Grade 3 Partner Pictures

Missing in action: Miguel, Dakohta

Grade 1 -Partner Pictures

Questionnaire

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JK/SK Leaders

         Here are a few pictures of the leaders for PALS today. I always like to see the students get excited to lead the class! 

         Also, the JK/SK class has been getting letter sound stamps in the morning. I put a stamp on their hand before we do morning prayer so they know which hand to use for the sign of the cross. So I thought, let's make it cross-curricular and have the stamp be a letter sound we are working on. Today we were working on the "u" sound so you may notice a little "u" (as in umbrella) on your son/daughters right hand. 

Grade 3 - James and the Giant Peach

Good Monday Morning!

         In Grade 3 we are working on Retell while reading James and The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl. It is one of my favourite read alouds to do with the students. One of the activities the students like to do is to roll the "Retell Cubes." I purchased these foam cubes a few years ago, and they are always a hit with the students. There are many different retell questions that are on them.

Each day before we begin our partner reading, I read a short chapter and we discuss what we have read.

Roll-a-Word (Grade 1's)

Today the Grade 1's had fun playing "Roll-a-Word" before partner reading. The students took turns rolling and reading the sight words. 

Happy Friday

It was a fun day in JK/SK today! We sang  and danced to Dr. Jean songs using the projector....even listened to the Lego Movie song because Everything is AWESOME! Have a good weekend. 

Here are a few pictures from yesterday.

During free time Faith and Joshua wanted to do more PALS :)

KPALS Practice

Hi Everyone! Just finished making a presentation for my wonderful kindergarten class for tomorrow.

Grade 1 Sight Word Practice

Click the links below for Sight Word games:

Primary Games

Dolch Games

Bingo Game

Dolch Word Games

More Games

JK/SK PALS Review

I made this slideshow for my kiddos in JK/SK. The letter sounds and words are no different than the ones I use in the lessons on chart paper, but sometimes adding the projector and presentation makes things more interesting.

Feel free to download and use with your son/daughter at home. At the top of each slide are the instructions to ask them. For example, "What Sound?"

Letter Factory

Today the JK/SK students enjoyed watching "Letter Factory," by Leap Frog. Here is a sample from the movie. I bought this a few years ago at Target for my own son to review the letters and sounds. 

Check it out! 

Here is a picture of the DVD cover. 

More Pictures ...

The students are settling nicely into the PALS routine. I will be testing letter sounds (JK/SK & Gr. 1) and sight words (Gr. 1) this week. 

JK/SK Review

The JK/SK class has been working very hard on learning their sounds and words.  The following are a list of the sounds we have worked on so far:

a	f
b	g
c	m
d	t
i	n

Sight Words to Practice:

the

is

was

on

and

One strategy you may want to try is print these sounds and words and review nightly with your child. 

We have also been working on the -at (cat, sat, rat, bat) and -an (man, can, etc.) word families. 

TGIF

Logan is the Leader today! 

Hocus Pocus ...everyone focused!