Today we began our second set of letters: Dd, Ff, Tt, Rr, and Ii. Our main book this week will be How do Dinosaurs go to School. The children are still needing work on the roles of an author and illustrator. Last week we highlighted the work of Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond. This week our highlighted author and illustrator are Jane Yolen and Mark Teague. We introduced the connection between the two author / illustrator studies with the book If You Give a Dog a Donut. And, of course we had powdered donuts.
All of our literacy stations this week have activities centering on our book. Here the children match rhyming pictures then record the matches they found.
Another station involves the children drawing pictures of how a dinosaur should and should not behave at school. While six students work at the five literacy stations, another six are working on making their letter of the day hat and coloring their book.
The remaining group of five students works at the table with me. We are learning to identify the letters, match the capital and lower case letters, write the letters, identify beginning sounds, blend the sounds into words, track print, and form sentences.
As I have stated in previous blogs, the students need many opportunities to build their small motor skills. We are rolling playdough to form our letters of the week and picking up little dinosaurs with tweezers. We are in the path of a Tropical Storm, so school released early today. I had planned on making shape dinosaurs during our math rotations. We will have to do these another day, since our time ran out.
I plan on adding a new video showing a small group lesson with our letters of the week later in the week. Check back to view the lesson and see more fun things happening in our class.
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