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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: Awesome Readers.
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
G1 Waking Up.pdfIn this text, we talked about different animals that live on a farm and the noises that they make! We also created sentences from the book using sentences strips that we had to fix. We focused on what goes at the beginning of a sentence and what goes at the end of a sentence.
Week of 10/14 - 10/18:
Week of 10/14 - 10/18:
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 one strategy: Eagle Eye (looking at the picture 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. Please find the book links below to see what texts we have been working on. They will love reading these to you!
G3 The New Puppy.pdfWe were introduced to a character we will read about in the Meli series: Meli, the dog. We read to find out what Ron got for his new puppy. We focused on tracking the text and using the beginning sounds and picture clues to figure out unknown words.
G4 Friends.pdfIn this book, we loved reading about our two favorite pups Orson and Taco! We talked about how they are friends and made connections about our own friends. We also discussed the differences between the big things in the book and the little things in the book just like Orson and Taco!
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!
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!
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 10/28 - 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!
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.
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