Week number three and going strong! The fun of saying "tertiary" created lots of desires to mix, mix, mix color. We have one more activity (I'll tell the little ones it's a "test," so the word won't panic them in years to come!)
To Remke's delight, we started "reading class" on Friday! I told the class we would be reading the hardest word to read - because the letters in the word, did not sound their names. The letters were t-h-e - and everyone shouted "the!" How smart they felt to read the hardest word! If you peek in the room you will see "the" cards posted all over the room. We have "the desk," "the workbench," "the wall" - you get the idea!
After "the" we began forming words (and practicing handwriting) with 7 introductory letters (a,b,f,m,p,s,t). We spelled many three letter words with a vowel in the middle. We even spelled a Martian word, and the little ones even read it: a word that isn't even a word!
This week will begin group reading lessons, working with the class in two groups. Next week we'll begin small group work, when Mrs. Dorsey will return from her trip to New York, to help me teach SLANT to groups of 5 or 6 little ones. Can't wait!!
We'll also concentrate on two and three dimensional shapes this week. So you might be hearing things like "isosceles, equilateral, prism, rhombus, sphere..." I certainly don't expect mastery of such geometric words, but they are fun to introduce and work with.
Frequently you will be asked to collect/bring in/supply the class with often strange items. So here goes! Most frequently we like to take things apart at our workbench. If anyone has broken appliances (small size!), we'd love to disassemble them! We have goggles and lots of screw drivers. My favorite quote from a child went something like this: "Lets put it back together without the parts." A group of little ones had just finished disassembling a toaster and hair dryer. Their finished product resembled a robotic alien!
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