Sophia, the Author

I wanted to write a quick note tonight because Sophie did such an amazing thing at school and I just have to show it off.

For the past 6 weeks or so the Reception classes have been working on various fairy tales and all of their learning was shaped around the stories they read and learned. First of all, I was amazed at how the teachers could mold an entire curriculum around something they let the kids choose. Math, writing, spelling, reading, computer, psychosocial, etc. They did the Three Little Pigs, Rapunzel (Soph's fav), Jack and the Beanstalk, Three Billy Goat's Gruff, The Enormous Turnip (new one for me) and the Runaway Pancake (another new one).

Anyway, the culmination was that each child come up with and write their own fairy tale. The teacher worked with each child to come up with a theme and then make a beginning, middle and end to their story. Each child wrote the story out and drew pictures that matched it.

Today was a day where parents could go to the classroom and look through the kids' learning journals. These are binders that the teachers put together of the children's art, writing, etc and it also shows how each child is meeting the goals set out for them at the beginning of the school year. It really is brilliant and it gives the parents something to take home at the end of the year that's full of their kids' accomplishments. In here was Sophie's story and she was so proud to show me.
She introduced it by saying, "Mom, guess what? I'm an author. I wrote a book."

She made the title page in computer class.
"Princess Rose was playing with Ela in the castle"   (Ela is a fairy, hence the wings :)

"Suddenly, Princess Rose saw Ela was trapped."  (Ela is in a cage. Rose is saying "help!")

"Princess Rose went to get another fairy. She freed Ela."

How great, right?? :) Proud momma over here. :)