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. Making words folder w/ stickies. Hi Friends!
Kerri here...So this is me! 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. Clearly, this allows her to do a rotation of 3 intensive small groups daily. So, here's what I came up... {These are all of the sheets I am using to make. 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. 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. 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. 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!!! 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!) [roll and spell] Anyone else feeling overwhelmed/swamped/behind?!
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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. 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?
