Phonics Readers

I will be sending home phonics readers with your children. They have been told that they are to read them with you. When they have mastered the story, even if it is memorized, they may bring it back to me. Please sign your name to it and make sure their name is on it as well. Al and Max was sent home today.

Today we worked on picking just right books. We are learning a song to help us remember how to pick "just right" books. The classroom library is now open for business and the children are loving all the options. With so many options, they are getting a very good workout in picking the ones that are good fit books. We compared reading to learning to ride a bike. When you first begin to ride, you do not try it on a hill. It would be too difficult to go uphill and you would tip over. Likewise, a book that is an uphill book would be too difficult. It would be so dangerous to start down a hill and you would crash at a high rate of speed. Speeding through a book, would tell you it is to easy. But, if you learn to ride a bike on a flat surface, it is smooth sailing. A just right book is one in which you know almost all the words. I was overjoyed at the book choices the children were making. When I checked in on each one, I was able to see a conscious effort to pick the books that are just right for them.

Our day was filled with many more activities to many to count!  I suppose it is kind of like when you ask your child what they did at school today and they say, "Nothing."  To explain it, I would have to spend an entire day doing it!  I will simply say, I am very pleased with their work habits and abilities.  They are primed and ready for learning!