Mystery Word - What's the Last Word? (And Freebie!) Personal Word Wall. Free Spelling Games And Activities For Kids - By KidsSpell.com. Literacy Station Organization. I'm linking up to Mrs. Patton again! I, like many others, do a version of the Daily 5 for my literacy stations. So the only ones I really need to worry about organizing are word work and listening. Of course I have to organize my classroom library too, but that doesn't change throughout the year.
So here is my word work. I had it set up at the beginning of the year with about 5 or 6 activities in each drawer and they were just labeled #1-6 (the same thing was in each drawer). So the kids would take a drawer to their desk and choose whichever activity they wanted to do independently. Monday's box- spell weekly words with letter beads and pipe cleaners Tuesday- word sorting (I've posted about this activity, here's the first link and another one) Wednesday - spelling words with scrabble tiles (again, I posted about this too, here's the link) Thursday- sight word activity Friday- stamping I hope something here is helpful to someone=)
Making words folder w/ stickies. Hi Friends! Kerri here...So this is me! I have been teaching for 14 years. I have taught Kinder, 1st, 2nd, and 4th. I taught Kinder for 10 years and then had the opportunity to teach first grade this year, so I jumped at the chance! This is my family! Here is a snapshot of my "corner" of my classroom! Freebie of the Day! Here are a few board games I made for my kiddos to use in Math centers, Language Arts centers, what have you...I think I may use them this week to practice high frequency words or spelling words.
Spelling homework/practice. I send this sheet home in my students' homework folders so they can practice their spelling words without getting bored! They must pick 2 each week and complete the activities. You could use it in centers! {Click picture for the download} Then, during the week, we play some spelling games to practice our words. Daily 5 work on words ideas. Spelling Word Study. Word Work. Ok, so in my last post I mentioned being inspired to give my literacy block a little facelift. A week and a half ago I went to another school in my district to visit a T1 classroom. When these kids came into this classroom they were about 5 months behind where a first grader should be. This wonderful teacher has obviously worked extremely hard because her students seem to be right where they need to be now. She has the amazing blessing of having 3 adults in her room-- teacher, assistant, and tutor.
So, here's what I came up... {These are all of the sheets I am using to make my groups and plan activities.} In my group, I also do a variety of reading and word study activities with a focus on reading fluency. My independent workers go to the tub and find their group's folder. So far, so good. --Mrs. Phonics Dance. I am so glad to hear that several of you are either already doing the Phonics Dance or are wanting to do it this coming year!
I wanted to share a little more about the program. First of all, Ginny Dowd is the author of this program. I was lucky enough to go to a small workshop she held in the Dallas area last week. She has so much energy and is a really upbeat person. We had a lot of fun as she taught us all about the Phonics Dance approach. We received her newest book and cd with all the chants. You can go to her website and order her books and cds. The Phonics Dance Philosophy (The Phonics Dance pg. 4) "Phonics Dancing is a spiral approach to language arts. Six Steps to Literacy (The Phonics Dance pg. 6) "1. I really love her program because you can do it with any basal or reading program you already have at your school. She is still teaching in the classroom and she kept it very real. How will I implement the Phonics Dance in my classroom?
I am going to do the alphabet review daily. Jail words. Meacham word work ideas. Word work for us consists of VOCABULARY, SPELLING, PHONEMIC AWARENESS, and PHONICS. Each day I try to have three separate minilessons whole group. We also do a lot of word work during Guided Reading/Writing, Modeled Reading/Writing, Shared Reading/Writing, and Independent Reading/Writing. We use the White Board, SMART Board, and Pocket Chart. We use magnet letters and letter cards. We use books, poetry, notebooks, and charts.
I use a combination of resources to address these four areas areas: VOCABULARY, SPELLING, PHONEMIC AWARENESS, and PHONICS. This is a great little piece on Phonics and Phonemic Awareness. What is on your walls? Color and Number Word Wall (Kindergarten, 2005-2006)- Based on T.L.C. I decided to create a dual word wall that focus on both numbers and colors, because my kinders were also working on shapes, I wanted to incorporate "TLC-style" art projects. Color Word Wall (First Grade, 2004 - 2005) - Based on Jane Cabrera's Book Cat Colors Portable Word Walls Sight Words. Star cloud moon sight word groups.
