Feelings Chart

Feelings are important in kindergarten. We talk about our feelings when solving problems with friends. We speak of the feelings favorite characters have in the books we read and at writing time we try to show and tell how we are feeling in our stories. This chart is a tool we use to help us remember that we can have many different kinds of feelings.

Favorite Book About Feelings 

I LOVE this book In My Heart A Book of Feelings by Jo Witke. There are so many teaching possibilities with this book. Each page shares different feeling words and SHOWS how the little girl feels. My class noticed that each page has a color that connects with the feeling too.  The illustrations in this book are beautiful. 

click here for feeling words 

Writing Workshop

Here are some of the anchor charts that I have been creating with my class during writing workshop this week. 

 What tools do we need at our tables?
{We did some Interactive Writing}

Reading Response

Here are some anchor charts we made to go with 
our reading response.

The kids can find the title on the whiteboard to copy.
We are working on telling why we like a book or may not like a book. 

Click below to hear some responses

Writing Workshop Anchor Charts

 Writing Workshop

This post will share with you some of the anchor charts we are using in my class.

You can see from the chart that I have drawn, tell your partner your story. I try to encourage a lot more storytelling before writing. I think when kids start to draw it helps them to talk about their ideas.

This is along the same idea as the first chart,  but you can see how I am adding in talking and rereading our stories. I am also adding what to do when you are done! 

 I  always want to stress REREADING.

Spelling 

 We talk a lot about using bubble gum spelling. I have also heard it called ghost spelling. 

For this lesson, I had my class work with a partner and spelled an unknown word using bubble gum spelling. 

At large group time, we modeled what this would look like with a partner. 

 The kids loved doing this! Everyone was confident trying to spell words, and that's my goal.  

Alphabet Anchor Chart

 I saw a similar anchor chart in a Pam Allyn book, and I loved it! I often talk about using the alphabet chart, but I never thought of making an anchor chart. I did do a mini-lesson on how you can use an alphabet chart to help you write a letter or figure out a sound. 

 I am always using an alphabet chart to help when conferencing with kids.

They may know the sound but don't know how to write the letter. They may have no idea what letter makes a particular sound and I can use the chart to teach them.