Thursday, September 27, 2012

Reading and Literacy Update

Hello,

As the week draws to a close I wanted do update you on some of the hard work we have been up to! We have made some really great strides in reading this week, students are really beginning to master the concept of one-to-one correspondence and we have begun reading Charlotte's Web in the afternoons, which has generated some very rich readers workshop discussion.

Students have been working very hard to master their sight words both on the list I sent home and on our word wall. Students are beginning to incorporate these words in writing workshop entries, which has been fabulous! I will be sending home a new list next week to help expand this new learning.

We had our weekly book vote this week. Each week we couple five to seven titles we have read and vote on our favorites. This weeks winner was a short chapter book by Kate DiCamillo Mercy Watson to the Rescue. We keep the tallied results hung in the classroom and sometimes refer to them in our number corner time.

Handwriting is another component students have been working really hard on this week. We have now accomplished seven capital letters in our Handwriting Without Tears workbooks. You may have noticed that I have been making copies of these sheets and sending them home a few times a week, these are strictly for practice if you so choose. I would love to see them once they are completed so that I can give positive feedback, but they are not mandatory.

Thank you for all of your support at home. It is so wonderful to hear about all of the stories, games and activities you all are doing. Students so enjoy sharing these experiences in morning meeting or in writing. It is wonderful for them to draw from so many different perspectives to share with one another.


Happy (almost) Friday!








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