Exit Tickets and Compare/Contrast

Last week we included exit tickets into our daily routine.  Exit tickets are used by teachers to quickly assess a skill taught, survey students, or just gain general feedback.  We are using our exit tickets for in Kinderland for a couple of different reasons.

• We are practicing publishing our writing for a greater audience.
• We want others to read them and strike up conversations about the cool learning happening in KF.
• Mrs. Fisher wants to know what learning was most impactful.

So every day at 3:00 each kinder gets their exit tickets (they are speech bubbles that hang on our lockers), and write what learning activity, subject, or skill they liked best that day.  Then we hang them back on our lockers for everyone else to read and ask us about!  I am looking for trends when I read them, so I know what to plan more of!  Student voice is something that I am really trying to hear more of when I sit down to lesson plan.  The more voice they have in their learning will usually produce more engagement and deeper learning.  When your kinder gets home, ask them what their speech bubble said and strike up a conversation about the awesome things happening every day in Kinderland!

We also have been working on comparing and contrasting texts.  The most common and visual way we have been doing this has been with the Venn diagram.  In this picture you can see my lovely assistants are showing you the texts that we used to compare and contrast.  We picked two Cinderella texts.  Marissa is holding Cinderella by James Marshall.  This was our traditional storyline that we enjoyed in our read aloud time.  Kasie is holding up one of our classroom iPads that has a YouTube version from Story Circle at Cool School channel that is retelling Cynthia (a Cinderella fractured fairytale).  We like to read different types of texts, and that includes audio.  YouTube has TONS of audio texts that are so enjoyable for kinders.  If you need more ideas, please check out my Pinterest board Online Books (https://www.pinterest.com/kfishwater/online-books/) for more options, or search any book title or topic on YouTube!  Enjoy!