I'm a little late on this one. I had intended to take my book with me on vacation and link up while I was there and when I got to the cabin and went to get my book to read on the back deck I was sad to see that I forgot the book. So here goes....better late than never. Right?
Thanks to Crystal at Kreative in Kinder and Little Miss. Kindergarten.
1. Experimenting with words
for learning and practicing a spelling pattern (brainstorm a list of ways you
can do this)
I plan to start with letter recognition gradually introducing ways that we can work on our sight words in the same ways. I will start with letter matching games where kids can practice matching uppercase with lowercase letters. I will use:
magnetic letters
white boards
Play Dough with stamps or where they can roll the dough to make letters
letter tiles
stamps
file folder games
and anything else I come across with on Pinterest ;)
2. Memorize high frequency
words (How often do you introduce new words? Do your students have their own
lists of words that they can work on? How will you keep track of words that they
already know?
Being a Pre-K teacher I have not started HFW till around the 4th quarter. However, this year another Pre-K teacher and I have decided to start earlier. I will start with their names on the word wall and all number, color and shape words at first. I have seen some great ideas where teachers have put words into groups and used sticker books where kids get stickers when they learn words and celebrate as a class when everyone in the class learns a list. I would like to use these ideas in my room.
3. Generalize spelling
patterns (brainstorm a list of ways you can do this).
At the beginning of the year I will be working on basic sight words. Later in the year I will work on word families and use those spelling patterns. I will not get into phonemes and blends.
4. Adding to our knowledge
and curiosity of unique and interesting words. (What is the best way to do
this?)
As far as nonsense words go, I have not experimented with these at all and wouldn't even know where to begin. Since I am just starting with sight words I think I want to focus on that this year and perfect that before trying something else.
Other things to think
about:
· What materials do I
already have?
I already have the materials that I listed above in question one. I also have boxes/baskets to store them in and a shelf that I plan to keep everything on.
What materials would I like to get?
I wold love to have some more baskets/bins from Really Good Stuff to make everything uniform but for now I will use my hodge podge of storage containers since I have already bought new baskets for my library and book bins for my kids.
How will I store
them?
I will use boxes/baskets to store each activity. Stamps, magnetic letters and tiles will have Ziploc bags to hold them so that students can grab a bag and take it to their work space.
· Where will students
work?
Students will be able to work wherever they like. I will likely encourage students to work at their seats for some activities but I want to keep with the theme of giving them choice.
Writing
As I read the writing portion of this chapter I was faced with some ideas completely opposite of what I had originally visioned writing looking like in my room. Since my students will not have any prior knowledge of writing or letters, much less words I have to consider what they are capable of. As the year starts, I was to have the kids working on the mechanics of writing. I have a specific are that I intend on using for writing that will be the writing center. In the writing center students will have a choice of what they want to do. Students will be able to work on letters, sight words or writing their names or friends' names. I will have paper, slates, magnetic boards, and white boards for students to write on. Once students have the mechanics down and we have worked on sounding out words I will have them start drawing pictures and labeling them.
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