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Parents ALWAYS ask me... HOW DO I GET MY CHILD TO LEARN SIGHT WORDS?! I often suggest flashcards, because that is the way I grew up learning my sight words for my spelling tests. Well, parents, times have changed... and drastically! It is a world full of technology at your students' fingertips... and it is time we changed our thinking!
Below you will find fun ways to work with your child to master those tricky sight words! 20+ FUN WAYS TO PRACTICE SIGHT WORDS AT HOME SSight words are one of the first ways your child begins reading. As a parent, I first thought that memorizing words isn’t really what reading is all about! However, these sight words help build confidence and the beginning understanding of how words are formed, sound and work. As a parent, it’s extremely important for you to practice sight words at home. Sight words are one of the essential skills your child will need for reading success. And while practicing sight words with your child at home will make a big difference, it should also be a fun experience! FUN GAMES TO PRACTICE SIGHT WORDS AT HOME Paper Plate Toss: Write sight words on paper plates. Use them like frisbees to throw after reading the word. Add in some additional fun by adding a target. Flashlight Words: Turn off the lights. Tape words on the wall or ceiling. Use the flashlight to sine on the word, then have your child read it. Go Fish: Wish a duplicate set of word cards play “Go Fish.” You can easily make your own cards out of index cards. Stepping Stones: Place the word cards on the floor, making a fun stream going across the room. Have your child walk over the stream. As they step onto the stepping stone (word), have them say the word before they move on to get to the other side of the stream. Tic-Tac-Toe: Write words in the tac-tac-toe spaces. Take turns selecting a space to read. If read correctly, an X or O is placed on the space until someone wins. Word-O: This is played just like BINGO. Fill in a card with the words that you are working on. Call out the words and mark the spaces. The first one with a card covered calls out the word “WORDO!” Word Hunt: Look for target words in books or in the newspaper. If using the newspaper your child can highlight or circle the words that she finds. Word Jump: Write the sight words onto the driveway. Call out a word. Have your child jump their way to the sight word. SNAP: You put the sight words you want them to practice on flash cards and put the flash cards into a jar. Also, you write the word SNAP on a few flash cards and put them in to the jar. The kids can play in partners or in a groups of 3 or 4 with siblings. They take turns pulling a card out of the jar. If they can say the word on the card automatically with no struggle, they get to keep the card. If they struggle, they have to put it back. If they pull out one of the cards that says SNAP, they have to put all of the card they’ve drawn back. The first person to 5 cards (or 10) wins! Stair Chase: Place two sight word cards on each stair. Let them pick one sight word on the way up, saying the word and picking up the card when they get it correctly. Have them practice the other sight words on the way down. Coin Toss: Put words on the floor. Children take turns tossing a coin onto a word and saying the word. If they get the word correctly, they keep the coin. If you like, first to 10 coins wins. Or see if they can collect all of the coins. Concentration: Create two sets of word cards. Place the word cards face down. Have your child turn over two cards, trying to make a match. Continue until all of the words are matched. Play who am I? Lay out the word cards. Then give the child clues to what the selected word is. For example, if the word was “red,” you could say – I rhyme with bed. I had three letters. I end with the letter D. Have the child locate the word. Chalk Writing: Go outside and practice writing the sight words with chalk on the sidewalk. Beat the Clock: See how many times your child can write a word in one minute. Or see how many flash cards your child can read in one minute. Words You Can Eat: Write your words in whipped cream, peanut butter, carrots or anything you can eat. Who has more? Flash words cards to your child. If they read the word within 5 second, they get to keep the card. If not, you keep the card. If the child has more cards than you at the end, they win.Salt Tray: Grab a tray or baking sheet with edges. Pour in salt. Write the word in salt. When your child says it correctly, they get to erase the word. MORE FUN WAYS TO PRACTICE SIGHT WORDS: WRITE THEM OUT Having your child recite sight words isn’t the only way to have them practice sight words. Having them write them out in fun ways helps them learn the spelling, too. You can make words using:
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I hope this past weekend treated you well! The weather was PERFECT and I was able to enjoy some time on the lake... although I didn't do so well trying to water ski 😐 For this week, we are starting all of our units of study (as well as reviewing and practicing our rules and procedures). Like I tell all families every year, I tend to be "tough and hard" the first few weeks. I like to set an expectation for the way our classroom should run and the procedures that will eventually become second nature to our classroom. Once these things are mastered, I can "ease up" and give more leeway and flexibility to the students once those expectations have been met! Your child should have brought home a purple folder today with their name on it. This will be their homework folder and a way for them to take home papers "safely". Classroom needs: Treasure box items Spiral notebooks (for math) Small candy (reward jar) This week we will be learning Math - Introducing our new math curriculum. We will be reviewing simple addition and subtraction word problems, and how to solve the problem while showing our work. Phonics - introducing our new phonics curriculum, Letterland. We will be meeting all of the characters and the letters/sounds they represent. Writing - We are beginning our unit on personal narratives. This week, as an introduction, I am having the students build up their writing stamina as well as their writing confidence using fun prompts. I am reminding them to stretch out tricky words and to plan their writing before putting their ideas down on paper! I am looking forward to a fabulous week! Let me know if anyone has any questions! P.S. I am in need of a Thursday folder parent to stuff folders on Thursday afternoons as well as a "room parent"! Many of you reached out with interest. Please contact me if you are able to help out/have the time! Thank you all so much! As many of you know, every year teachers spend countless hours preparing their classrooms for the upcoming year. Many times this includes buying new supplies/materials needed in the classroom. As teachers, we often use our personal money to supply our classroom and make it a welcoming learning environment for our future young minds. This can be pretty taxing on a young teachers wallet.
