Thinking and Learning Binder Poems

Today we added our first poem into our Thinking and Learning Binders. These binders will house all of the poetry we learn throughout the year, our letter and sound knowledge, number recognition, word recognition and writing samples. As we learn more poems, your reader will add them to their binders. We work to circle "heart words" as we learn them. This week we focused on the words "I", "a", "we", "see" and "the". Poetry is a great way for readers to fall in love with language. As they recite these well loved poems and songs, readers begin to notice words they know. Once that starts to happen, a learners confidence builds, they become risk takers and move forward as readers in the comfort of our well loved verses.
We worked hard to use gentle hands and learn to open and close our binders safely. We learned how to put the poems in the front of the binders and where to locate writing samples and learning assessments. I cannot believe how quietly and carefully all of these thinkers worked!

Here is the poem we have been studying...

After circling all of the new "Heart Words", readers are encouraged to illustrate their poems. They were so careful to draw pictures of their friends on the back.

😍