Pooh

One would think that Winnie the Pooh would be an easy, sweet story to read to kindergarteners....well it is such a hard one instead. The story switches characters, narrators, and is very vocabulary rich. We used several different chapters to practice asking questions, vocabulary, and story elements. At the beginning we rated ourselves. This corresponds nicely to One Teacher At A Time...by rating ourselves to the objective. I remind myself constantly that these babies are 5 and 6 years old. Sometimes they surprise me greatly by thinking and doing things that you wouldn't expect from kids this young, but then that sets me up to expecting me to think that they will act differently than other 5 and 6 years old.... But overall they seemed to get it... even kids who struggle where able to comprehend this very difficult text.