It's About Time

This week we started learning to tell time.  We are starting with time to the hour.  I started off by introducing my students to JUDY!!! 

We talked about the parts of the clock.  I always tell my students since minute is a longer word . . . it gets the longer hand!! ;)    It’s a fun way to help them remember.  Next I read the students the book, The Grouchy Ladybug.   While reading the story I had one student match the time in the book to the time on JUDY!!

 Next, I wanted my students to have hands on practice with clocks so I had my students make these clocks:

       

The students picked any hour to set their clock to and then wrote a little sentence to tell others what time their clock said!!  We then hung them out the hall.  My plan is to take away the sentences next week and replace them with letters.  The students will have to tell me what time goes with each letter.

Double Hearts Ending Blends

Ending Blends

This week we are learning about Ending Blends.  I loved First Grade Parade’s Snowman Ending Blends.  Since we were focusing on _ft, _nt, and _lk I made these double hearts for our class.

 The student’s took turns matching the word with the picture.  Next the students recorded their words in a Word Sort.  The students loved this idea!  They also illustrated some words on their paper or practiced using them in sentences.  Later in the week the students will participate in a Read the Hall where they will take their clipboard out in the hall, read the words on the wall, and record them under the correct ending blend. 

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The Sleeping Pig

Here is a copy of a Long O word sort that I made to go with this story.

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EEK!!! There’s a Mouse in the House

EEK!!!  There’s a Mouse in the House

We are getting ready to ready to read the story.  EEK!! There’s a Mouse in the House.  While reading this story we always teach the children about “ee” and “ea” This year I thought it would be fun to have the Mouse eat the cheese to make words. 

Each student will need a copy of the Level 1 or the Level 2 beginning sounds or both.  They will also need one _eat Cheese.  They will then match the mouse to the cheese to build a _eat word. 

If you are using Houghton Mifflin Reading you may come across this story in Theme 6.  There is a cute eWord Game that practices the Vocabulary in the Story.  Hope you can use this in your classroom.