Share and Prepare

I'm linking up (yay summer linkys!) with Once Upon A Classroom for her Share and Prepare Linky.

This linky is such a great idea.  You get to showcase one of your products that you use at the beginning of the year and others get to come and find great ideas for the beginning of the year and can start to prepare a little at a time! How great!

So I am showcasing Create A Setting. This is a great tool for Kinders. At the beginning of the year, most kinders have a hard time when it comes to writing. Either they don't know what to write about, or they are unsure what writing should even look like.  We always start the year off with narrative writing, it's so much easier for them to connect when they can write about themselves! So we start off talking about characters and settings. We discuss and draw different body styles of characters. And then we move on to setting. My kiddos know when it comes to writing, our picture needs at least one character and a five part setting. We discuss what things can help us to know what the setting might be and how having those things can help our reader to understand our writing even more.

So with all that in mind, I created this product so that my kiddos could practice creating different settings and practice our five part setting rule as we grew as writers.

Each setting has two versions, one that is a box like what may be on most writing papers and one that is in a polaroid picture frame that could be used for a writing bulletin board! I am putting this item on sale for the rest of today and tomorrow!

Come check it out as you prepare (at least a little) for the next school year!