Spelling task ideas. Word Work Center etc. Whew! It's been a crazy-hectic day! I spent a ton of time in the classroom labeling books, laminating, setting up centers, and completing a plethora of other little odd jobs. I think I rearranged bookshelves and desks at least four times. My room is finally shaping up the way I want it to be, especially since I have two more bookshelves now! I have two days of "new" teacher orientation on Monday and Tuesday, and then my first official teacher day is the 19th. I will be addressing several questions from my lovely followers throughout the week. I will be sharing some of my other centers for the Daily 5 throughout the week. FREE Boggle Template Make a New Game Every Time - Rachel Lynette. Boggle Board w/ Printable!!! I have been working on some new ideas for my students to do during their Daily Five "Word Work" rotation.
A couple days ago I posted about my Word of the Week Graphic Organizer. Another idea I had was inspired by a couple different sources. I first saw the idea for a Boggle bulletin board on Pinterest. Click here to see the pic. Then I saw a post on Clutter-Free Classroom that further inspired me. Here is a picture of the Boggle Bulletin Board that I put up today: {I'll have more pics from my room when I finish later this week!!!} I printed up the following letters on card stock, cut them out, and laminated them. My plan is to change the letters {bi}weekly. {Click the pic to share!} This will probably be a "last choice" for word work. I have seen so many wonderful classroom pics. Work with Words Menu.pdf. Sight Words {and} Chants. Every week, I introduce the kids to two new sight words. I have a sign on the outside of my door that looks like this: Sorry – it’s not the best picture – the flash didn’t like the laminating!
Underneath the construction paper flap are two sticky notes with the weeks’ sight words on it. The children have to tell me the sight words each time they enter the room. They get SO excited whenever there is a new sight word! You can download your own password sign by clicking on the picture below. Psst: You can use these signs for more than just sight words! Each week, we also write our new sight words to hang on our fridge. (You could easily do this with letters too!) And I also add the word to magnetic white boards: Throughout the day, I’ll mix up the letters and ask children to come up and fix the words.
Here is the sight word page for you as well as an alphabet page! Disclaimer: I do not do letter of the week in my classroom. Okay, here’s the fun part! The kids went NUTS over them! [roll and spell] Anyone else feeling overwhelmed/swamped/behind?! We have parent conferences next week and I'm freaking out just a little. With recess duty this week, ILPs tomorrow during prep, 4 piano lessons to teach tonight, math class tomorrow night (with an assignment due that I haven't started yet), and a district PLC on Friday that I get to lead, I'm kind of in a "Piglet" state - you know, where every.little.thing makes me stutter and twitch?! Clearly I need to plan better. :) I'm also concerned with about 6 of my little monsters' spelling skills.
They are not passing their weekly spelling tests. They struggle with daily writing because their spelling skills are so undeveloped. While we work every day on phonics and spelling skills, these little monkeys need more repetition. However, this is the same group where more repetition = mass revolt. Unless. . .there is variety in the repetition. This game hits that every time! This definitely is NOT my original idea. These print 2 to a page. Sight words on ppt. Word work unit idea. Is it just me or does anybody else lose sleep at night contemplating and changing the way they run their phonics and word study programs? Ok...seriously I am not THAT bad.
Although I have a strong foundation in phonics instruction, I have just never really implemented/tried a program that I have loved and found completely effective for my students. Honestly, I feel guilty when I see my higher-level learners completely bored and my challenged kiddos feeling completely overwhelmed. Then I am unsure of whether or not to make the lesson harder/easier, not to mention the fact that some of the students (no matter how hard they try) never really seem to master all of those high frequency words.
Well....I came across the amazingly awesome Beth Newingham's post on Scholastic. I think I spent several hours really digesting the new information and deciding upon how I would try and modify/implement her 3rd grade program into my 2nd grade classroom.