“Use a
combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose
informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about
and supply some information about the topic.”
What better way to
nurture the above goal than with this nature book! Children will have fun making it, drawing in it, labeling
pictures, writing in it, reading it, and then taking it home to share with
their families.
First, you will
have to go on a stick hunt. Each
child will need a stick approximately 7” long. (If you ask them to find a stick that’s as long as their
elbow to their wrist that should work.)
Next, fold three sheets of paper in half. Punch 2” from each end as shown. Push one end of a rubber band through the top hole and
insert one end of the stick through the loop. Insert the other end of the rubber band through the bottom
hole and slide it in the stick.
*You can use the
book to follow up a nature walk, to record plant growth, as a journal for
science experiments, for nature vocabulary words, for taking notes as a
non-fiction book is read, or for creative writing.