We started daily Making Words lessons. Making Words is a program that combines phonics and spelling that allows students to explore letter-sound relationships, letter patterns and words. Each activity is fast paced and hands on. In each lesson, students use pre-selected letters to create 10 to 15 words, beginning with short words and continuing with long words. The final word contains all the letters students have that day. Students make the words with their letter cards, then they take turns doing it on the whiteboard for the whole class. They write each word in their Word Work notebooks.
Here is an example of how the lesson progresses:
We learned a fun new game this week that really gets the students reading those sight words at a quick pace. It is called KABOOM! All the Rainbow Words are on sticks in a jar. Students pass the jar around the circle, take a stick out and read the word. The goal is to read as many words as you can before someone pulls out the KABOOM stick. When that happens, all the word sticks must go back into the jar and we start all over again. The kids just love it and it gives them lots of reading practice.
Daily 5 is one of our favourite things and when it is on the schedule, the students get so excited.
They love the independence that it allows them to have.
This week we read a story by Jan Brett called The Snowy Nap. We did some work with parts of the story by creating an anchor chart and a flip book. During Working on Writing, students chose and drew their favourite scene from the hedgehog's window. Then they wrote about it.
Silly snowmen at night!
This week Phys. Ed. was all about getting your heart rate up and being active everyday. We took the Energize Oil Country pledge to be active at least 60 minutes everyday and we log it in our energizer logbook. Each week that we complete 60 minutes of daily activity, we will be entered into a draw for some fabulous Edmonton Oiler Prizes. Here is our pledge:
Having fun in Phys. Ed. doing some active wellness centres!
