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Book Boxes

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We have been working on our Stamina as we read our books to ourselves each morning. We are able to read quietly, stay in one spot and remain focussed on our books for quite a long time.

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This morning we were very excited because Mrs. K spoke to us about Book Boxes. We have our own boxes and into them we need to put good fit books so that we are able to continue with our great reading.

We got to go book shopping! We put all our books on the tables and we went round and chose books to put in our boxes. It was such fun! Now when we Read To Self and Read To Someone we will have lots of books in our boxes to read.

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We love it when we go book shopping. We usually do it once a week and today was the day. We spread all our books out on the tables. Then we walk around the room and choose good fit books to put in our book boxes that we read for the week.

Our stamina is quite good  now and Mrs. K knows that we are able to read for a long time and stay focussed. Today was also a special day because we got to sit on lovely chairs while we read.

When we Read To Someone we also sat on the chairs together. We are trying very hard to ask each other questions so that we can check for understanding.

Here are some photos of us book shopping and reading to ourselves.

Do you read to each other in your class?

What sorts of books do you read?

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National Simultaneous Storytelling

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After Recess today it was time for Simultaneous Storytelling.

Many thanks to Oakleigh State School for providing this information about
why this time is so significant and the many benefits that this type of storytelling has:

“National Simultaneous Storytime is an important annual campaign that aims to encourage more young Australians to read and enjoy books. Now in its 13th successful year it is a colourful, vibrant and fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy using an Australian children’s book that explores age appropriate themes and addresses key learning areas of the National Curriculum for Years 1 to 6.

Every year a picture book, written and illustrated by an Australian author and illustrator is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country.
By facilitating National Simultaneous Storytime we aim to;
promote the value of reading and literacy;
promote the value and fun of books;
promote an Australian writer and publisher;
promote storytime activities in libraries and
provide opportunities to involve parents, grandparents, the media and the wider community to participate in and enjoy the occasion.”

This year the wonderful book called ‘The Wrong Book’ by Nick Brand is the chosen story.

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Together with Room 3 we read about the author, and discussed the story. We read the story together on Mrs. K’s i-Pad. It was such a funny story!

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Were you able to read or listen to the story today?

We can’t wait until next year for another simultaneous storytelling!

Book Boxes

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Friday was a fun day for Room 4. We went shopping  to collect books to put in our new book boxes. Friday is the day when we go shopping so that the books are ready for us to read on Monday. This is the first time we have ever done this. We have been practising Read to Self and Read to Someone but it has just been with our readers. Today we looked for Good Fit books to put in our boxes so that as we build our Stamina, we will have many more books to read. We have to make sure that we read our readers first and then we can pick from our book boxes. To begin with we read at our tables but as we get better we look forward to finding lots of interesting places to read by ourselves.

We also enjoyed reading with our reading partner and we have started to ask our partners questions about what they have read, so that we can check for understanding. We ask questions that start with: When,Why, What,  Where, Who and How. As Year Ones, Mrs K is very pleased with the sorts of questions we are beginning to ask.

Mrs K will add more photos later as we continue to build our Stamina in reading.

Do you have book boxes? What sorts of books do you like to read?

Tic-Tac-Toe Reading

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Every now and then we like to play this game. It’s really good for learning our sight words. The game is called Tic Tac Toe and we play it with a magic wand that helps us to remember our words. Sometimes we say the word and then put it into a sentence.

Here are the words to Tic Tac Toe and you can watch the movie to see how it’s done.

Tic Tac Toe around I go where I stop I do not know.

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Reading

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It was a beautiful day for the last day of Autumn.
We sat outside on the school steps and read.
We could read to ourselves or to someone. It was easy to increase our stamina because it was such a great way to read. We read our readers, books from the library and some fun readers Mrs. K found for us.
She was very happy with our reading because she could hear fluent readers, people reading with expression and lots of happy voices.
Here are some photos of room 4 being actively involved in their reading.

      

  

100 Words

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Hello Room 4. When you have some spare time you might like to read the 100 most commonly used words.

As Year Ones we have to be able to read the words automatically.

Were you able to read all of the words?

Why is it important to be able to read these words?

 

Now you might like to try these!

Author's Chair

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Mrs. Kolenberg was reading her tweets one day and a teacher mentioned an ‘author’s chair’ as being a way to encourage children to write during Work On Writing  time.

So she bought a VERY special chair that people can sit on only when they have shown that they are an author and have done some fantastic writing.

The chair is almost magical and makes you continue to do really great writing. We can’t wait to be the next ‘author’ to sit on the chair!

     

 

Read To Someone

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Mrs Kolenberg found these really cute books on the Internet. They are “You Read To Me, I’ll Read To You” books. They are fantastic for Reading To Someone because you share the book and take turns to read the sentences.

There are different sorts of share books. Some are nursery rhymes, some are scary tales and some are fairy stories.

            

 

The sentences are colour coded so each person knows what to read and some of the sections you read together.

        

The stories rhyme which make them fun to read!

Perhaps you might like to read some of these books too?

         

Old MacDonald's Vowels

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We had a Junior Primary Assembly today. We thought it would be fun to show some of our learning using the CAFE strategies. One of the strategies we have been looking at is ‘flip the sound’. This song helped us to remember what sounds the vowels make and therefore how we could use them in our reading.

It was a fun way to learn them!

Old MacDonald’s Vowels from Leanne Kolenberg on Vimeo.