Mondays are busy days! It's the introduction day for our new Reading story, and along with the story, there are vocabulary words, and spelling words too.
The kids like to do vocabulary in this manner. I hand out the words for the week, to some students. They take their word and hold it in front of them, for the rest of us to see. This week there are 6 words-that's the most we ever have.
Then I hand out the definitions of the words, and the kids with the definitions get to find their match. The rest of us sit back and check to make sure that the words and definitions go together. If they don't, we reorganize until they do.
Once the words are correctly defined, we have a student place them on our pocket chart.
The last step is for the kids to fill out the vocabulary paper, to go home with their Spelling/Vocabulary Packet homework. They write out the words and their definitions. I do have plans to teach the students how to look up words (this WEEK, in fact) in a dictionary, but they LOVE to assemble and figure it out this way. Vocabulary is FUN!
In Math, we are working on subtraction number stories. I had kids act out the story problems. For this problem, the boy in blue (Ryan) played the part of "Martin" and he had 7 markers. The boy in orange (Jayden) played the part of "Carlos," and he had 4 markers (poor Carlos). The question asked us how many MORE markers Martin had than Carlos. It was a nice visual for the kids, and fun too. Math is FUN!
This is Malik (playing the renamed part of "Keisha" as "Kevin" because he's a boy and not a girl). His problem was about grapes. We didn't have any grapes so we used dice, and it was perfect that I had the coordinating colors. "Kevin" had 8 green grapes and 5 red grapes. How many more green grapes did he have than red? 3 of course!!
Parents, I hope your kids did their Spelling Word Shape dance for you. They were trained and told to dance for you. If they didn't show you, then ask them to demonstrate. :-) Spelling is fun too.
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