Lots of ideas for making discovery bottles for children to make and/or observe.
Saw this post and it reminded me of what the early years (0-2 years) section of the Nursery, have in one of their sensory boxes. Not quite the same, but has given me a few ideas of what kind of sensory bottles to add :D
See Kels Learn: Phonics Week 1 →
This is the first week I am teaching phonics in my kindergarten student teaching placement. This will entail a 10-15 minute mini lesson and three small groups for the rest of 20 minutes each day. For the small groups, I will be doing beginning sounds with 4 students, my cooperative teacher will be doing segmenting CVC words with 4 students, and the rest of the students will be reading.
Here are a few of the activities I planned:
Phonics mini lesson:
As a group, we will use a pocket chart to sort these cutouts into those that start with the Dd sound and those that do not. For those that do not, we will figure out what the beginning sound is.
Segmenting CVC words:
The students will draw two consonants and a vowel from baggies to create CVC words. They will practice reading and segmenting the words they create. This will also introduce them to nonsense words (I hope it isn’t too soon for that…it might be).
These and other items with CVC names will be in a bag. The student with the bag will choose an item without taking it all the way out of the bag (so that others will not know what they’ve chosen) and segment the name of the item so that others can guess what item they’ve chosen.
To play this game, the students will draw a card with a CVC word on it. As they segment the word, they will move their game piece forward one space for each phoneme they say aloud (for example, a student would move their cat forward three spaces for the word cat: one space for /c/, one space for /a/, and one space for /t/). The game will continue until all players reach the end.
Beginning sounds:
The students will sort objects by their beginning sound. This game will span two days: I will cover three letters at a time so that the students are only sorting objects with three beginning sounds.
Unpictured beginning sounds activity: I will use magnets to hang three letters on the board. Two at a time, the students will get pointers and race each other to point to the beginning sound of a word I say aloud.
For those who will be reading during the small group work, I made these to help them track print:
Whew! I’ll let you know how it goes. I’m going to be observed for the first time on Wednesday.
Some inspirational photos for some Guy Fawkes / Bonfire Night / Fireworks poems!!
“Remember, remember,
the fifth of November,
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
We see no reason why
Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!”
Credit: Play. Learn. Dream
Taken: Chicago & New York, USA & North Yorkshire, England.
— I’m off to my local Bonfire Night celebrations tomorrow evening, which this year, or so I’ve heard..is being set to Music!! Can’t wait to discuss this with the children on Monday!! Especially as Monday (5th November) is the official day of celebration/remembrance.
History of Guy Fawkes Night / The Gunpowder Plot
Random Fact: The day before the 5th November (4th November) is known as Mischief Night, as this was the day when the Gunpowder Barrels were planted in the Houses of Parliament.
- I’m not sure where this comes from but this night is commonly known in my area and others throughout the country. Guy Fawkes was born and educated not to far from where I reside and I have visited the city where he grew up, the church where he was baptized and the school that he attended (Yes, the School is still open and flourishing to this day). Guy Fawkes also has very strong links to the town where I live, due to his parentage and therefore… we made a big deal about this day!! ENJOY and STAY SAFE!!
A simple matching game to teach children upper- and lower- case letters.
A Little Help, Please?
Attacking your Tumblr, other educational Tumblr’s, Tumblr itself and the entire Internet because you need a creative phonics activity for an interview.
Any ideas?
Note: UK Phonics system, Phase 2-3 but any ideas welcome!
Parking-Garage Sight Word Study: This is a really fun way to assess sight word retention. Each student gets a parking garage paper. The words inside the parking spots should be different and vary per-child. Each student gets a matchbox car. Say a word on the list of sight words and have students place their car on the correct word. If you are smarter than me, laminate the parking sheets!!! :-)
Boggle!! Great to use in phonics sessions, especially with small groups of children. Rules remain the same (although often I disregard the letters must be adjacent to each other) and the children have a minute to try a find as many words they can.
Just keep an eye on the children trying to turn the dice without you looking!!
Oh, and when the children shake the dice be wary of inappropriate words. Spotted one a bit late once. The sounds were all correct, just the last letter was incorrect. On the school’s opening day. As a group of parents walked in….
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