The first grade students have quite a full golden envelope today: a story to read to a willing audience, a spelling book to get a parent signature, and two Thanksgiving Day books. We began one on Thanksgiving colour in school (some of the students completed this one); the other is a Thanksgiving numbers book. Both books support patterned reading, and the use of picture prompts: two strategies to help beginning readers succeed. Many sight words (words that the students should know just by looking at them) are present in the books, and some of the words there can be decoded by the student if they ask themselves, "What do I know about this word?" (They might know it starts with a "c", and the sound that usually goes with that letter, they might remember that a "y" at the end of a word often has the long e sound, they might know a word that rhymes with the word they're looking at, etc.)
Both grade one and grade two students have spelling test books to be signed and returned to school Tuesday morning.
Thanks so much to everyone who sent contributions to the food bank. We used the cans/boxes today to count by 5's and 10s, to create patterns, and to create sorting systems; who knew how much you could learn from a can of soup!
Enjoy the long weekend, everyone! Happy Thanksgiving!
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