Jones' Jungle: Another Week

Monday, November 11, 2013

Another Week

Wow another week has come and gone. I am blogging on a Monday because I am one of the fortunate ones that has Monday off for Veteran's Day.

First I want to thank all those Veteran's that have serve. You are very much appreciated. My cousin's husband and both her sons either are or have been in the military and we are definitely proud and thankful for all the do and give up.

Now onto some school stuff. Assessments have been completed and report cards done so I feel like I am trying very hard to get things on track with what the kids need to work on at this time.

In my RTI small reading groups I am using a resource I was introduced to in the spring of this past school year. The book is by Sharon Walpole and Michael McKenna. Dr. McKenna was one of my professors when I was working on my Reading Specialist degree so I was familiar with his work before this book and this book supports what I learned while working on my degree. You can click the picture below to get a copy of this book if you are interested.

During my reading work area time we are working on several skills here are some pictures of the activities.

Beginning Sound Sort

Letter Sort

Sight Word Book(sight word-this) click on the picture for the book it is attached as a freebie

Ordering Numbers-click on the picture for the activity it is attached as a freebie

Pig Art Project-is this not just too cute-I hope my kids enjoy doing it this week.

Writing Area Project

Now for a few pictures that recap last week. We worked on skills with the Scarecrow theme (that is why this next week you see a lot of farm activities). I think the kids work looks great.

We read the book The Little Scarecrow boy. After reading the book we made this graphic organizer where we identified main topic, details, characters and setting.