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As I look forward to next year, I have taken on a new challenge! I am excited and anxious to see what this next year will bring. During my student teaching while attending UNC Charlotte, I had the privilege of teaching first grade on two separate occasions. I am very familiar with first grade curriculum and I am excited to take on this new journey... and possibly have some of my 2016-2017 babies in my class next year! I look forward to all the 2017-2018 year has to bring! Cheers! As we near the end of the school year, I am having a little "treat" for our scholars. Students who have 80% or higher on the green on Class Dojo will be rewarded with ice cream!! I will provide the ice cream, but I need a little help with the toppings! If anyone could help by bringing in any sort of sweet treat toppings for the ice cream that would be just grand! I will provide the ice cream, spoons and bowls and cute napkins! Friends who do not receive this treat because of not so smart behavior choices will not be able to indulge in this sweet treat! Talk with your babies about having a great week!
Hello all! I most certainly enjoyed that 3 day weekend and I hope you did too!! I have linked the copy of this week's fun week schedule! I have also given your child a printed out copy to take home with them and should be in their book bag! Can you believe there are only 8 days left of this school year?! It is crazy! I wanted to thank those of you who have supported me from the beginning as well as supported your scholar's classroom... We couldn't have done it without you!! We are clean out of snacks again! (seems like I ask for this weekly) but a bag of yummy graham crackers only gets us so far! Most boxed snacks gets us through a day and a half of snacks!! Please if you could, help feed our babies! Not much longer left! Most everyone's child eats these snacks so if your child has been eating the snacks and you haven't had the chance to contribute yet, I know the parents who are so amazing at donating it would greatly appreciate the break! Report cards will be going home next week in the Thursday folders so keep an eye out for that!! Tomorrow is board game day! Please have your child bring in their favorite game! (that they are able to play UNASSISTED!!) (i.e. cards, uno, go fish, checkers, etc) If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask! Happy Friday! Fun Friday is a behavior reward for students who have displayed positive and kind behavior all week long! These students are rewarded with fun activities, privileges, and sometimes.... ice cream sundays!
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This week we have a few updates... We will be turning in the money for the field trip TOMORROW!! If you have yet to pay, all money must be received upon arrival. Progress reports will be going home next week! These may look oddly similar to the report card since the data is the same for both reports. Please be working on sight words as well as reading your baggie of books nightly!! Also, please be utilizing Raz Kids as well as DreamBox. It is scientifically proven that children who get on these applications/websites perform HIGHER than their peers! Things you should do at home: 1. Read to your child from the baggie of books. Allow your child to read them back to you. By the end of the week, your child will be able to read them. This is an exciting first step. A few of our Kindergarteners are already independent readers. It is important for all children to listen to an adult read aloud to them several times per day. I read lots of books at school each day. It is my favorite part of the day. Take advantage of some cuddling time to read to your baby! 2. Have your child get on RAZ Kids and Dreambox on the computer. My log in is "jglover2" and your child finds his/her name and clicks on it. They do this in class and are experts! 3. Practice the sight words by playing Bingo, Memory and/or Go Fish. Let me know if you need any help. I'm here for you! 4. Complete the homework or project assignments that are sent home. During writing we are continuing writing All About Books. Your student will be learning to write "all about" something. For example, All About Soccer, All About Frogs, etc. This is a time that your child will get to show off some things he/she knows all about. In Math we are measuring, comparing and solving problems as well as counting by 1s and 10s to 100 and writing numerals (forming them correctly). You have probably noticed some recording sheets coming home with math problems. Most of the time, we play games and use manipulatives to solve problems during our math workshop time. Again, let me know what questions you have. We use math journals that stay at school to solve simple word problems! Stop by and enjoy lunch with us any day at 11:00 AM. NEEDS: Treasure box items SNACK ITEMS Hello families!
Hope we all did well braving this ice and snow this past weekend! The makeup days for the missed days due to the snow will be Tuesday January 24th (previously a teacher workday) and Friday February 17th. This Friday we will have an early release! Remember that if your child has ANY transportation changes, PLEASE let me know asap!! School will be dismissing at 12:45pm! There will be NO SCHOOL Monday in lieu of MLK Day! WE ARE IN NEED OF SNACKS!! (goldfish, crackers, teddy grams, etc.) Please continue to read nightly with your child! This week we started testing all their phonics skills, sound recognition, phoneme segmentation, as well as their reading level! (sight words included!) They should be testing at a level C in order to be considered ON GRADE LEVEL!! Animal projects are due THIS FRIDAY! I hope some were able to work on these during the long weekend snowy break! If some of you are having trouble with your child at home with reading and getting them to read past a level A, continue reading the books as home AS WELL as using the website below... It is an amazing resource! teachyourmonstertoread.com Have an amazing week! Reminders:
*Sign the planner each day *Complete weekly homework activities & return on Fri *Read for 30 minutes nightly and record in the planner *Practice sight words nightly. The list is located in the book baggie. *Return book baggie each day NO SCHOOL Oct. 31 Early Release Day Oct. 12th 12:45 PM |