Thursday 31 October 2013
Monday 21 October 2013
We are songwriters!
This past week we finished our final lesson with singer and songwriter Harmony Parent. Harmony was working with our class as a part of The Integrated Arts program. This program brings various artists into the classroom twice a year to integrate their type of art into the curriculum. With Harmony we wrote and recorded a song about the different kinds of smart. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun! We are very proud of our song!
Our Reading Journey
Grade One is an exciting year as students learn how to read. The children practice reading daily during Daily 5 and participate in guided reading lessons with Mrs. Turner. At this early stage in learning to read, the students are learning how to apply some reading strategies and are working to recall common sight words.
Here are the strategies we have learned:
1) Point to each word and look at it while reading.
2) Look at the picture to help understand the story.
3) When you see a new word, get your mouth ready by making the first sound.
4) Re-read books over and over. This strategy helps words "stick" in our brains.
5) If you get stuck, go back to the beginning of the sentence and try again.
Some readers are learning how to sound out some words. Usually you only have to sound out the first part of the word and then your brain figures out what would make sense in that sentence.
Finally, we are practicing common "sight" words. These words are found in many books and used often when we write. Please practice reading the spelling words with your child.
Here are some websites that help kids practice sight words:
Primary games
Starfall word match
Happy reading!
Here are the strategies we have learned:
1) Point to each word and look at it while reading.
2) Look at the picture to help understand the story.
3) When you see a new word, get your mouth ready by making the first sound.
4) Re-read books over and over. This strategy helps words "stick" in our brains.
5) If you get stuck, go back to the beginning of the sentence and try again.
Some readers are learning how to sound out some words. Usually you only have to sound out the first part of the word and then your brain figures out what would make sense in that sentence.
Finally, we are practicing common "sight" words. These words are found in many books and used often when we write. Please practice reading the spelling words with your child.
Here are some websites that help kids practice sight words:
Primary games
Starfall word match
Happy reading!
Friday 4 October 2013
Word Work
In Daily 5, we started Word Work. Some days we practice writing our spelling words the "grade 1 way" with lowercase letters that sit on the line. Some days, we practice our spelling words by making them with "wiki stix" or by playing the Spider Race game.
Tuesday 1 October 2013
Our Class Brain!
We have been learning about the different kinds of smart (Multiple Intelligences). We know that everyone has smooth roads (strengths) and bumpy roads (challenges). We made a class brain in different colours to represent all the "kinds of smart". We each made a flag to show one way in which each of us is smart and we put these flags in our class brain! Ask your child what kind of smart they are!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)