Guided Reading

For the kiddos who are not ready to begin reading, we have been working on recognizing letters, letter sounds, and sight words.  

We are playing Letter Sound Parking Lot.  The students use Hot Wheel cars and "park" their cars in the letter or letter sound that is called.

Jumping to sight words

 Candyland: They have to read a letter and letter sound to move

Using white boards and dry erase markers to write letters

Alphabet Arc: The kiddos color the letter that corresponds to the letter sound I called out

The kiddos had to read each sight word on the card to move to the next card.  Everyone made it through all 17 cards!!!

Bulletin Boards from September

Wondering what our classroom looks like right now?  We have been working on filling our classroom and hallway with all our wonderful work!!  We reviewed nursery rhymes and while we worked on Little Miss Muffet, we wondered where she went when the spider caused her to run away.  The kids wrote where they thought she ran.

 

We read No David and talked about being peacekeepers (which is our new program we are using in the school to prevent bullying).  We talked about what peacekeepers do and do not do in school.

 

 

 

 

Here is the view from across the hall.  They used pieces of tiny paper to cover each letter of their names.  We also watched Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and made our own coconut trees, BUT with our names on them!  They used stickers for each letter of their name and counted how many letters were in their name!

 

 

 Across from our room

 

Here is a close up of each one

 

 

After learning about the letter T we made Tigers out of the letter T!  Preschool joined us for this art activity!

 

 

 

 

When we learned about 2D shapes we made these art projects:

 

Circle: School bus

Triangle: Pizza (with toppings of our choice)

Rectangle: Popsicle (we rounded the edges off to make them look more like Popsicles and we added some glitter to them)

Square/shape review: We made lions out of all the shapes we learned about

 

 

Here is Brooklyn working on her lion

 

Our friend Carl missed a few of our activities from the week we did these activities because he was sick.  We were glad when he was back and feeling better :)