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Across the Middle
Practice hand and arm motions that go across a baby’s middle to help build muscles and skills that prepare them for writing.
All About ME
Make each child a “Book About ME” with family photos and magazine pictures of favorite things. Encourage family members to read the book with their child.
Boat Book
Have children draw, dictate, or write something that surprised them as they were exploring making objects and float and sink. Compile the pages to make a group book.
Draw and Write Together: A Story Map
Create a story map to tell the sequence of the story Samantha on a Roll by Linda Ashman.
Draw and Write Together: Boat Characters
Have each child choose a boat character in Toy Boat and continue the story.
Draw and Write Together: Building Riddles
Invite children to create riddles that describe materials and tools.
Draw and Write Together: City Sounds
Create a number chart with children by using the illustrations and text from City Lullaby. Include the numbers, the noise makers, and the descriptive sound words.
Draw and Write Together: Colors All Around Poem
Write a class poem incorporating children’s observations of different colors.
Draw and Write Together: “Colors” Chart
Encourage children to share what they know about colors and record their discoveries on a chart.
Draw and Write Together: Dear Friends
Have children draw, dictate, or write a letter to a family member about something they liked in the story The Little Red Hen.
Draw and Write Together: Favorite Sounds
Have children draw a picture that shows the object that makes their favorite sound. Have them complete sentence frames to identify the sound.
Draw and Write Together: Fiesta Foods
Describe a fiesta and make a “Fiesta Foods” book by having children draw pictures of plant foods that begin with the letter “F.”
Draw and Write Together: Hunting for Colors
Have children go on a hunt looking for specific colors around the room.
Draw and Write Together: “I Am a Fine Musician”
Teach children the song “I Am a Fine Musician.” Reinforce the directionality of print by using a written chart of the lyrics.
Draw and Write Together: If I Planted a Seed
Children choose a plant they would like to grow and illustrate, dictate or write about it.
Draw and Write Together: It Floats! It Sinks!
Have children draw a picture of their favorite object from “Fish Museum.” Help them dictate or write a caption about if the object floats or sinks.
Draw and Write Together: It’s a Whatchamacallit
Have children generate rhyme words as they dictate or write to complete the poem “It’s a Whatchamacallit.”
Draw and Write Together: Letter to the Big Bad Wolf
Have children write, draw, or dictate a letter to the big bad wolf.
Draw and Write Together: More of “Our Three Little Pigs”
Have children finish writing and illustrating their version of The Three Little Pigs. Help children put the pictures in the correct sequence and bind the pages into a booklet.
Draw and Write Together: Music Poem
Write a music poem with children. Have children dictate how music makes them feel to complete the poem.