Reading:
Our CAFE strategy this week was focused on CROSS CHECKING. As experienced readers, when we come to an unfamiliar word in a text, we are usually
able to use context clues to help us figure out what the word is. We use the accuracy strategy ´Skip the Word, Then Come Back without even knowing what we are doing. We have enough experience and practice as a reader to know this strategy
works.
When children comes to words they don’t know some stall on the unknown word and
are unable to move on. These children must learn strategies to help them move forward. This strategy teaches the reader to skip over the word until the end of the sentence or passage. Then, the reader should back up and read the sentence again,
using the first letter or letters of the skipped word and their context clues to decode the
unknown word.
How can you help your child with this strategy at home?
1. When listening to your child read, help him/her realize it is okay to skip over a word
and then come back to it. If, when reading, your child gets stuck on a word,
encourage the use of this strategy.
2. Model this strategy for your child. Read aloud and stop at a word they may find
difficult. Think out and say “I am going to skip this word because I am not sure what it says. I will read the rest of the sentence and then come back to it to see if I can figure it out”. Hearing someone else think out loud through a new strategy can be helpful to a reader that is learning to use that strategy for the first time.
3. Play a game “Guess My Word” with your child. Write a sentence and cover up one word. Have your child read the sentence and guess what the word might be.
Then, uncover the first letter of the word and help them use the first letter and
context clues from the rest of the sentence to figure it out. You may also want to
reverse roles and have your child write a sentence and cover a word for you to
guess. This will allow you another opportunity to model this strategy for your child.
Our vocabulary words this week were:
- assistant: a person who helps someone else
- enormous: very big
- generous: willing to help or share
- mayor: the leader of a city
- shocked: very surprised
- volunteers: people who work for free
For our Thursday review lesson we didn’t have as much time as we usually do, so we went through each word and shared things we know about the word and examples in our lives where we have used the word or seen the word.
iPad Fun:
Reading
- We used a new app called “Classroom Spelling” where we practice building words and recognizing words!
- We continued working on our insect books this week using another favorite app called Book Creator. We created insect books. There was not a specific direction for the students to take, they were allowed to write whatever type of insect book they wanted. They could write an information teaching about one or more insects, they could write about their favorite or least favorite insect and why, they could write about a book just strictly about different types of insects...the ideas are endless!
- As always, we had Reading Eggs, Raz-Kids, QR listening books and Epic! as the other choices when we completed our first tasks!
Math
- This week we continued our Math Journals with the vocabulary word “sum” and completing one entry of Number of the Day.
- We also have a new choice during iPad choice called “Math Fight”. This app pairs two students up to practice math facts against one another. They loved it!
- We also have our choices from previous weeks to complete tens/ones using the Number Pieces app and scanning QR codes to reveal subtraction and ten frame problems and where we scan a QR code that gives an addition sentence to 10 with a missing addend. The students then open up the DoodleBuddy app and complete the problem practicing their ways to make ten!
Writing:
We continued working on Opinion Writing this week. We started the week off by reading a Fancy Nancy book and seeing how she changes easy words to fancy words. We continued throughout the week looking at our own writing and finding easy words that we could change to fancy words. Students then changed at least one word in their own writing from an easy word to a fancy word. We also learned about writing a book review by writing a whole class review. We wrote a review on the book The Grouchy Ladybug. We will continue practicing with book reviews next week.
Below are a few examples of published opinion writing books from Book Creator.
Math:
We learned and practiced ways to show how any number 1-9 can be made in more than one way. We practiced showing this concept by using math tools, drawings and ten frames. We put our ways in number bonds. We will continue with this next week.
Our vocabulary word this week was the word “sum”. We learned that when numbers are added together the answer is called the sum.
Content:
This week was all about Eric Carle! We have had fun reading several of his books and learning how he creates his illustrations!
- Monday we watched a video of Eric Carle describing how he came up with the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar and how he creates his tissue paper illustrations.
- Tuesday, we completed a page where we wrote and drew about if we were as hungry as the very hungry caterpillar, what would we eat? A few of the ideas were the school and apples!
- Wednesday, we completed another butterfly observation journal. They are in their J hangs now and have formed their chrysalis! They will be emerging soon!
- Thursday, we listened to an Eric Carle book on YouTube b/c we didn’t have a copy of it in class and it was one of the books we completed a craft on Friday!
- **Also on Thursday we had an illustrator visit our school. Steve Gray came and shared with us how he illustrates his silly characters! He went through three different illustrations step by step with us and we completed our own silly illustrations! It was so much fun to see how he goes through each step.
- Friday, we completed an Eric Carle rotation with all 6 kindergarten classrooms! Each kindergarten teacher rotated to each of the six classrooms and we completed a craft to go with 6 of his books!
Below are SEVERAL pictures and from our fun filled week!
PRACTICE AT HOME:
While reading a story at home, practice skip the word and then come back. Play the suggested game above!
Next Week:
- In reading we will focus on Cause and Effect.
- In writing we will continue our third unit Opinion Writing with a focus on book reviews.
- In math we will continue to learn about ways to show two different ways to make a number 1-9.
- Our theme next week is all about PLANTS!
Important Dates/Information:
- 4/18-ABC Countdown to Summer begins with the letter A! Be sure to check your calendar each night to see what the next day’s letter and activity is!
- 4/29 Spring Carnival
- 5/5 Muffins for Mom
- 5/10 Field Trip to Indy Zoo
- 5/16 Kindergarten Graduation 10:00AM
- 5/17 Field Day 1:00PM
- 5/19 Talent Show
- 5/20 Last day of school!
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