Sight Words!

Hello Firstie Parents!!

Another quick update about what is happening in Room 7… We are still really enjoying having Louis le lutin visiting our room. This morning he greeted us by zip-lining through the class. Madame Byrd was worried about his safety but he made it down the zip line no problem and the kids were very excited.

We are continuing to work on sight words and are using our Sensory Table and Word Work Table to work on reading and recognizing sight words. The sight words (high frequency words that we would like to know ‘by heart’) we are working on and that you could work on at home are as follows:

-Le

-La

-Les

-Un

-Une

-Des

-Chat

-Bonjour

-Va

-Louis

-Tu

-Ami

-Me

As promised to a few parents in Parent-Teacher interviews, here are some “Sneaky No-Learning Teaching Tricks” (i.e ways to work on these sight words with your child if you are struggling to get them to sit down and do the dreaded “homework”).

Sight Word Stacks

Write a different sight word on each foam square. Then, put them all in a bag. Pair up the students and have them take turns picking a foam square out of the bag. If they can read the sight word that's on the square they get to keep it and add it to their stack. With each word they get their stack grows. If their stack of foam squares topples over they have to put them back in the bag.

Sight Word Twister:

Write out sight words and tape to Twister board. Kids spin and play as usual but must read and say the sight word they are about to put their hand or foot on.

Fly Swatting Sight Words:

This is a class favourite and we often do this to practice letter and number recognition as well. Write or type up sight words on a large sheet of paper or on small cards and spread out on the table, tape to the wall or put on the floor. Give the kids fly swatters (or just use a glove or bare hand) and say one of the sight words out loud. The kids are to find the sight word and swat it as quickly as possible. This is a great game to play with siblings or parents as opponents.

Sight Word Hockey:

Great for the boys!! Use a leftover strawberry container to create a hockey net and use bottle caps as pucks. The child must first read the sight word out loud and then may have the chance to shoot it into the net. They are required to at least try to read/ sound out the word before "shooting".

Sight Word Cups:

This can easily be played with plastic kids cups or Dixie cups. Write the sight words on the cups (or tape them to reusable cups) and hide a candy, toy, or some sort of prize underneath some of the cups. Kids then need to read the sight word before lifting up the cup to see if a prize is hidden underneath.



**Two things to note:

1) We are still collecting items for our Hampers for Harmony House. Our theme is Paper and Linens.

2) We are in need of items for our Sensory Bin:

     - cotton balls (large)

     - marshmallows

     - white rice

     - dried beans (any colour)

If you can donate any of these items we would be very appreciative.