Welcome to Ms. Neufeld's Primary Blog. Here you will find classroom updates, useful links and ways to support your child at home.
Thursday, 20 November 2014
Skating
I was very proud of how well the children did at skating this week! Everyone gave it a try, and those who could not even stand up at the beginning made great progress by the end!
Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Sight words, short vowels and phonemic awareness....
CVC Words (consonant vowel consonant) words are great for developing phonemic awareness |
Journals is a very powerful tool to developing phonemic awareness. Sounding out a word requires a great deal of phonemic awareness, much more than if students copy a word from a teacher in order for the spelling to be 'right'. That is why I encourage the students to sound out as much as they can. This makes for interesting journal entries! But as the year progress, so does their spelling and writing. As well, not worrying too much about spelling frees the children up to write more interesting, meaningful stories. Today, we read the story "Ish" by Peter Reynolds to help us not to worry about having perfect spelling and drawing!
Monday, 20 October 2014
Pattern Day!
The children participated with enthusiasm in Pattern Day! I loved their pattern clothing, face paint, shoes and jewelry! We enjoyed making fruit kabobs into patterns and eating the delicious jello made by Mason's mom. (Layered in a pattern, of course!) My favorite moment was when the boys playing at the train-set were spontaneously making the cars into a pattern! I laughed when overhearing the comment a few seconds later...."but I don't know why our teacher gets SO excited about patterns?!" Ok. So I may have gone a bit overboard, but patterns really are EVERYWHERE! :)
Friday, 10 October 2014
We Like Our Red Clothes!
As part of our colors unit, our second whole language book we have been learning to read is based on the song "Mary Wore Her Red Dress" The children had a chance to choose something red and be in the song, and have been having fun dressing up, recognizing color words and practicing our basic reading skills, tracking as we read, self correcting and developing some basic sight words. One of our literacy centers was 'building sentances' around this poem. Our first poem in our Poetry Book will be one that contains lots of color words. Please practice these words with your child. Here are a few of our red fashionistas.....
She wore her red purse, red mittens and red scarf. |
He wore his red apron. |
She wore her red shoes, red skirt, red purse! |
Monday, 29 September 2014
We are back!
I am excited to finally see the inside of my classroom after a 4 month absence! The children have been adjusting to a variety of schedules, teachers and friends! I have been very proud of their hard work and flexibility during this 'settling in' time! It's time to get learning!
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