101 Free Kindergarten Writing Prompts for Journal Writing
Are your kindergarten students ready to start writing? These free Kindergarten writing prompts are a great way to develop their writing skills and help them learn more about each other at the same time!
If you give your students daglig writing prompts, save yourself a big headache and build a writing station! This is the perfect way to help your young learners become independent writers while still supporting their developing needs.
My Kindergarten writing station includes 26 vocabulary mats with pictures you can display in your writing center, making it easy for your students to find the spelling for their favourite animal or the weather! There are even sentence starters to help your students write complete sentences.
This is one of my favourite tools; it just makes the writing process so much easier! It's also a fun way to teach your students to use their resources. Every Kindergarten classroom should have one!
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As you have probably already experienced at some point in your teaching career, it can be a major challenge to have your students quietly find their seats and have their materials out, let alone have them complete a warm-up exercise.
With seemingly less and less time and more curriculum to cover in class, it’s important to maximize these first few minutes, and that’s why journaling for just 10 minutes at the uppstart of class every day can both eliminate wasted class time and (more importantly) create thinkers and writers.
Benefits of Daily Journaling
Daily journaling is an excellent chance for students to conduct a “mental warmup” as well as an opportunity to become reflective and introspective thinkers. Not only does daily journaling eliminate wasted time at the beginning of class, but it also gets students thinking before they even arrive to class.
Knowing ahead of time that they’ll have to produce some piece of writing, whether it’s a few lines of poetry, potential lyrics to
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80+ Journal Prompts for Kids for Creativity & Self-Discovery
Grateful Living 6 min read
Open up their infinite worlds!
This is a fun post for me. I love to connect with my inner child by making things for kids. You know, I often realize that kids are so much smarter and more thoughtful than we give them credit for.
Recently, I did a prompt exercise with my younger cousins between ages 6 to 13. The first exercise was to share one thing that they felt grateful for at that moment and the second was to appreciate a quality that they liked in everyone else.
Then my aunt asked them to share one thing that they want from their parents which they feel that they don't have.
It was the very first time that I got to learn about the deeper thoughts of my little cousins. The youngest, Reyansh said that he feels grateful for nature and all the beauty that it brings around him.
Answering my aunt's question, his sister Sonakshi, aged 12 said she wants her mother to understand her
