Sight Word Eggs

Today we each wrote words and tucked them into plastic eggs.  Then the kids hid their eggs around the room.  When all the eggs were hidden the kids then went looking for eggs.  They brought the eggs back to circle and read the words inside.  We used sight words as well as palindromes (words spelled the same backward as forward). Whenever somebody came up with a palindrome we put it on our new chart.  So far we have the following words on our chart:  wow, did, hannah anna, peep, pop kayak, dad, mom, noon, bib, bob, and pip.  See if you can add any to our list with your child.

The kiddos are also taking bookmarks home today.  These bookmarks have strategies to read tough words.  The strategies include: looking at the picture, saying the first and last sound, stretching the word out, finding chunks you can read in the word, skipping it and reading on, trying different sounds that letters can make, go back to the beginning and try again.  Then, if you still can't read the word, ask for help.  We will be focussing many lessons on these strategies and it will help if you also support this work at home.

Tomorrow is going to be exciting as we use natural objects to dye eggs!

Guess the Number

Today we had fun working in pairs with a 100 grid.  One child would close his eyes while the other circled a number on the grid.  Then the child with the closed eyes put his finger on the grid while his partner guided him to find the circled number.  The directions given were up, down, left or right.  When the child found the circled  number he had to say what it was.  The kids enjoyed playing this game.  We also had to find purple word cards hidden around the room.  Once found the class sorted the words into "an" and "am" piles.  You could do this at home with our kindergarten sight words, or with the first grade words that will be coming home next week as so many members of our class already mastered the kindergarten words.