Hi all! Rough week last week for me with a sinus infection that just wont seem to quit combined with a fever. Hopefully this week is a bit smoother! We're looking forward to getting a mouse for every student to make computer time a bit easier to work with. I found some budget mice (8 dollars per not too bad) on classroom direct and decided just to spring for it myself rather than wait for a donation system or class budget to be approved. So that should be arriving any day now which is super exciting! We will also, hopefully, finally be getting our i-pads (1 to 1) in this week for our students. I'll get them labeled over the weekend and be ready to use on Monday.
Academically we have a number of new things starting in the next week or so. This week we will be introducing a simple phonics and grammar word study into our morning routine as well as differentiated word study (focusing on learning spelling patterns) during daily 5 work time. Next week we will be starting our intervention and enrichment. We are targeting this 6 week cycle for students who have missed phonetic concepts from first grade and kindergarten in spelling. The big focus will be for students who are struggling with short vowel patterns as well as digraphs. Diagraphs are, "a combination of two letters representing one sound, as in ph and ey". The two most common examples we see at the first and kindergarten level are "ch" and "th". Any students who are not struggling with this have been divided into enrichment groups. These groups will be self directed but guided by a teacher and focus on the concepts of genius hour. If you're unfamilar with genius hour think a structured self defined research project that produces a product and presentation at the end. The student has to think of a problem they want to solve in the world or something they really want an answer to, research it, and then create a tangible product and presentation.
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