If you attended curriculum night you may remember me explaining that this year I will be implementing a program called "The Daily 5" into our Language Arts program. If you are not familiar with the program, here is a very brief explanation (feel free to research more into the program if you wish!):

     The Daily 5 is a way of structuring our literacy program to meet the diverse needs of our students. It is also a way to teach students life long habits of reading, writing, and working independently. The goal of the Daily 5 program is to eventually be able to complete these 5 activities every day:
                     1) Read to Self
                     2) Word Work
                     3) Read to Someone
                     4) Work on Writing
                     5) Listen to Reading.

  Since the first day of school our class has been practicing "read to self." We have come a long way in building up our reading stamina, and most students are able to read independently and without distraction for about 8 minutes!

   This week we have begun the next Daily 5 activity: Word Work. We will be using Word Work activities to learn our word wall words in a more meaningful, hands-on approach than spelling tests.

   Here is a peek into what some of the Word Work activities look like! Students did a great job retrieving, setting up, and putting away their centers. Great job class!!

Mrs. Miller

Rainbow Write - Writing our words in rainbow colours!

Building our words with pom-poms

Read, Build (with play-doh), and write it center!

Building our words with pipe cleaners.

 Our word wall words spelled with letter beads.