What a fun Halloween today! We did Halloween Math with Skittles, we built our own playdoh monsters, and we played in the gym dancing to "Halloween Just Dance" we had a parade and then a party! Thank you for all of the delicious food for the party!
Last week I asked the students to design a costume for me. The majority said "Witch", lucky me, because that's a costume I had in my tickle trunk! :)
This week we were treated to a live production of "Jack and The Beanstalk". It was so good!
It was a lot of fun learning more about our friend, Indy. Well done, India!
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Each day we practice new letter sounds. We are learning how to spell and read words. One strategy that I use for spelling is "Say It, Tap It, Map It, Read It". I dictate a word. Students repeat the word. We tap the sounds in the word and then we "map" each sound into a sound box to spell and then read the word.
It's important that students can hear each sound in a word and then correctly match the sound to the letter the sound represents.
I am seeing so much growth, every single day!
It's an exciting time in grade one. We now know 6 letter sounds including 1 vowel so we are learning to build words, spell and read!
We practice this skill by "building words" with magnets. I dictate a "sound" and students find the corresponding letter that represents the sound. After three sounds we have build a word.
