Classroom Activities

Harvest Festival Fun (Thanks Michael and Cambria!), we made a vegetable frittata and the labels for all the school-made food

Writing-Children wrote about their experiences at the Harvest Festival or Bike to School Day

Continued Practice with HFW using songs/poems, flashcards, games, and books

Continued review of letters in cursive, specifically d, o, a, c, g, h, t, p and the digraphs ch & th

Continued Practice of the 'long vowel' sounds, specifically 'silent e' words like lake, bike, etc

Word Family practice for spelling and reading, especially with o words ( ex-og family: dog, bog, jog, etc) and with silent e words (ex-ike family: Mike, like, bike)

Short Vowel and Long Vowel comparisons (ex-rat/rate, hop/hope, etc)

Small group work has begun (Thanks Michael, Erik, Kerry, Cambria and Nicki for signing up to volunteer!), each week students have individualized attention to work on their HFWs and support their phonics practice of silent e

Small group reading of Halloween themed stories

Reading Comprehension-Story Elements (character, setting, conflict, solution) practice using the familiar story The Little Red Hen

Reader’s Theater to practice fluency There was an Old Lady Who was not Afraid of Anything

Songs and Poems: A Sailor went to Sea, Five Little Pumpkins

Whole group read aloud of Bandit’s Moon by Sid Fleischman

At Home Activities

Continue reading nightly

Continue practicing HFWs

Have your child sing one of our songs. Work together to write it down.

Make an "O Book" by taking pictures of, or drawing, objects that have both the short O (dog, ostrich) and the long O (hope, yo-yo).

Print the pictures, and have your child write/dictate the words of the book.

Find th or ch or silent e words in books