We are gradually showing students, one at a time, how to write their reading response on the classroom wiki. If we met with your child, instructions went home with them today. Those instructions include their user ID and password. Keep this in the STAR binder where it can be easily accessed when at home or if you have a safer place, that is fine,too. I showed the whole class how the wiki works, but I'm not sending the information or passwords home until we've met with them one on one. Only 3 went home today, more tomorrow, and more next week.
Please let them type in their response. It doesn't have to be much and yes, they may hunt and peck and spell things incorrectly, but that's ok. The goal is for students to develop as readers as well as see that the computer is a tool for learning. It doesn't have to be entered the same day as you read. You can help them the next day if you want. The important thing is that they are reading and that they are trying to use the WIKI as a learning tool.
We learned about Mysteries today as a genre. We will go into depth with all the fiction/non fiction genre's this year, so this is just an introduction. We also learned about the reading strategy of chunking letters and sounds together. (c--an--can).
I'm introducing all the decoding strategies right now, but we will continue to talk about them and use them as the year progresses. With some children, when we begin guided reading, that's where I will help them the most. So if you are wondering if I only talk about the strategy one time....NO! It will be ALL year, based on student need, when and how.
We read the book, Clean Your Room, Harvey Moon and learned that when we write we write for the READER! It may all be in our brain what happened, but we have to show it with our words on paper.
In the afternoon, we went to art and our enrichment time with the ELL students.
Tomorrow is P.E. and music. Be sure and wear appropriate shoes.
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