Dec. 5, 2007 - wk 9 (N-6 and N-7)
October 29 - November 2, 2007
Our read aloud is still The Cat of Bubastes by G. A Henty. We’re also listening to Elsie Dinsmore books on CD while driving about in the car.
Monday, Part 1
WARM-UP The children practiced reading all the phonogram cards together will full spelling dialogue.
Monday, Part 2
TEST The children took a test on all review words and Section N-6. Excellent scores, even with as little review as we had! I think they’re catching on.
Tuesday - No SWR lessons.
Wednesday, Part 1
WARM-UP The children reviewed the phonogram cards and took a REVIEW QUIZ, including the phonograms on WG pg 112.
Wednesday, Part 2
REFERENCE PAGE We built the Homophone page (SWR Step 30, B26) in our Learning Logs. We added all of the homophones listed on pp 149-150 up to pare/pear/pair. Most of these were familiar to the children, but a few caught them unprepared.
Wednesday, Part 3
REINFORCEMENT Next, I assigned particular homophone sets to the children, and they wrote their words on 3x5 cards that had been cut in half (3x2.5” cards). After we had that finished, we divided the stack into two sets and proceded to play Concentration, trying to match the homophones. We played this twice so that the entire stack had been played. The children begged to do this again. We don’t play enough games around here, so it was a fun time for all.
We finished with a quiz on all the homophones. This was harder! A few sets of the homophones were added to our stack of cards for review words as a result.
We finished with a McCall-Crabbs reading.
Thursday - No SWR lessons. Again, our writing monopolized our day.
Friday - No SWR lessons. After our writing class in the morning, we visited an art studio and painted ceramics for an art class and to make Christmas gifts.
