BreakoutEDU, Kindergarten Style!
This fall several of our teachers participated in The Global Read Aloud , working with classrooms across the United States to read the same books and share our thoughts and ideas about them. One such partnership was with Ms. Cain, a librarian in North Dakota who is working with one of our kindergarten teachers, Ms. Thomsen . Our collaboration takes places mainly through Seesaw where we share pictures and thoughts on the books we have read during this project. Ms. Cain suggested doing a BreakoutEDU activity that was created specifically around our Global Read Aloud author study. BreakoutEDU with kindergarten?! I had only done this with adults (and Ms. Thomsen had never even heard about it)! Luckily, I had recently purchased a kit which made this the perfect opportunity to dive right in with students. While the instructions for We Are Readers were well done and thorough I still modified some to make the activity run smoother for our little learners. ...