Flippy the Dolphin

Dear Mom and Dad:

We added a new reading strategy to our wall. It is called “Flippy the Dolphin”. This reminds me that if it doesn’t make sense I can flip the vowel sound.

We learned about King Ed. He is found at the end of words and when a vowel stands before him in a word he says “Tell me your name!” and the vowel will say it’s name: a, e, i, o, u. Ask me to tell you the short sounds of the vowels, and then the long sounds.

We added a couple of new poems today and used this reading strategy to read words such as: cake, bake, ride, lake, time etc. Please practice this strategy with me with my home reading book. Ask me to find words with long vowel sounds and post them on the blog!

We had word work in the afternoon and then learned more about Saskatchewan and the people that live there. We watched some videos of Ukrainian dance and the First nations dance. We added more information to our visual journals.

Question of the day: Grade 1’s Ask me to find words with long vowel sounds and post them on the blog!  Grade 2’s, write out sentences with words with king ed and post it on the blog.

Love,

The Rainbow Triad

Housekeeping:

Students led Conferences Thursday March 19 and Friday March 20. You can sign up by clicking on the link on the Cranston home page 

March 2015 conferences are Student Led.  Students take the lead on sharing examples of their work, discussing next steps and setting goals. This does mean there may be more than one family present the classroom at the same time.  Each family will have up to 50 minutes in the classroom.