Sounds and Hearing

Today we read a non-fiction book called Shh... A Book About Hearing.

After reading and discussing how sound helps us to understand our world we went exploring outside and used our sense of hearing.  Wow! Did we hear many sounds!  
Upon returning to the classroom we wrote about our discoveries.
We wrote using an uppercase first letter, finger spaces, lowercase letters in our sentences, and making sure our picture matched our words.
This lesson lead into a discussion about visualizing. Some of the children said they heard sounds, but they could not see the thing making the sound. For example, the jet, cars, horns.
I explained to them that this is where we would use our schema...REMEMBER SCHEMA!?? Yes! They did, and visualizing, making a picture in our brain.  
They were then able to draw what they heard.
It was a great lesson.

Thank you to Allie who shared with us a story that she wrote for fun at home today.
Please encourage daily writing at home.  If we have time during the day I love to let the kids share what they are practicing at home!