Week Preview and First Home Project Idea

Over the course of the next few weeks we will be developing our ideas for a personal narrative. This week's words for building a robust vocabulary are: unique, interest, cheerful, genuine, and prefer. When discussing your child's interests try to use these words in conversation.

We read a short biography of Alexander Graham Bell. An autobiography is a personal narrative told with ideas/facts about ourselves in chronological order. In order to develop an autobiography, it may first be helpful to develop a timeline. One project a first grader may want to share with classmates and display in the classroom is a personal timeline. A personal timeline may include significant events in a person's life displayed in chronological order. These events might include trips, interesting "firsts" (haircut, costume, ice cream), sibling births, etc. These may be displayed physically on paper, digitally on a flash drive, or with links to a Web tool/application.