Making words and sentences come alive!

Starfall Reading, Games, Activities, Learning and Fun!  The grade ones have been enjoying the activities and games on the Starfall website!  There are so many excellent learning experiences to explore!  Click on the link and check it out with your child tonight.  Learning and practising but they won’t even know it’s happening because they will be too busy having a blast!

Hey Grade 2s… check this out!  This is my newest find on the Internet!  Or as my son says..."the newest breakthrough in descriptive writing"!  He should know... he came home all excited and he couldn't wait to show it to me.  Now I'm excited about sharing it with you...here's the link…  Make your own pic lit!  We have been working on writing super sentences in class!  We have talked about adjectives, nouns, and verbs.  Most recently we have been learning how adjectives and descriptive words help the reader to visualise our writing.  This website is a wonderful way to learn new and exciting words and you can create your own SUPER SENTENCE with just the click and drag of a mouse!  Some of the pictures and words are above the grade two grade level but there are many great ones to pick from!
Mrs. Wolynice's PicLit...check it out!

New Favourite YouTube Videos!

I have posted a few new YouTube videos that we have been using in class.  Most have been used for the grade ones but the twos have enjoyed reviewing their chunks of sound in the “Double Phonics Chant”.  Both classes are encouraged to search for chunks of sound in the words they see every day!  

You may even want to turn the reading of the sound chunks into a race!  How fast can you read… an, et, and, in, it, ant?  When you get really fast mix them around and try again!  Grade twos should be using small chunks as well as the large chunks and spelling patterns we have learned, (i.e. ake, ent, ur, ir, ar, or, and, ite, etc…).   

Don’t forget to search my old Blogger posts for more EXCELLENT videos and ideas!

Coming soon...pictures of our new language bulletin boards! 

Phonics Song: That Magic e With Miss Jenny

Double Phonics Chant

JOLLY SONGS A-Z(from the big book JOLLY SONGS)

Grade One Language Stations

We have been very busy learning the rules and routines and we have been working very hard!  Sometimes our work doesn’t even seem like work!  Our language and math stations are a great example of the work we can’t wait to start!  This picture shows one of our grade one language stations.  The students are using magnets and sticky notes to create their own sentences using the word wall words we have learned and sounding out (for the words they do not know).