Author Visit with Jason Chin

Today, our students traveled to the City Campus to meet Jason Chin, an author/illustrator of non-fiction pictures books. He read his book Gravity and talked about how he came up with the idea for the story and how it evolved over time. We also got a chance to see him do a quick drawing of some of the items from the book. After we spent some time with our visiting author, the Pre-K students got to meet up with their city counterparts for some exploring of their playground and playing with old and new friends.

 

Dinosaur Research

Dinosaur Research in Pre-K at WTFinishing up our last week of dinosaur study, many children are still collecting data about their personal research choices.  They are choosing facts that they find interesting to write about in their journals.  Some of the children have taken to this activity with gusto, writing new facts a few times a week.  Others become interested when they see their friends writing about their dinosaurs.

This project has a few exciting by-products.  The children are finding out that books contain much more than simply stories.  Sometimes it comes as a surprise that anything you want to know about can be found in a book.  (Many children are sure that most of the information that is available comes from the computer!)  We are also provided with the opportunity to explore indexes, table of contents, and glossaries in an authentic way.  Later, when we collect information from each child’s study and create a compilation of information, the children will experience the joy of being the “expert” in their own research.