Some teachers also publish classroom news. The school handbook contains general information, school policies, homework and discipline expectations. Teachers want them to understand that words express ideas, which can be written down and read by others. During the year students work with words and stories in many different ways. Students and teachers write group stories.
Individual students write stories in their journals.
They begin with pictures and soon start writing letter sounds and words. They learn to predict what will happen next and to retell stories in their own words. By the end of the year children recognize and write upper and lower case letters. They also identify letter sounds. Kindergarten students also do Math.