Dec. 5, 2007 - wk 13 (N-7 & N-8)
November 26-30, 2007
Our read aloud this week is The Cat of Bubastes by G. A Henty. We’ve also been listening to Elsie Dinsmore audio books on CD (the first 3 books) while we drive about town on errands or on our way to piano lessons. We finished up the last book this week. Too bad there aren’t more of these books on CD! Book 4 will have to be our next read aloud, once we finish with the Henty book.
Tuesday, 11/27, Part 1
WARM-UP We started with a REVIEW QUIZ of all review words and the N-7 words which were dictated three weeks ago. (How could so much time accumulate?) They are still retaining these words, amazingly enough.
Tuesday, 11/27, Part 2
DICTATION I dictated the words from N-8. We played a game during the dictation which the children quite enjoyed. For each word dictated, the children got to take turns naming a movie. My job was to fit my dictation sentence to incorporate the new word and the theme of the movie. For example, for the movie “Enchanted,” word #921 (poison) fit perfectly: The queen tried to use a poison apple to kill Giselle.
A POST-TEST was administered after dictation. The kids are doing great on these. Missed words went into the Word Banks.
Tuesday, 11/27, Part 3
REINFORCEMENT The children wrote sentences with words from Sections N-7 and N-8. Here were the requirements: (1) a point was given for each of the 40 words; (2) a point would be deducted for any word misspelled whatsoever (asking Mom for help was OK); (3) double points would be awarded for any spelling word which was turned into a derivative (intent could become intention); and (4) they had to practice and label all four sentence types (see WG pg 115). The children really enjoy these sentence writing activities, and they worked very hard at not losing points due to misspellings while being quite creative.
We finished with a McCall-Crabbs reading.
Wednesday, 11/28, Part 1
WARM-UP The children reviewed the phonograms and took a REVEIW QUIZ on all review words, including the noun phrases from A-I review words in WG on pg 115.
Wednesday, 11/28 , Part 2
REINFORCEMENT We practiced reading all the N-7 and N-8 words from our Learning Logs with the “Think to Spell” dialogue and then the way we naturally say the words.
Wednesday, 11/28, Part 3
REFERENCE PAGES We added select words from these two lists to the following Reference Pages: ED page (built), SH/TI page (spacious), Abbreviations (quart = qt.), and the Homophones page (fair/fare).
We finished with a McCall-Crabbs reading.
