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Reading Workshop
In reading, we are using our reading super powers and our reading strategies to help us become even better readers! Our super powers are strategies to help us read. Each day, we review, then learn a new super power which we add to our chart, model then practice. The children read independently first, then with a reading buddy. Our super powers include...
Pointer Power - point to every word on the page as you read!
Super Sight - look at all of the details on every page!
Snap Word Power - read sight words on the pages that we already know and can read in a snap!
Pattern Power - noticing if pages in a book have a repeating pattern!
*GoNoodle has a great video to reinforce this skill, called "Banana, Banana, Meatball!"*
Expression Power - using expression to read with enthusiasm, instead of reading like a robot! *GoNoodle has a great video to reinforce this skill, called "Don't Read Like a Robot!"*
Re-Reading Power - read a book again and again to build fluency!
Picture Power - look at the pictures on the pages to help give you clues about the words!
Our reading strategies are fun and silly ways to help us read those tricky words in books! Every reading strategy correlates with an animal to make it fun and easy to remember! Our reading strategies include...
Eagle Eye - Look at the pictures!
Stretchy Snake - Stretch out the word, saying it slowly to hear all the sounds!
Lips the Fish - Get your lips ready to say the first sound!
Chunky Monkey - Look for chunks or small words you already know!
Flippy Dolphin - Flip the vowel!
Skippy Frog - Skip the word and come back to it!
Tryin' Lion - Keep trying, never give up!
Your child will be bringing home a book on their independent reading level to practice reading weekly at home. Please encourage your child to read the book to you, using these super powers and strategies to help them enjoy reading!
Buddy Reading!
We Are Super Readers!
Read Every Day!
Independently Reading!
Buddy Reading!
Just Right Books!
Writing Workshop
Phonics First
Every week we use a multi sensory approach to practice weekly sight words. This includes, say, whisper, shout the word, clap, pound, tap, stomp, stretch the word, sky write, spell, and write the word on the smart board, individual white boards and then paper.
At the end of each week, we also complete a dictation in which the children write the sounds, words and a sentence they hear me dictate to the class.
We also have a variety of games that the children have the opportunity to play during each day to practice their letter, sound and word identification/recognition and spelling.
Letters we have learned so far: o, d, a, g, c, t, m, l, h, n, i, r, p, u, j, s, ch, f, b, k, sh, e, th, w, v, x, z, wh
Sight Words we have learned so far: a, is, the, me, I, to, like, on, we, can, do, my, at, see, you, in, look, go, it, and, up, am, he, she, went, so, no, are, come, play, was, this, for, had, too, be, as
Your child brought home an individual bag of sight words in the form of flash cards on a ring for easy storage. Please use these to practice the sight words we have learned so far with your child weekly at home. There are many fun ways to practice such as having your child use different writing tools (pencil, crayon, marker, highlighter) to write the words, rainbow write the words using different colors, make it a competition to see how fast your child can read the words, take the cards off the ring temporarily to play a game such as a 'treasure hunt' to find and read the words around the house, read the words with a flashlight in the dark before bed at night! Learning these sight words will help your child become even better readers and writers! Please remember to store these somewhere safe, as it is asked that they are returned at the end of the school year.
Everyday Math
-Addition and Subtraction strategies
-Collecting and representing data
-Estimation
as well as continuing to review all of the concepts previously taught throughout the year.