We spent time this past week doing Thanksgiving activities with many groups. We read and answered questions about Thanksgiving, read Thanksgiving poems, and even made Turkeys! The groups that made Turkeys put their reading words on the feathers so that they can practice reading over Thanksgiving break. We loved getting into the holiday spirit!!
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All of our students have been working very hard to improve each of their goals.
We used a fun turkey game to reinforce all the kids' hard work on their speech sounds! Hard work earned beautiful feathers to decorate the turkeys' tails! But we were careful not to draw a hunter or his dogs, because then you have to put feathers back!
Keziah is working on her goal of mastering the 'v' and 'f' sounds, and Caleb is working on his goal of perfecting s-blends. Awesome work, guys! Our kindergarten groups have been working VERY hard on their phonemic awareness skills. One of the main skills that we have been focusing on is identifying the first sound in words. Every other week, we monitor each student to see how many first sounds they can identify within words in 1 minute. We keep track of their scores on a graph in our room. Each student gets to mark their score on the graph and make a goal for where they want to be in the next two weeks. When a student reaches "the green section" (winter benchmark) three times, the student "graduates" from reading intervention.
This week we had 3 kindergartners graduate! Aireanna, Olivia, and Addison are all signing our diploma that hangs in the hallway to show the rest of school their hard work! Way to go girls!! We have many other kindergarten students who are getting SO close to getting "in the green" 3 times in a row! Keep up the GREAT work! We celebrated the Fall season with a mini pumpkin game while we worked on recognizing sounds. We have started identifying the last sounds of a word, and each right answer earned a candy! Jaxon, Aireanna, and Addison were VERY hard workers last Tuesday! You can see they were really thinking about those last sounds, and saying the words slowly to themselves to catch the last movements their mouths made to say each one! Great work, guys! |
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