What do you know HOW TO do?

We are just wrapping up our 4 week study on Functional writing. As I like to tell the students - "We put the FUN in Functional" in Kindergarten at NBE! The students have been telling how to do or make something that they are experts at in their writing. We have discussed all of the important components of a great functional writing piece that meets the Kindergarten Functional Standard - W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic. The student will write in a variety of informational/expository forms (e.g., rules, summaries, recipes, notes/messages, labels, instructions, graphs/tables). They have learned how to title their work, include 4 steps or more in their piece, use transition words (first, next, then and last) and label the picture to match their writing. We have a class full of experts on many different "How To" topics! As a class we have written about How to Brush Our Teeth, Paint, Make a S'more, Put on Socks and Shoes, Get Ready for Lunch and many other exciting things that we know how to do. One of the students' favorite writing days was when I demonstrated "How to Make Chocolate Milk." After the students assisted in writing the steps, they went back to their seats and made their own chocolate milk. Here are some pictures to give you a glimpse of our "Fun"ctional Writing!