Language Arts

We are practicing our routines around Handwriting without Tears and Jolly Phonics. We are beginning to do some reading groups, again focused on learning routines more than on learning reading. We are doing basic measures of skill levels in the area of reading both to determine eligibility for Title I services and to begin to form reading groups.

We have Morning Meeting each day which is based on developing oral language skills. Children learn to share something that is important to them, listen to the message being read by one of the children,  repeat that message, greet each other by name and sing a song or play a game. Occasionally we do an activity such as Brain Gym.