Sight Words

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Sight Word Homework Menu

Ideas from you are marked as = (shared)

• Use paint brush and water to write on construction paper, sidewalks, bricks, etc…
• Place words on the fridge, room door, bed post, etc… Have student slap and read the word each time they have to walk through the door or go to that location.
• Use pipe cleaners to form you words.
• Look for your words in the newspaper, magazine or this page and circle them. (shared)
• Use your favorite snack to shape your words and then eat them.
• Use colored chalk to write your words on the sidewalk or play hopscotch.
• Make rainbow sight words with your markers. 
• Use whipped cream to spray out words or write in and then lick the word as you spell it.  (shared)
• Use Play-Doh to form your sight words.
• Put shaving cream on a mat, table or on yourself student in the tub and write your words in it.
• Spell your sight words out loud while clapping the letters.
• Created your words out of something feely (cotton balls, sandpaper, noodles).  Blindfold yourself and try to guess the word by just feeling it.
• Paint your words with watercolor paint or finger paint.
• Use index cards to write your words, then trace them with glue and sprinkle glitter, sand, or an art supply of your choice (ex. beans or pasta) on them. 
• Use cooked spaghetti to form your words.
• Write your words onto yellow sticky notes and place them in different rooms around your house.  Run from room to room reading each sight word or play hide and seek with them. (shared)
• Write your words with your finger on something “feely” (ex. the couch, the refrigerator, your blanket, sandpaper).
• Have someone write your words on your back and see if you can figure out which word they are writing.
• Type your sight words on the computer.
• Throw a ball back and forth with each person saying the next letter in a sight word until the word is spelled.
• Exercise while you chant your sight words (jumping jacks, jumping, frog hops, head pats, air punches).
• Tape your words to your body parts (foot, leg, arm, belly, belt, necklace) and have your family members ask you about them during the evening  (ex. What word is on your belly?)
• Make your own flash cards with your words and have a family member practice them with you.

Events

Sight Word Dinner:

 Wednesday October 10 5:30-7:00 in the cafeteria

We had 33 families attend which is over half of the entire grade level.  The response to this night was more than we could have hoped for.  It truly shows how important family involvement is in the success of the students. 

Students and families enjoyed dinner together for half and hour and then spent the next hour rotate through different sight word activities.  The activities were designed to show families that homework can be done in many different forms with everyday materials and can still be fun for everyone.  Free supplies were given out at each center to give families the opportunity to replicate and modify them at home.  The centers included:

Movement:  hopscotch, slap it and spelling toss

Forming:  spelling words with string and pipe cleaners and painting with water on dark construction paper (an idea from Ms. Holmes, thanks!)

Tracing:  Slime bags, shaving cream and salt trays

Creating:  Cookie Dough and Play-Doh

Tactile:  Writing with glue and adding noodles or glitter to make the word.

The survey results were overwhelmingly  positive, take a look:

Please continue to share any sight word/letter ideas or games that you do at home.  You are their first teachers and we are only stronger by working together.

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip:

Permission slips have already gone home.  Let your teacher know if you need another.

Where: Lohr’s Orchard

When: Wednesday October 31, 2007

Time: 10:00-12:00 p.m.

Cost:  Child $2.50

           Parents $2.50

• Students must arrive to school by 9:30 a.m. We will leave school at 10:00.
• We will be visiting Lohr’s Orchard. Each student will get to take a class hayride and pick a pumpkin to take home. After the ride we will enjoy a cup of apple cider and an apple in the barn.
•  We can take as many chaperones as we would like. However, Lohr’s asks that any adult joining the trip pays $2.50.
• Parents chaperoning are asked to follow the bus to Lohr’s Orchard, due to the space available on the school bus.
• Afterwards, we will be enjoying a picnic lunch at school. Each child will need to bring his/her own bagged lunch and juice box for the picnic. If needed, a bag lunch can be ordered from the cafeteria.
• Please dress your child appropriately for the weather. No sandals, please. Sneakers are best for walking.
• We will be returning to school by 12:00 p.m.

Current Theme & Activities

Kids Choice:

We have looked closely at the U.S.A. flag and what the pieces and colors mean to our country.  We  explored old flags of our country and why they flag has evolved. We used this to create classroom flags that represent our classroom and what is important to us.  These flags will be flying in our rooms by the middle of October.  Come check them out. 

Our new Fall & Harvest Unit began Monday, October 15.  It will be approximately 6 weeks and will cover all of the seasonal Fall concepts and Harvest / Farming concepts.  This unit is filled with hands on activities and will require us to get out of the classroom a number of times.  We can’t wait!