Language Arts

We have been focusing on learning ending sounds in words, making booklets of matching ending sounds in words, playing lotto games and making word chains based on the last sound in people's names. We have been making books about ourselves in the anti-bias curriculum we began exploring in January (more about this in another segment).

We have been retelling stories and talking about the beginning, middle and end of a story we have read. Children can then dictate what they recall from the beginning, middle and end. They have also been practicing sight words in three word panels. Using a word tile, they build a word with letter tiles and then write the word. We have begun practicing long vowels as well as short vowels in words.

We have also been assessing children throughout the school using the Benchmark Assessment System. This tracks how children are doing in their reading skills. We are currently working in beginning readers, having spent the fall in pre-decodable books. The kids are doing a great job in reading!