Mo Willems & Speech Bubbles

First and foremost, tomorrow Friday, February 7th is Pajama Day!  When the announcement came yesterday, there was quite a lot of excitement in the room!  Your child can wear pjs and bring some slippers to wear in the classroom, if he/she likes.


Now, onto the good stuff.  This week during writing, we learned how to add speech bubbles to give our readers more details in our narrative books.  We explored an author who uses these speech bubbles often in his work, Mo Willems.  Click here to learn more about him with your child!

So far, we have read Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog and Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.






Our Ks LOVE his work and laughter fills the room when we read his stories.  He has many more books with the Pigeon, as well as a series of Piggie & Elephant books (we haven't gotten to those yet!).  Go check some out from the library to enjoy at home with your child this week! :)
Want to see some of his books?  Click here!



So, after we learned about what Mo does, we tried it in our own writing.  Take a look at some examples:

Here, Ciaran was writing about when he went to Lego Land.  In his speech bubble he writes, "Yes."  He must have been pretty excited!

Here, Toby writes about when he moved.  We drove and we drove.

Looks like it must have been a long drive!

Here, Emma is writing about being at the park and watching the boats go by.

She says, "Look at the boats!"