Dec. 5, 2007 - wk 8 (N-6)
October 22-26, 2007
Our read aloud this week is The Cat of Bubastes by G. A Henty, which coordinates with JJ’s Ancient History lessons.
I’m not going to be recording the length of time any more for our various lesson segments. If I remember, I’ll time an overall lesson, but fussing with the timer has been distracting to us all, and I believe we’ve gotten a good idea of how long various activities will take us.
Monday, Part 1
The children took a test on all of the multiletter phonograms we have learned, including the advanced ones (2). Scores ranged from 96% to100%. I’d say they are doing well with their phonograms.
Monday, Part 2
I administered the second of the Diagnostic Tests found in the Appendix in SWR. All of the children improved in their overall grade level scores. Here are their new grade levels:
JD: was 4.5; now 6.0
JJ: was 3.9; now 4.1
SE: was 4.7; now 5.2
There were still some errors on words from sections lower than where we are working, but only a couple, so we will just keep working where we are and work more on review of these earlier words.
Tuesday - No SWR lessons.
Wednesday, Part 1
WARM-UP The children practiced reading all the phonogram cards together will full spelling dialogue, and then JD tried this on his own (sounds only), bringing his total time down to 1:10. The children then reviewed the spelling rules without mom’s help. A warm-up quiz followed which included review words, the phonograms listed in the WG (pg 110), and a couple review words.
Wednesday, Part 2
DICTATION Since we missed lessons yesterday, I needed to dicate all 20 words from N-6 in a timely way. I challenged the children that if we could go through all 20 words within 25 minutes, they could all have hot cocoa when we were done. They did it and we got cocoa! Amazingly, they all got 100% on the POST-TEST.
Wednesday, Part 3
REINFORCEMENT We reviewed the list of words on the board when we were finished, and we discussed which ones could be converted to -ly adverbs. The children were then sent off to write sentences. The requirements included: (1) at least 10 sentences and as many as 20; (2) each sentence had to include at least one -ly word, preferrably one from this week’s list; (3) spelling words had to be underlined; and (4) extra points for spelling words converted to words with suffixes which included rules we have learned (plurals, Y’s exchanging, E’s dropping, or 1-1-1).
We finished with a McCall-Crabbs reading.
Thursday - No SWR lessons. We spent most of the day getting caught up with our writing class assignments.
Friday, Part 1
WARM-UP JJ read the phonogram cards and brought his record down to 1:14. Yeah! The children took a review quiz on review words and added error words to their Word Banks.
Friday, Part 2
REINFORCEMENT I dictated the A-I review words at the top of WG pg 111 in the form of a review quiz. The children then matched the words together in antonym pairs as an independent activity.
Friday, Part 3 Given that the children have not had much time to review the words for the week, we finished with a review quiz and will work more on these words next week. Again, error words were added to the Word Banks.
We finished with a McCall-Crabbs reading.
