We learned/reviewed that sentences begin with a capital letter and end with punctuation in our grammar lessons. We also reviewed that names, days of the week, and months of the year are capitalized.
We use special paper (which you have likely seen go home in the Wednesday Folder) to practice writing out sentences.
This is an Orton-Gillingham approach. We pound each syllable (right now we are only writing sentences with one-syllable words) and use the visual cues to help write the sentence! Each word fits on a line. If the word is double underlined, it means it is a "red word," or "sight word," or "word to know" (we use all of those terms) and can not be sounded out. The mountain is the clue for capitalizing the first letter, and the box reminds us to put punctuation!
COPS is what they do after they have written their sentence to check for; capitalization, organization, punctuation and spelling. Each time they rewrite the given sentence, they have fewer cues and clues! Their work is pretty impressive :)
We also worked on writing sentences during Work on Writing! We following the process of gathering ideas/getting started, prewriting, editing, then publishing! Check out an example below!
This week, we also published our book of possessive nouns! You will see that coming home soon. We started in alphabet order by last name and each student will get it for a night at home!
This week, we also did some more work with counting ON. We were having a little trouble distinguishing that from just counting the numbers, so we did an activity to help clarify! I would tell the students their starting number and ending number, and the rest of the class would count how many jumps they made :) See our video below! (And picture in case the video doesn't work for you).
You may have, at this point, heard about "Test Friday!" These guys are such troopers!!! They have to concentrate and stay focused to do their best on our weekly assessments - and it's not simple task! Luckily, we get time for a brain break after each assessment, and after each section of our story test.
At this point in the year, I am reading them the directions and answer choices out loud. The only thing I don't read to them is the phonics portion of the story test. Luckily, we do so much fun "work" with phonics, they are successful!
Check out this video of us taking a brain break! This is one of our favorites: it's called "Field Trip!" You have to dodge and duck and jump over obstacles and you end at a place or thing. The program then walks you through some facts about it and sometimes has a short, educational video to go along with your trip!
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