Wednesday, September 27

  
Wednesday, September 27
         Happy Birthday Harlyn! 

Today we begin explicit and systematic phonics instruction. Each 30 minute lesson is covered over two days by the following guide:
DAY ONE
Step 1: Phonemic Awareness    
Step 2: Visual Drill

Step 3: Auditory Drill
Step 4: Blending Drill

Step 5: New Concept

DAY TWO
Step 5: Review New Concept From Previous Day
Step 6: Word Work

Step 7: Irregular Words
Step 8: Connected Text
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Today's Lesson...

 Phonemic Awareness: Blend: /a/  /t/   (at)  Segment: at   (/a/ /t/)

 Visual Drill: none today

Auditory Drill: none today
Blending Drill: none today

 New Concept: Letter A (short vowel sound)

 KinderLiteracy     
I will reread parts of A Tree for All Seasons so the children can answer text-dependent questions like the ones below:
~Explain how a tree looks in the winter.
~What does the author tell us about trees providing for us?
~What can we infer about the animals we see on page 3?

 Our library time is from 9:50-10:20 today.

KinderMath: Noticing Differences
As we did yesterday, the kids will look at another picture on the SmartBoard and use their 'math talk' to tell what differences they see. Next, I will call pairs of students to stand so that we can see what is different about them. (One is a boy, one is a girl; one has brown hair, one has blonde hair, etc.)

Music Today

~Again, if you have a spare yellow apple at home, we could use some for an activity next week.
~There still a few open volunteer spots available for the Book Fair. Thank you!
~How to pronounce the 44 phonemes.