It's been some time since I last posted but I'll try to write more regularly on this blog. To begin for today:
This week's spelling words (hot, mop, not, dog, pot, sob,rope, and boat) are concentrating on the vowel "o". The list is shorter this week because of the more varying endings (notice that not many words rhyme, as they have in previous weeks) and because of the addition of two more difficult words (rope and boat) that illustrate some phonetic rules.
The first rule is the "magic e" one - where the silent "e" jumps over the consonant to its left and makes the vowel say its own name.
The second rule is "When 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking and it says its own name." So in the word boat, where the vowels "o" and "a" are adjacent, the first one is the one you hear while the second one is silent.
We've been working on Hallowe'en vocabulary, practising the following words: bats, witch, pumpkin, goblin, spider webs, spooky, vampire, monster, skeleton, dark night, trick or treat, rats, full moon, hoot owl, haunted house, costume, mask, mummy, and brew. If the students have trouble remembering the words, the best prompt to give them is to say, "What do you know about this word?" Often the first letter of the word will trigger the student's awareness of the word.
We've also been working on the symbols for "greater than" (>) , "less than" (<), and "equal" in math - comparing 3 witch hats with 5, for example, and representing the answer this way: 3 < 5. We've also been working on adding and subtracting using sums up to 10. We use smartboard figures that can be moved around, or pumpkin/ghost counters at their desks to practise. (This is where the ability to count forward and backward REALLY helps!) We watched a great Hallowe'en short video last week. Just click on the following words:
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