We have had a very productive few days. On our short Wednesday, we got to learn with Mr. Khang. The students had a great time learning about the ow/ou sounds with him. They watched an alphablocks video that included both oi/oy and ow/ou. I have posted it below. They also worked in three different centres to practice reading and writing words that had the ou/ow digraph.
Over the past few days, we have been focusing on fact families. While this is a very difficult skill to master, I am happy to report that after plenty of practice, stories, drawing houses, and discussing families, I think that all of our little learners have a firm grasp on this concept. We will further review it next week, and introduce fact triangles. On top of the Daily 5, we have spent the last couple days learning about voiced sounds and unvoiced sounds, for letters. We began simply by identifying voiced and unvoiced 'th' sounds for example: 'th' in the word 'these' makes our throat vibrate when we say it, and 'th' in the word 'third' does not. Today we tried this with a few more letters where we put the ones that don't wiggle (vibrate) in bed, and the ones that do, needed to stay awake. There is a photo below. If you are wondering why we are focusing on this unique skill, it is because we will be working on 'ed' endings next week. In order to know whether 'ed' makes the 'id', 't' or 'd' sound at the end of the word, they need to be able to identify voiced consonants. This will take a great deal of practice for our ELL learners. During our UOI time, we have finished our LEGO stories, read them to friends, made revisions based on feedback, and will be turning them into LEGO movies next week with some help from the third grade class. Please check out the LEGO Learning section of our website for more info on this action research. In order to understand digital storytelling, we watched some clips from the LEGO movie. Phase two of my action research on digital storytelling will begin next week. Thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback. Surveys will be emailed soon, and your child's LEGO stories will be posted to their portfolios.
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