-Please make sure students are practicing sight words daily Feel free to move ahead using the sight word lists on the tab above.
Sight words to review from last week: come, in, will, at, you, went, like What you can do at home: Write sight words on flashcards and have students identify them or make a memory game. Have students practice spelling and writing the words as well! - In writer’s workshop, we will continue our “Show and Tell’ unit by writing show and tell stories. We will continue to work on thinking of an idea, telling about all the parts, and beginning to write and draw all the parts. For example, if we are writing a show and tell book about the playground, the parts could be the monkey bars, the slide, and the tunnel. On the first page students would draw and write about the monkey bars, on the second page students would draw and write about the slide. The last page student would draw and write about the tunnel. To challenge students, I will have them begin working on an introduction page which grabs the readers attention and a conclusion page that sums everything up. An introduction page about the playground might say something like, “The playground at Heards Ferry is where students play at recess.” A conclusion page might say something like, “The playground is so much fun!” What you can do at home: have students practice sounding out words and writing down the sounds they hear on paper and draw pictures with details and label their pictures. You can also remind students that when writing, the first letter in a sentence is uppercase and the rest is lower case, there are finger spaces between words, and periods at the end of sentences. - In reading, we will continue our 2nd reading unit of study. We will continue to practice looking closely at familiar texts such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We will continue to pay attention to the character’s feelings by noticing what clues the author and illustrator gives. Students will then use this to label their books with a sticky note. If a student notices a character is happy, they can sound out the word happy on a sticky note and place it in the book. They can do the same things with other feelings. Students will also work labeling pictures in our books to match what we are working on in writing. For instance in our book The Three Billy Goats Gruff, students can label the animals, places and things they see such as the troll, bridge, goats, etc. using sticky notes. We will also practice identifying sight words in our books (also known as snap words) and use our sight words to retell a story with more and more detail. During reading groups, we will be reading instructional level texts and using strategies to help us decode words. What you can do at home: Read every night like you are working with a partner (sit side by side, have a book in the middle, read back and forth, etc.) and ask your child questions about what she/he is reading about. For students who need to work on letters and letter sounds, you can have students find letters around the house and ask them what sounds they make. -For phonics we will review all previously taught letters and sounds and discuss the letter and sound of r and f. You can practice these letters and sounds at home too. Here is a great letter/sound song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTeUONxZYAs
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