Gaining Confidence as Readers and Writers

Our work with "old favorites" continues and this week the children had fun dramatizing The Three Billy Goats Gruff.  We are learning that when we re-tell stories, remembering and even TRYING OUT the character's voices and help us know the story by heart.  Take a look at the children using popsicle stick puppets on self designed bridges to retell the classic tale.

In addition to listening and retelling stories, we are working hard on reading "just right" books and communicating our own ideas through writing.  Here you can see children getting to know a new strategy we call "WORD PART POWER".  That's when you use parts of a word you know to help you figure out a new word.  Word families demonstrate this clearly.  Below you can see children using flip rings and creating slide strips to reveal words with the same ending but different beginning letters.  Check it out-