Reading Groups
After reading out reading group book, Can You See the Skunk?, we found the sight word stamps that matched the words in our book. Then we stamped them on our paper and wrote the words.
We have been discovering sounds in words the past few weeks: recognizing initial sounds, ending sounds, and counting sounds in words. Sounding out unknown words is a piece to the puzzle that will help us develop as great readers!
Sailing into Beginning Sounds
Sorting Words by Beginning Sounds
Sorting Words by Ending Sounds
Counting Sounds BINGO
We had a ball on Thursday during small groups. Ms. Lori let us create an arctic scene from Greenland with homemade puffy paint and homemade textured sand paint. The kids enjoyed adding the puffy fur onto the Polar Bear to help keep it warm. During reading groups, after reading our readers, we played a Cookie Crunch Sight Word game on the Smartboard to polish our sight word recognition. Then, we used our white crayons on black paper to practice our letter formation and orientation of our current sight words. Watch out Kindergarten….here we come!
Our focus this week is word families. We are beginning to put the sounds and sight words together that we have been learning over the past few months…the next step in becoming even better readers!
The PreK class has been working hard on their big book this past week and a half. They were the authors and illustrators of the book, All About the Farm. They had a chance to read it to the Early 3’s class today after lunch and they did an absolutely wonderful job! Way to go!
During our small groups today the children enjoyed learning the colors of the rainbow. Our focus this week will be on rapid recognition of color words. During reading groups we were introduced to many color words in our reading book, Birds. We used the initial sound in each word to determine each color. This would be a great time for you to add the basic color words to your sight word practice during nightly homework (red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple).
The kids then had a ball reading, writing then stamping each color sight word into their own booklet. We will work on these booklets this week and bring them home on Thursday.
To help cement what we learned today we played a game of color matching using our color sight word cards and our colorful sorting bowls from the math center.
Sorting is an important skill that is used in many facets of every day life
Phonics Bingo
Identifying pictures using the first letter sound
Can you find the picture that matches the letter?
Sorting by capitals and lowercase letters
We sorted by colors
Our reading group story today was "Pretty Blankets"
What does your pretty blanket look like?
A blanket masterpiece!
We learned about the different blankets that are made in Mexico during small groups today. We designed and decorated our own Mexican style blanket with Ms. Barbara and read Pretty Blankets by Bruce Larkin during reading groups. As a special treat we we visited Bruce Larkin’s website and listened to him read his book to us as we watched the animation. We were introduced to three new sight words today, this, on, and has. These words are found in our new book for the week. We reviewed these words along with our previous words in a fun game of Bingo. We also found a few of our animal friends we have been learning about on our Bingo Cards. Keep reviewing the sight words during homework time!
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