Reading Fever

I'm afraid my students haven't been feeling very good these last few week. They've all gotten reading fever! I think our book themes are the cause of their illness! Learning about nursery rhymes and author/illustrators has definitely gotten these students excited about reading. It's so fun to see them sounding out words and playing with rhymes.

Last week was all about nursery rhymes. On Monday we read some Mother Goose nursery rhymes, and made horns so we could be our own "Little Boy Blues". On Tuesday we read nursery rhymes about kings and queens! To get a better visual, the students took turns dressing up to look like true royalty.

Thursday was all about counting rhymes. The students made their own counting rhymes, and drew a picture to go with it. As an art project this week we made our own goofy Humpty Dumptys (before he fell off the wall).

This week we learned all about authors and illustrators. The students worked hard on Monday and Tuesday to write and illustrate their own book! The topic they chose was kittens, and they even typed out the story themselves! Once they spent as authors, they spend the next day coming up with a title (they decided on Kittens), drew the pictures, and assembled the books. And of course we read it then! You can expect Kittens to be available in your local bookstore soon!

On Thursday we read one of the first books written for children, Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter, The students made their own bunny ears, and had fun reenacting the story. Soon Mr. McGreggor (who I was assigned to be), called them over for a fun bunny snack!

Also throughout the week we read Goodnight Gorilla, which is one of my favorite books! To go along with the book we made gorilla faces!

In phonics we are continuing to go through different letter sounds. We have learned four out of five vowels, and ten consonants. The students are beginning to be able to sound out many three letter words. We have also been learning about capitalizing pronouns, spacing between words, alphabet sequencing, and punctuation.

We have been learning a lot of math this week too. WE can recognize and count up to 20, and have been measuring objects with a ruler. Dude's tank is 12 inches across!

With all this reading fever, I think it's a good thing that we have a week off next week. I hope everyone has a wonderful fall break! Remember, when you get back it's spirit week! The themes are:

Monday: Animal Day
Tuesday: Wacky hair/hat/sock day
Wednesday: Nerd day (Kinders not here)
Thursday: Twin/Triplet day
Friday: Class Competition (Kinders not here)