Science Notebooks can be useful tools, even with young students who are just learning to read and write. See how kindergarten teacher Kathryn Kaatz incorporated science writing and drawing as she took her students on “A Walk in the ‘Tall, Tall Grass'” after being inspired by Denise Fleming’s book entitled, In the Tall, Tall Grass (1991).
In his book Using Science Notebooks in Elementary Classrooms, author Michael P. Klentschy offers gives useful suggestions for sentence starters and writing prompts that can be used with young children.
What are your best ideas for incorporating science writing and drawing with your young observers?