June 2014
What a beautiful day to read in the gazebo:
April 11, 2014
March 11, 2014
February 28, 2014
After finishing our story The Kite we learned how to make our own kites and tried flying them outside. Although it wasn't a windy day, we had a lot of fun!
January 24, 2014
Everyone did an amazing job reading over the winter holiday! I was very impressed with how many signatures the boys and girls received on their contest record sheets. I bet you were impressed with their fluid oral reading :) We have worked hard and are now challenging ourselves with long vowel sounds. We've made "Magic e wands" that we use to change short vowel sounds to long vowel sounds. We will also briefly talk about other ways long vowel sounds can be made (vowel pairs) starting with long a (ai and ay).
Please continue to read nightly with your son or daughter. Check out the article under "Reading Documents" that explains the many benefits of reading with your child every night. Including in the article are strategies and tips on how to help your beginner reader at home.
December 19, 2013
Please remember to read over winter break. A Reading Contest record sheet and our reader came home today! Happy reading!!
November 22, 2013
What a beautiful day to read in the gazebo:
April 11, 2014
We finished another anthology today in reading class!!! Your son or daughter has brought home our reading book to share with you over the weekend. Please take some time to read through the stories we have worked so hard on! I am so PROUD of my readers!
Next week we will start our new reading book. The book is titled Treasures and the theme is called "We
Can Work it Out". Our next stories will focus on characters working
together to find solutions to problems.
Here is a list of skills we will cover:
Theme 7- We Can Work it Out
Phonics:
Vowel Pairs oa and ow
The /oo/ sound in book
Vowel Pairs oo, ew, ue, ou, u, u_e /oo/
sound in moon
Comprehension: problem solving, summarize,
sequence of events, fantasy and realism
Words: again, both, gone, hard, turn, want, afraid, any,
bear, follow, idea, most, tall, water, build, shoe, old, piece, start,
under, very, wear
**Check out this great website for fun ways to practice ABC order, making rhyming words, and reviewing long vowel sounds.:
March 11, 2014
We've started a new theme in our reading
book. We are now reading about animal adventures in the second half
of our reading book, Surprises. The stories we'll read
are The Sleeping Pig, Eek! There's a Mouse in the House, and Red-Eyed
Tree Frog.
Theme 6- Animal Adventures
Phonics:
long o and long u words
final clusters ft, lk, and nt
long e words and vowel pairs ee and ea
vowel pairs ai and ay
Comprehension: story structure, summarizing,
noting details, making predictions
Words: by, climb, found, morning, out, shout, show, cow,
door, horse, now, table, there, through, wall, been, evening, far, forest,
goes, hungry, near, soon
Have some more practice with long vowel
words when you play this game:
February 28, 2014
After finishing our story The Kite we learned how to make our own kites and tried flying them outside. Although it wasn't a windy day, we had a lot of fun!
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| Making our kites |
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| Taking our kites outside...brrr! |
January 24, 2014
Everyone did an amazing job reading over the winter holiday! I was very impressed with how many signatures the boys and girls received on their contest record sheets. I bet you were impressed with their fluid oral reading :) We have worked hard and are now challenging ourselves with long vowel sounds. We've made "Magic e wands" that we use to change short vowel sounds to long vowel sounds. We will also briefly talk about other ways long vowel sounds can be made (vowel pairs) starting with long a (ai and ay).
Please continue to read nightly with your son or daughter. Check out the article under "Reading Documents" that explains the many benefits of reading with your child every night. Including in the article are strategies and tips on how to help your beginner reader at home.
December 19, 2013
When we return from break we will start another new book in
reading!! We will start reading Surprises, which includes the
stories Moving Day, Me on the Map, and The
Kite.
Theme 5- Home Sweet Home
Phonics:
h-brothers: th, sh, ch, wh
long a words, magic e
words with final blends: nd, ng, nk
long i words, magic e
contractions
Comprehension: compare and contrast, making
generalizations, summarizing, cause and effect
Words: grow, light, long, more, other, right, room, small,
these, could, house, how, over, own, so, world, fly, give, good, her, little,
our, try, was
Please remember to read over winter break. A Reading Contest record sheet and our reader came home today! Happy reading!!
November 22, 2013
We love to play games in reading class that reinforce the skills we are learning. Here are a few:
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| Sight Word Zingo |
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| Roll a Word |
October 30, 2013
We are halfway through our reader and ready to start our next theme!
Here are the skills we will be covering
over the next few months in reading class:
Theme 4- Family and Friends
Phonics:
words with short e and short u
words with l-blends
words with s-blends
silent letters in kn, wr, gn
words with triple blends
Comprehension: drawing conclusions, compare and
contrast, and sequence of events
Sight Words: children, come, family, father,
love, mother, people, picture, your, friend, girl, know, play, read, sing, she,
today, write, car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their, walk, would
Lastly, I want to introduce you to a website that offers a fun, interactive ways for your son or daughter to practice their word wall words, as well as our phonic skill for our current story: http://www.spellingcity.com/dandreareading/
Follow the link; click on "Who's in a Family" or "Who's in a Family phonics" to access our word lists; click on "games" and have fun!
October 18, 2013
We have spent the last month fine-tuning our short a and short i skills. We can read words with these short vowels in them, as well as words with the endings -s, -ed, and -ing.
This week we started working with r-blend words (br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr). You can help reinforce this new skill at home by playing BANG! with r-blend words. Here's how you play: using an old shoe box, cut a hole in the top and fill the box with short vowel words that start with r-blends. Add a few cards that say "BANG!" too. When it's your turn pull a card out of the box. If you can read the word you get to keep it; if you pull out BANG! return all of your cards to the box. The player with the most cards wins!
Next week we will read the story What A Trip! Talk to your son or daughter about trips you have gone on. What was their favorite part? What did they need to take with them on the trip?
September 12, 2013
Our first book this year is titled Let's
Be Friends!
Here are the skills we will be covering
over the next month in reading class:
Theme 3-Let's Look Around!
Phonics:
short a and short i words
verb endings -s, -ed, -ing
possessives with 's
words with r-blends
contractions with 's
Comprehension: making predictions, categorize and
classify
Sight Words: animal, bird, cold, fall, full,
flower, look, see, all, call, eat, every, first, never, paper, shall, why,
also, blue, brown, color, funny, green, like, many, some
