This week I was in a kindergarten class at my school, sitting next to a girl who was writing in her journal. Her teacher’s instructions were to write anything she wanted to write, using words she knew from having studied them throughout the year.
The girl wrote the following possibly sad? revealing? story. She needed help spelling the words “drinking,” “ambulance,” and “medicine,” but aside from that she wrote everything independently and with quiet confidence.
Here’s her story; I watched it emerge word by word:
Daddy is sick because he was drinking something that made him sick, but he said it was good. My mom took my dad to an ambulance and they said to give him medicine and we went home and my mom gave him medicine and he was feeling better.
I am always impressed that students in our school are so comfortable with us that they write openly about anything.
To read a stunning collection of poems written last year by students in another kindergarten class at my school, click here:
And be prepared to have your socks knocked off!
