Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Sight Words (K.RFS.3c)
My kindergarten students know on average close to 100 sight words. My district uses the Teacher College lists of sight words. I cut a list of words in half and staple them into a book. Everytime a student learns and gets all 25 words highlighted in their book they move up to the next colored book. We have a student in class that is on the black book (the last book of sight words) they think that is so cool. This is very motivational for my kids and they can see their growth. They love when they move on to the next colored book. I also send a note home so parents are aware of the new words their child is currently working on.
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I put this hangman game into a sleeve and the kids flip to a page in their sight word book and play hangman sightword to review words too. The creater of this sight word sheet is listed at the bottom of the picture.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Vowel Patterns (K.RFS.3b)
I can not say enough about introducing Kindergarteners to vowel patterns. Every book out there has words in it that contain vowel patterns. We do this video every day in my classroom to learn the sounds each pattern makes. I have seen a huge difference in my kids reading abilities just from using this short video. I had my daughters do the motions, this helps kids learn them quicker :)
We also work on spelling vowel patterns by using this chart. I put the paper in a plastic sleeve to save paper. We practice spelling words on it once a week. If we come to one that has two different patterns I will tell them to circle the pattern that we are going to use to spell that word.
We also work on spelling vowel patterns by using this chart. I put the paper in a plastic sleeve to save paper. We practice spelling words on it once a week. If we come to one that has two different patterns I will tell them to circle the pattern that we are going to use to spell that word.
None of my kids came in reading. I have 2 on level G, 4 F's, 1 E, 7 D's, 4 C's and 2 B's
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Bossy R Jeopardy
My kids had so much fun coming up with the clues for bossy r words. I gave them each a half sheet of paper that had a bossy r word written on the top. They had to come up with a clue for the word. Then I typed them up into a jeopardy game. We practice bossy r words a lot, they can make it very tricky to sound out a word if you don't know the sound they make.
Each student has a dry erase board, we play boys vs girls. When it is your turn you get to pick the category and points amount. Every child writes the answer on their board every time. I have them all sit on the floor close to me so I can watch their spelling of each word. They love jeopardy and think it is so cool that they made the clues. The game is just $1.00 on teacherspayteachers.com
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bossy-R-Jeopardy
Each student has a dry erase board, we play boys vs girls. When it is your turn you get to pick the category and points amount. Every child writes the answer on their board every time. I have them all sit on the floor close to me so I can watch their spelling of each word. They love jeopardy and think it is so cool that they made the clues. The game is just $1.00 on teacherspayteachers.com
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bossy-R-Jeopardy
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Using pointers to track print (K.RFS.1a)
Common Core Reading: Foundation Skills
K.RFS.1
K.RFS.1
I like to provide my students with pointers to use when reading the books in their book boxes. This provides them a fun way to practice tracking print from top/bottom, left/right. I have them just use a plain stick for the first month of school. I tell them if they are responsible and take care of their stick they will get "cooler" pointers as the year goes on.
August/September: popsicle stick with a smile drawn on
October: witchy fingers Oriental Trading
November: feathers
December/January: snowmen (cut the fingers off of white gloves, add a little cotton stuffing, a pipe cleaner scarf, and decorate with a sharpie.
February: Southwest Airlines stir sticks
March: Shamrock sticker, some years I make gold glitter sticks
April/May: foam flower
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