Starfall

Hey Parents,
I hope you have found time this year for your student to take advantage of the site Starfall. Much of the site offers resources for beginner readers for FREE! This week during computer time many of the students have been reading or listening to these short plays from the site. As a class we read the play "The Lion and The Mouse".  Click the link below, and it will take you to the short plays so if they have not had a chance to listen to them they still have a chance to do so:

  http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/plays/load.htm?f

 

Mrs. Barnes



Videos for teaching Long "U" sounds

Hey Parents,
We have been learning all about the different letter combinations that make the long "u" sound. Here are some of the videos I have been using, let your students watch them again to reinforce the skill at home. Click the link, and it will take you there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZIxKI-Gxk&list=PLtPoovv4KdsIk1ypWd9VlKPEawNWOI-PS

 



Videos for Teaching the Long O Sounds

Hey Parents,
We have been learning all about the different letter combinations that make the long "o" sound. Here are some of the videos I have been using, let your students watch them again to reinforce the skill at home. Click the link, and it will take you there:

 

 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmDRUPrxWs&list=PLRobggFI-BzRuACiGobLhwodD3qbtUTWH

 

 

Mrs. Barnes



Videos teaching long I

Hey Parents,
We have been learning all about the different letter combinations that teach long I. Here are some of the videos I have been using, let your students watch them again to reinforce the skill at home. Click the link, and it will take you there:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQwZ81K4FPQ

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_8yz11Pqc&list=PL483C64CD3022F4E7

 

 

Mrs. Barnes



Becoming Authors

This week we have been busy reading "If Your Give a Pig a Pancake" by. Laura Numeroff. It is a student favorite. We also read "If You Give a Moose a Muffin". We then created our own "If You Give a _____ a _____". We did one as a class, then as a group, finally as an individual. Our group/ class versions were done very simply on big paper folded into eighths.  You can see below the class one then the group ones.  The top was done as a class. On the group one they got to add pictures. Then the last image is some individual ones.

 

If your child would like to try this activity again you can right click on the picture below and print the image! Enjoy!

 

 

Rosa Parks

 

In January and going into the beginning of February we had a big focus on black history.  One of the people we studied was Rosa Parks.

We learned a poem about her, and read a short story. We discussed how she made a difference in so many lives. We also wrote about what she did. We all agreed she was really brave. We finished it off with making a craft of Rosa Parks sitting in her bus seat.  We are so fortunate to have such fabulous people make such a  difference in this country.

Life as a Crab

 

I am behind on posting. We had a story a little bit ago about a Hermit crab finding a new home. We concluded the story with a writing activity of what we though it would be like if we were a crab.