Engage their Minds
GREAT MINDS DON'T THINK ALIKE
Learning to read and write is a necessity in our lives. We all know that.
However, what we learn while reading and writing matters a great deal. Reading can change our minds, as well as our hearts.
The power in written words can transform our thinking and can empower us to be more than we ever dreamed.
DRIVING QUESTION:
How can we use our growing reading and writing skills + what we're learning about citizenship to impact our community for good?
Skyping with 3rd graders across town to learn about their ideas.
Students decided to write letters, encouraging our community to work together to make our area even better!
Copying our letters for the community walk.
Want to see engaged and motivated learners?
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Allow choice, purpose, and relevancy into reading and writing.
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Students become amazingly motivated!
Community Letters
Community Walk
Individualized Phonics Support
Students exhibiting reading accuracy/phonics deficits receive 30 minutes per day, 4 times per week of Sonday System II instruction.
Written by Arlene Sonday, past president of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), this program is based on the Orton-Gillingham method of teaching reading.
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Teaching child HOW to read is vital, and a significant piece of accomplishing that is to instill WHY it's important. When young children use their growing reading skills to impact the world around them - that is powerful!ly motivating!
Along with the Orton Gillingham program, Sonday II, each student uses assessment data to select spelling patterns they commit to work on each week. After selecting the pattern, students find words to develop their own spelling list.
PHONICS
How Can We Interact with Our Environment to Help Animals Adapt and Survive?
As students learned about animal adaptations in the classroom, we decided to learn about what we can do to help our feathered friends!
We read books!
We
researched
online
We wrote a PTO grant for bird haven supplies.
Reading directions AND working together is important if you want to put a bird feeder together correctly!
Attaching the squirrel baffle...lots of failed attempts, but they figured it out!
Getting the Word Out!
Students decided to write and produce public service announcements to share about their school bird haven with all students on morning announcements
If you feed them
they will come!
Carson and Maddox's PSA
Turner and Luke's PSA
Jake and Teagan's PSA