Global Read Aloud

This year, our class will be participating in a project called the Global Read Aloud.  This project will start October 2nd and will run for approximately 6 weeks.  The idea behind it is very simple; teachers around the world read the same books aloud to their students and then use technology to share the reading experience with these other classrooms.  It is a free project and it fits perfectly into the curriculum standards we have to cover.

During the project, our class will be reading 5 different picture books by Indigenous authors, Julie Flett and Monique Gray Smith and connecting with students around the world who are reading the same book.  We will use technology tools such as Skype, Twitter and email to facilitate these connections and conversations.

We are very excited to connect with others, especially since more than 400,000 students are already signed up to participate.  This project will allow for students to use technology tools in a meaningful way, as well as learn about other cultures, all while listening to a fantastic read aloud.  

If you would like more information about the Global Read Aloud, feel free to visit the website www.theglobalreadaloud.com or I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.  I look forward to starting this exciting project with your child, as well as seeing the connections we will make.

All my best,

Mrs. Soloway

FRYE Grade 1 Words

Hello Families,

Here are the FRYE 100 SIGHT WORDS list . These word can be used to guide your child’s reading and writing throughout the year. We are sharing them with you so you can reference them while reading and writing daily with your child. Some tricks and fun activities are included. .

Remember, reading can be done anywhere, any time and any place!

THE	OF	AND	A	TO
IN	IS	YOU	THAT	IT
HE	WAS	FOR	ON	ARE
AS	WITH	HIS	THEY	I
AT	BE	THIS	HAVE	FROM
OR	ONE	HAD	BY	WORDS
BUT	NOT	WHAT	ALL	WERE
WE	WHEN	YOUR	CAN	SAID
THERE	USE	AN	WHICH	EACH
SHE	DO	HOW	THEIR	IF
WILL	UP	OTHER	ABOUT	OUT
MANY	THEN	THEM	THESE	SO
SOME	HER	WOULD	MAKE	LIKE
HIM	INTO	TIME	HAS	LOOK
TWO	MORE	WRITE	GO	SEE
NUMBER	NO	WAY	COULD	PEOPLE
MY	THAN	FIRST	WATER	BEEN
CALLED	WHO	AM	ITS	NOW
FIND	LONG	DOWN	DAY	DID
GET	COME	MADE	MAY	PART

 

FUN GAMES TO PRACTICE SIGHT WORDS AT HOME

Scavenger Hunt : Search and tally for the words in a book.

Paper Plate Toss: Write sight words on paper plates. Use them like frisbees to throw after reading the word. Add in some additional fun by adding a target.

Flashlight Words: Turn off the lights. Tape words on the wall or ceiling. Use the flashlight to sine on the word, then have your child read it.

Go Fish: Wish a duplicate set of word cards play “Go Fish.” You can easily make your own cards out of index cards.

Stepping Stones: Place the word cards on the floor, making a fun stream going across the room. Have your child walk over the stream. As they step onto the stepping stone (word), have them say the word before they move on to get to the other side of the stream.

Tic-Tac-Toe: Write words in the tac-tac-toe spaces. Take turns selecting a space to read. If read correctly, an X or O is placed on the space until someone wins.

Word-O: This is played just like BINGO. Fill in a card with the words that you are working on. Call out the words and mark the spaces. The first one with a card covered calls out the word “WORDO!”

Word Hunt: Look for target words in books or in the newspaper. If using the newspaper your child can highlight or circle the words that she finds.

Word Jump: Write the sight words onto the driveway. Call out a word. Have your child jump their way to the sight word.

SNAP: You put the sight words you want them to practice on flash cards and put the flash cards into a jar. Also, you write the word SNAP on a few flash cards and put them in to the jar. The kids can play in partners or in a groups of 3 or 4 with siblings. They take turns pulling a card out of the jar. If they can say the word on the card automatically with no struggle, they get to keep the card. If they struggle, they have to put it back. If they pull out one of the cards that says SNAP, they have to put all of the card they’ve drawn back. The first person to 5 cards (or 10) wins!

Sept 21 - The Weekly Footprint

Class Parent

Hello Room 221 Families, 

Shari Lawrence (Ava's Mom) will be our Class Parent this year. She will help organize class volunteers, celebrations and field trips - and maybe some more ideas/events that come up along the way! 

If you said YES to volunteering, please make sure that you have an up to date Police Reference Check completed. Forms are available at our school office. 

Please reach out to her (her info is on the Class Directory that was sent out on Friday), or by email at sbesharati@gmail.com if you have any questions. 

Thank you!

Lindsay Soloway

Words of the Week

Consonant Review / Sight Words

These will be our focus words for this week : SEPT. 17. - SEPT. 21

As a class, we will be exploring, playing, writing, drawing and

practising these words all week.

YOU

AND

BY

WE

HE

TO

OF

ON

WAS

THE

IS

IN

HAVE

BE

FOR

At home ideas:

• You can use materials in your home to build the words (buttons, popsicle sticks, lego, playdough etc.)
• Use magnetic letters to spell the words in fun places in the house, or even on a baking tray.
• You can look for the words in your child’s books, or anywhere in the house...having cereal for breakfast? Look to see if any of your sight words are on the box!
• Point out words when you are out with your child (on a sign in the grocery store for example!)
• If your child knows how to read the words, challenge them to write as many as they can in a sentence or a story. Then circle the words and count how many you wrote.

Book Exchange Information....

BOOK EXCHANGE

Today your child brought

home ONE library book and ONE levelled reader.

Library books are to be returned to school every day 4.

We will have LEVELED BOOK exchange every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

This will be on a ‘ticket’ system: Bring your leveled book back, and get a new one.

Levelled readers help your child with his/her fluency, decoding, comprehension, rhythm and increase his/her reading power.

The more your child reads, the better reader your child will become.

I will facilitate which level your child should be bringing home.  He/She should ultimately be reading at an independent level at home and at an instructional level at school.

Keep track of his/her reading on the READING BINGO card (attached); and connect with your child with questions and conversations!

Thank you and Happy Reading!

Mrs. Soloway

Our SEPTEMBER Shared Reading!

Here is the poem and song that our class been reading in class for September! 

We have been focusing on recognizing and making connections to concepts of print, and playing 'I Spy' with sight words; in addition to framing our first Social Studies unit, Who Am I? 

You can listen to the song here: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCUGMMEF2Zk&list=OLAK5uy_nkLGGQwi5WFoQCcSb5JScLLwo1ZgbBnqM

Free to Be... You and Me

The New Seekers

There's a land that I see where the children are free
And I say it ain't far to this land from where we are
Take my hand, come with me, where the children are free
Come with me, take my hand, and we'll live

In a land where the river runs free
In a land through the green country
In a land to a shining sea
And you and me are free to be you and me

I see a land bright and clear, and the time's comin' near
When we'll live in this land, you and me, hand in hand
Take my hand, come along, lend your voice to my song
Come along, take my hand, sing a song

For a land where the river runs free
For a land through the green country
For a land to a shining sea
For a land where the horses run free
And you and me are free to be you and me

Every boy in this land grows to be his own man
In this land, every girl grows to be her own woman
Take my hand, come with me where the children are free
Come with me, take my hand, and we'll run

To a land where the river runs free
To a land through the green country
To a land to a shining sea
To a land where the horses run free
To a land where the children are free
And you and me are free to be
And you and me are free to be
And you and me are free to be you and me

Songwriters: Bruce Hart / Stephen Lawrence