The K-1 students will be focusing on developing reading fluency starting this March 2015. | The K-1 students are getting ready for Reading Awareness Month by making a jump from "being read to" to "becoming readers." We've read "Goodnight, Gorilla" as a class to get ourselves familiar with the different animals we will see at the zoo. |
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By helping students being able to read - even if it is simply reading the ABC's - we will be able to create a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence. These traits will then lead to confidence and enjoyment in learning and reading later on. My students in the Pre-K class have done superb jobs on their individual projects and readings. We will continue to develop reading fluency and literacy in the following months to come. Keep up the good work!
I’m really proud of what the K-2 students have done. It really shows that they’ve understood what being kind means, and (most importantly) they’ve taken a step towards contributing to a better society. Furthermore, it goes to show that good values taught from home can really benefit the learning environment. I’m very happy – even elated! – to see such wonderful progress by these kids.
P.S. I’m very excited to have been able to sneak letter writing practice into today’s lesson.
The K-2 students did not disappoint me at all. In fact, they have surprised me with how quick they were able to read and find the words. I’ve also gotten requests to do this activity again so there’s a really high possibility that we will be doing another Scavenger Hunt soon. What is Literacy?As an educator, I believe that the key objective of pre-school and kindergarten education is to help students develop literacy. The word “literacy” itself is generally believed to be the ability to read, write, and speak. Thus, the commonly used word “literate” (or even “illiterate”) is used synonymously with “literacy.” However, literacy is much more than that. Literacy is in fact the ability for students to make meaning (meaningful interpretations) of what they have learned, read, and/or heard. In simpler words, literacy is the ability for the students to apply what they have learned to themselves, and each literacy experience is unique.
By combining fun and play with education, the students will be able to learn without realising that they are in fact doing an academic exercise. The word "academic" itself has powerful connotations of serious (perhaps even stressful) learning at school. So by showing the students that learning can be something that's enjoyable will make them (hopefully) have a more positive attitude towards school and academics. This will lead to a higher quality in the student's individual learning experience and literacy development. The K-3 students have made blueberry paper pizzas during Reading class today. The objectives of this activity are: The kids and I really enjoyed working on this project together to promote literacy. We've also had a lot of very interesting conversations today about a book we've read a couple of months ago called "The Book With No Pictures" by B. J. Novak. We've taken the idea of making blueberry pizzas from this particular book. P.S. Two thumbs up to Natcha for accurately writing the instructions for making blueberry pizza!
worksheet required them to count the number of different toppings their pizza has. I will be extending this math activity into our Active Learning class tomorrow. Later that afternoon, the K-2 students were asked to individually read a Sight Words book titled "Dinner". The book fitted perfectly with our activity (and vice versa) because it talked about the procedures in making pizza. The children were able to read the book by themselves more quickly and fluently because they're now familiar with the different vocabulary terms.
Our sight words this week are: I, Am, Can & You
I really do love the message found in this book. Our class has learned that no matter how small a person might be or how inferior they might feel inside, everyone is special and important. It doesn't matter if you're big or small, anyone can make a difference.
The students have also made their own clover with a white dust speck on it (a DIY pompom model) to help remind them of this important message. We've had a really great time discussing the book in class today, and we will be continuing to study this story over the next few weeks.
This project is meant to test the children's comprehension. Since the children were able to retell the story following Carle's original story patterns, they've demonstrated that they understood the story and have managed to identify the authour's writing style and patterns in written text. This learning style is very similar to what they will have to do in the future at higher level English (Reading, Literature) classes in high school and even university. Furthermore, this exercise has helped enhanced the students' digital and reading literacy skills. I'm very proud of what a dozen little scholars have been able to achieve and I look forward to challenging them even further in the future. It is such a beautiful sight when a child decides to do something nice for others. I know that a lot of parents and teachers will agree. Kindness is a valuable trait to have, and Kindness will help children (and adults) to build better and stronger relationships.
As we are approaching our next text, "Horton Hears a Who" by Dr. Seuss, I have prepared my students for our lessons on Kindness and Friendship. We have started the Kindness Tree project on the last Monday of the Second Quarter. Whenever a student does something nice for others, he or she will receive a heart. I will write the student's Act of Kindness on the heart and have the student stick the heart on the Kindness Tree. By Friday, January 30th, 2015, the door was nearly filled with Kindness Leaves. The students are beginning to realise that acts of kindness are rewarded. Even if their acts of kindness are not recognised by others, their good deeds will help shape their character and will also make them feel satisfied. |
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