In Year 2, we have been reading and exploring the book, Nate the Great by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat. We have really enjoyed learning how to be a detective like Nate and discovering what tools he uses in his investigations.
Read on to see how the children invented mysteries for Nate to solve and wrote letters to Nate! Watch the videos to hear some of the children reading their letters.
As the characters from the book were introduced, the class did a lot of role play pretending to be Nate solving a problem. It’s been really fun and exciting for the children to brainstorm, create skits and act them out!
As we started to read the book, we decided to come up with imaginary investigations for Nate to solve for us. We learned how Nate always writes a note for his mom to let her know where he is going so we decided to explore letter writing, with a spin! In the videos, some children have read their letters asking Nate to help solve their mysteries.
Please pop by our classroom to see our board display on Nate the Great, and read some of the other letters the children wrote.
What a fun topic to begin the school year off with!
