Yesterday we had fun with sight words. Each week we get a list of 5 words that we need to learn to be good readers and writers. Usually Mrs. Jinks gets the words from our weekly shared reading poem or from words we use a lot in our writing, or from the Dolch high frequency word list. We now have 30 words on our word wall, and we are practicing them each week at home and at school. Today we changed our names and became a sight word for the day. We all got a name tag with a sight word we have studied on it and we called each other by those new names only. Mrs. Jinks was Mrs. With, and Mr. Konrad, our Vice Principal was Mr. At. It was a lot of fun and we were able to have lots of mini lessons on words. We found words that were part of the same family, (e.g., me and see, by and my) and talked about how words may be spelled similarly, but sound differently(e.g., to and go). We talked about words that have a magic e (e.g., like) and those that don't follow the regular rules and you just have to remember their spelling(e.g., you). We learned a lot and had fun doing it! We graphed whether people enjoyed having a new name at the end of the day and most people enjoyed the experience. Those that didn't like it said they liked their name better, or didn't like the feel of the name tag on their clothes. A wonderful way to review!
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