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Week of 10/8 - 10/12:
Week of 10/8 - 10/12:
This week, we worked on building a community of learners. We introduced ourselves and got to know more about each other as readers. We discussed what good readers do and set some personal reading goals for ourselves. We chose a name for our group that defines who we are as readers. The name we chose is: Go Blue Best Buddies.
We discussed our 4 school rules: take care of yourself, take care of others, take care of our school, and always try our best. We discussed how these would look, sound, and feel in our reading group. We all signed the rules we came up with and agreed to implement them in our group.
We also discussed why reading is important and talked about how we can do our best when reading together. We went over some classroom resources and how to use these tools to help us do our best.
Building this community of learners will ensure that your children feel safe to take academic risks and know they are supported. We will continue to reinforce these concepts all year long.
Check below to see some of the texts we began working on. Your child will love reading these to you at home!
G2 Frog Food.pdfWe began by reading this story to practice what daily reading would look like in Go Blue. Our purpose for reading was to find out what Froggy likes to eat and what he likes most
G11 Flying.pdfIn this book, we used Eagle Eye to help us read all of the things that the little bear flying in the plane saw. We were so surprised to learn at the end that all of the toys the bear saw were going to a party just for Bear!
Week of 10/15 - 10/19:
Week of 10/15 - 10/19:
This week, we read three instructional texts and began to work more on writing and phonics. We have been discussing how readers can figure out a word they do not know. We practiced two strategies: Eagle Eye (looking at the picture for help) and Lips the Fish (checking the first sound in a word for help.) This is just one of many other strategies we will learn. We talked about how those strategies help us when we are reading. We also worked on making predictions using our two texts this week. We also began working on our phonics by building words in word families. This week we have been working with word families with the short vowel a, for example, words that end with -at, -ad. Please find the book links below to see what texts we have been working on. They will love reading these to you!
G13 The Painter.pdfThis book is another favorite in the Froggy series. In this book, Froggy is painting many things. After reading this book, we enjoyed writing about something that we would like to paint just like Froggy.
G15 Jesse.pdfOur last book for the week, was a book that introduced us to the characters Jesse and Sam. In this book, we had to be detectives to figure out what Jesse's favorite color was. We enjoyed rainbow writing some of the sight words that we saw in the story, using many of our own favorite colors.
Week of 10/21 - 10/25:
Week of 10/21 - 10/25:
This week, we read three instructional texts and began to work more on writing and phonics. We have been discussing how readers can figure out a word they do not know. We practiced the two strategies we previously learned: Eagle Eye (looking at the picture for help) and Lips the Fish (checking the first sound in a word for help.) These are just two of many other strategies we will learn. We talked about how those strategies help us when we are reading. We worked on comparing and contrasting as well as retelling a story using beginning, middle, and end and discussed what the word "sequence" means. We also continued working on our phonics by building words in word families. This week we have been working with and reviewing word families with the short vowel a, for example, words that end in -at, -ad, -ap. Please find the book links below to see what texts we have been working on. They will love reading these to you!
G17 Oh No.pdfWe enjoyed reading this book and especially loved reading the speech bubbles with a lot of expression focusing on punctuation marks including an exclamation point. We even tried to make our own speech bubbles in our writing after making predictions about who was making the mess at home.
G19 Family Pictures.pdfWe practiced the sight word “this.” We focused on tracking the text and using the beginning sounds and picture clues to figure out unknown words. We made a prediction as to what would happen at the end of the story.
G21 Orsons Tummy Ache.pdfWe were introduced to Orson and Taco, two dogs who get into trouble together. We discussed why someone could have a tummy ache. We read this text to find out why Orson has a tummy ache and what happens after he eats all that food. With this text, we focused on making connections to understand the story.
Week of 10/28 - 11/1:
Week of 10/28 - 11/1:
This week, we read two instructional texts. We have been discussing how readers can figure out a word they do not know. We practiced using the decoding strategy Stretchy Snake to help us "stretch out" or "tap out" sounds in unknown words. We worked on identifying the Main Idea of the books we read and recalling the book's details. We also continued working on our phonics by building words in word families. This week we have been working on the -ag word family words (ex. bag, tag, rag). Please find the book links below to see what texts we have been working on. They will love reading these to you!
G23 Bubbles.pdfG25 Mom and Kayla.pdfWe discussed that this text is nonfiction because it is real. In this story, we worked on main idea and details: bubbles are found everywhere in different forms. We discussed how these bubbles are the same and different. We read to find out about the different places one can find bubbles.
In this story, Kayla’s mom is a firefighter and Kayla had similar equipment. We were reading to find out why Kayla might be wearing firefighter equipment. We discussed how mom’s things were real while Kayla’s were pretend. The students were able to infer that Kayla probably might want to be a firefighter just like her mom.
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