. The requested markers and colored pencils will give the children creative choices for coloring their books. We will use the requested construction paper as book covers. We practice reading our books in class and then my students read the books to their parents as homework. My more advanced students teach their friends how to write more advanced sentences by sharing their pages as we work on our books. We make 1 to 2 pages every day during our Hawaiian literacy writing block. The students love to share their work with each other. After recess, I pick a few pages of the days writing and drawing work, project it on the wall, then the student leads the class reading their writing while the class repeats after the student leader. The less advanced students immediately emulate the level of the work of their friends so they can lead the class the next day. By the end of the year, my students will have made a small library of emergent reader texts documenting their hard work and progress. Creating a book from our daily assignments gives the students a motivating reason to improve penmanship and draw and color their best pictures on a consistent basis. Lots of nice colors and art supplies to share is an essential element in making our writing and reading practice stimulating and fun!

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My Kindergarten focuses heavily on reading our own writing. We draw or color in a picture of the word of the day and then write about it. Our daily writing practice is made into a book every 2 to 3 weeks. I have found that when my students have nice art supplies with lots of colors to create vibrant pictures for their books, they become excited and motivated to write about it. The requested markers and colored pencils will give the children creative choices for coloring their books. We will use the requested construction paper as book covers. We practice reading our books in class and then my students read the books to their parents as homework. My more advanced students teach their friends how to write more advanced sentences by sharing their pages as we work on our books. We make 1 to 2 pages every day during our Hawaiian literacy writing block. The students love to share their work with each other. After recess, I pick a few pages of the days writing and drawing work, project it on the wall, then the student leads the class reading their writing while the class repeats after the student leader. The less advanced students immediately emulate the level of the work of their friends so they can lead the class the next day. By the end of the year, my students will have made a small library of emergent reader texts documenting their hard work and progress. Creating a book from our daily assignments gives the students a motivating reason to improve penmanship and draw and color their best pictures on a consistent basis. Lots of nice colors and art supplies to share is an essential element in making our writing and reading practice stimulating and fun!

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