Reflecting on how our writing has changed this year

What did kindergartners notice about how their writing has changed this year?

• In the beginning of the year, I spelled pumpkin like "a-kin" but now I spell it "p-u-m-p-k-i-n."  Now I know all the sounds in the word!
• At the beginning of the year, when I spelled some words, the a turned into the b. Now I know my letters better than before.
• At the beginning of the year, the lines were crooked when I wrote and I'm like "Uh, how do I read this?" Now my lines are straight and I can read all the words I wrote.
• When I was reading my writing from the first day of kindergarten, one word was "tuh" but it wasn't a real word.  Now I know what words I write.
• At the beginning of kindergarten, I didn't know how to spell so many words, but I know how to spell alot!!!!!!!!!!!
• At the beginning of kindergarten, I was sounding words out and I didn't write alot.  Now I write alot.
• In the beginning of the year, I thought b was d and d was b, and at the end of the year b was b and d was d. 
• At the beginning of the year, we sometimes forgot to use capital letters at the beginning of sentences and periods at the end of sentences.  Now, we know to put capital letters at the beginning of sentences and periods at the end of sentences.
• At the beginning of the year, some of us forgot to add spaces between words, but now we all use spaces.
• At the beginning of the year, sometimes we forgot illustrations, or our illustrations didn't have color or details, but now we have more details in our illustrations.

At the beginning of the year, I didn't know how to read.  But now I know how to read very well.   

How does being able to read help us become better writers?

• If you write something, you can read a book and that tells you more to put in your writing and you can write more sentences.  
• If you can read more, you can learn more words that you never knew how to spell and you never heard of, and books can help you.  Alot!
• If you have a word that you want to write and you don't know how to spell it, and its in the book, then you know its spelled that way or a different way.