Mitten

We have been reading the Mitten this past week.  Again with this book we made predictions about the story  using the title and the cover picture.  We also listed the animals we would most likely encounter in the story.  To do so we used our letter/sound knowledge and sounded out the first  letter of the animal's name. 

This week we will retell the story using stuffed animals.  Students will then get a chance to colour their own animals and retell the story using a "mitten".  This will be a centre activity and will take approximately a week for all  students to complete.  They will be encouraged to use their "props" to retell the story at home to you.  Thanks for listening to them. 

Catching Up

The next few posts will be catching everyone up on what we have been doing the past two weeks.  Sorry about the delay in getting these entries online. 

For this shared reading poem we read and chanted the poem for several days.

A Turkey is a funny bird.
Watch him wobble, wobble
All he knows is just one word
Gooble, gobble, gobble!


We discussed the difference between letters and words.  One way I help the students to remember the difference, capitalizing on a favourite meal of many kindergarteners....spaghetti and meatballs.  The spaces between letters within a word are "spaghetti" spaces (skinny), a new word starts at a "meatball" space.  We use popsicle sticks with pom poms to help discover which spaces are,in-fact, meatballs. 

During centre time students were invited to use wikki sticks to put circles around letters in the poem. 

When reading with your child at night see if they can locate letters they know and look for "meatball" spaces too!