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.