We have more a words this week, but a bit more complicated. Try making flashcards and invite your student to draw a picture on each. Using pictures to recall high frequency words is a good strategy for beginning readers.
papa, arbre, classe, table, balle
Bonus words: maman, animal
I also want to give you a little heads up about a paper that will be coming home tomorrow. One of my goals last year, was to try to help my students develop even better relationships with their peers by organizing some activities where the main focus was on promoting social skills. Depending on the task, we focused on skills such as listening, participating, problem solving, sharing, compromising, turn taking, or using kind words.
After each activity, students completed a short self-evaluation to help them reflect on how well they had used the 3 particular skills we discussed before-hand. I also gave my opinion of how everyone did.
I found that students were always very successful during these activities, and were able to transfer those good social skills to other times when it might not be the main focus of our activity. I would like to continue the same routine this year.
Getting along with others and working together is a focus at school every day, but we will do a dedicated social skills activity with self-evaluation in the second week of every month. I will send the evaluation home so that you can talk with your child about the activity - what it involved, how they feel it went, what they did really well or would like to work on. It is my hope that this extra bit of communication between school and home will allow us to work together to encourage the continued development of great social skills and relationships!
Tomorrow we will sit in our community circle and pass around a microphone. When it's our turn, we will say something nice about our school or a classmate. Before the activity, we will discuss the importance of listening, participating and sitting up properly while on the carpet. The evaluation will come home tomorrow afternoon in the pochette.
Thanks for your support!
Tamara
After each activity, students completed a short self-evaluation to help them reflect on how well they had used the 3 particular skills we discussed before-hand. I also gave my opinion of how everyone did.
I found that students were always very successful during these activities, and were able to transfer those good social skills to other times when it might not be the main focus of our activity. I would like to continue the same routine this year.
Getting along with others and working together is a focus at school every day, but we will do a dedicated social skills activity with self-evaluation in the second week of every month. I will send the evaluation home so that you can talk with your child about the activity - what it involved, how they feel it went, what they did really well or would like to work on. It is my hope that this extra bit of communication between school and home will allow us to work together to encourage the continued development of great social skills and relationships!
Tomorrow we will sit in our community circle and pass around a microphone. When it's our turn, we will say something nice about our school or a classmate. Before the activity, we will discuss the importance of listening, participating and sitting up properly while on the carpet. The evaluation will come home tomorrow afternoon in the pochette.
Thanks for your support!
Tamara