By Heart Words

 

 

For the week of October 22nd the by heart words are:  can and see.

 

The "by heart words" are on our By Heart Board and also written on chart paper near where the teaching takes place. Every day the children read the words aloud 5 times. Once a week the children use white boards and write the words we have learned so far. Starting this week, once a week the children will have an opportunity to go to the writing centre and write a by heart word book.  For the week of October 22nd the books are "I am a" books. There are 4 little pages in the book and the children write: I am a ... and draw a picture of what their sentence is about. The SK's a want them to attempt to write the word, for example:  I am a cat. They will write the whole sentence and make a picture of a cat. This not only allows the children practise with the by heart word, but also practise writing a sentence and being aware of what a sentence is. For the JK's this is not a must do activity, but the SK's must do a book a week.