OCTOBER UPDATE!

Stories (Independent & Shared) / Readers / Chapter Books

• The Sleepover
• Franklin's Pumpkin
• Franklin Rides a Bike
• Fiona Famous
• Junie B. Jones Cheater Pants
• Oxford Reading Tree ( Who Can You See? / Six in a Bed / Get Dad 

  

  Comprehension

   

 Language Activities

• Grammar ( Upper & Lower Case)
• Sounds "th" "qu" ( dictation & spelling)
• Beginning Sounds Bingo Game
• True Friends ( Do / Don't) Game
• Sentence Structures

Unit of Inquiry
Learner Profile Concepts (Responsible/Risk Taker)

"How can you be responsible with your library book?"
                   "Look after it and bring it back to the library."

Concepts Where? When?
"Where did the story happen?" "When did the story happen?"

Sentences

 

 

 

 

 

Math
Graphing Review (Star Burst Graph/Sight Word Graph)
"What did you learn from this graph?"  
                                                    "I'm still thinking!"
"What does this graph tell you?"
                                      "If you have more that means you like it much!"

AUGUST/SEPTEMBER UPDATE!

Stories / Independent & Shared

• Family Get Together
• Family Treasure
• Family Vacation
• Soccer Field Folly
• Franklin's Bossy

Reading Ms Debi a story.

Readers

• Oxford Reading Tree
• Up You Go / I See / Get On

Chapter Books

• Junie B. Jones First Grader

Language Activities

• Jolly Phonics Grammar - "sh" letters / sounds / dictation
• Family Relationship Quiz

Working on my book.

My Book!!

Book Making - My Family Vacation

• Language Game - A good friend should...........        (True or False)

Example - A good friend is honest.
"I don't know what it means. It's my first time hearing this word!"

• Friendship Concepts integrated within the key concepts of the unit (form/causation/responsibility) and the learner profiles for this unit (risk taker / reflective)

Comprehension

Math

• Game: Cars & Planes (addition)

Unit of Inquiry

• Provocation: What can you tell me about a family?

"You can be kind to them and don't tip your bucket!, be nice to them, play with them, make dinner!"

Mind map of my family.

• PowerPoint - What is a relationship? Can you tell me a relationship you have? 

                       "What are cousins? Some people doesn't have cousins."

• Review of Positive Behaviors 

At School:

"Play by the rules. Tell the truth. Be a good friend."

At Home:

"Listen to your parents. Help your parents. Don't buy movies." 

• Game: Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down for key concepts & learner profile within the unit of inquiry.

JULY UPDATE!

Sunday, August 3rd, 2014.

                                    "My mom said I will be good in school if Ms Debi helps me!"

STORIES / INDEPENDENT AND SHARED
(Me, You & We)

• Berenstain Bears and the Big Blooper
• The Green Eyed Monster
• Franklin and the Tooth Fairy
• Franklin's Trip
• Fireman Small

READERS

• A Present for Mom
• The Hole in the Sand

CHAPTER BOOK

• The Case of the Missing Hamster (ongoing)

Why Reading Matters?

• Books help children develop vital language skills
• Reading can open up new worlds and enrich children's lives
• Reading can enhance children's social skills
• Reading can improve hand-eye coordination
• Reading can provide children with good, clean fun!

Following our shared reading Kingston is asked the following questions;
(this assists Kingston in making connections to the stories which supports his understanding of concepts)

• Does this story remind you of anything else?
• What can you tell me about ________?
• Where and when did the story happen?
• What happened at the beginning, middle, end?
• Can you guess what may happen at the end of the story?
• Can you think of another ending?
• Can you retell using your own words?
• Has this ever happened to you?

LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES

• Me Box
• Journal Story - The Day My Tooth Fell Out

                                                 (a mind map to support the journal story)

• HWT (writing practice)

• Letter & Alphabet Review - Match Lower & Upper Case

                                                     - Letters that Follow One Another
                                                    - Writing Capitals
                                                    - Finding Words
                                                    - Finding Lower Case Letters

• Sight Words - Review & Recognition (finding sight words in the magazine with the magnifying glass and the game Snap using sight words)
• The World Almanac (Puzzles) for Kids
• Feeling Words - Comprehension and application of words

Assessment
(Hearing and Recording Sounds)
This assessment is mandatory in most school boards (in western countries) for Grade One word recognition. The student listens to the words in the sentence and writes down the sounds they hear. They are then marked on the sounds they hear. Their results will inform teachers who needs early intervention strategies for reading and word recognition.
Kingston did well in this assessment. He can hear individual sounds and he is able to represent these sounds with appropriate letter symbols.

I read him (3) three sentences which he then wrote down and his scores for each were, 34/36 , 34/36 and 32/36. These marks represent Kingston's isolation of the sounds when writing and his symbolic representation of the sounds. This determines if the child is hearing individual sounds, which he is. These were the words that were spelled incorrectly but represented the sounds for what he heard;

playng (playing)                   bol (ball)                          wil (will)                    litt (little)
gowing (going)                    yelow (yellow)                 rid (ride)                    fus (fuzzy)

scool (school)                      hav (have)

                              *These spelling errors are quite common for his age.