One of our strategies this term to increase fluency, accuracy and expression in reading is to read to someone and listen to reading. Reading to someone and listening to reading are components of the Daily Five literacy program initiated by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser.
The idea of reading to someone is great because the children have a friend to read and discuss books with as well as increasing:
We are at the early stages of this and the children are still developing their skills in listening, encouraging,and asking relevant questions about the passages read.
When you are reading with your child at home, you are also fostering these great skills to become an independent reader!
EEKK-Elbow to Elbow, Knee to Knee. This is how the children are asked to sit. It allows for the children to read quietly and still be heard by their partners and partners can look on and read the book as well.
They may read one page each from the same book, the same page together, read their own book with the partner listening all the while checking for understanding.
During this reading time the children learn to collaborate and be flexible with their partners.
Happy Father's Day from Room 4
The children in Room 4 have produced some beautiful portraits of their fathers. Please watch and listen below to see our portraits, and hear our messages to our fathers. We hope you enjoy viewing our efforts!
Untitled from Leanne Kolenberg on Vimeo.
We had Erin visit us from Footsteps today.Footsteps is a dance program where children learn a variety of dances from different genre in a fun and co-operative way. We learnt the Tarzan and Jane dance. It is an individual dance but later on we we have partner dances. We learnt the correct (and nice) way to accept a dance. Visit
to see a video of our dance.
Great news! Today we received a postcard from White Hills Primary School in Bendigo, Victoria. We are part of the postcard project. For more information and to see our postcard, visit our new “The Postcard Project” page.
Mr. Brown came to visit us today. He lives with Mrs. Kolenberg. Mr Brown has a toothbrush and a bag. I made a little card for Mr Brown.
Watch the visit today of a koala. He walked across the road, up the driveway of another house and climbed a tree in their yard!
Click on the Koala and it will take you straight to TUMBLR.
To coincide with Book Week, the children in Room 4 have spent Week 5 exploring characters from books. The children were asked to dress up as a character from a book, write 5 clues about this character, and present it to the class. Look at the characters we have choosen!
The theme for Book Week 2011 is "One World, Many Stories".
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All of the Junior Primary chldren had a parade today. There were so many great characters and costumes. We clapped as each class went passed us. At lunch time we had a shared lunch on the oval. It was a beautiful day.
Please look at our TUMBLR for video of the parade. You might have to stand on your head for one of the film clips! LESSON 1: HAVE THE PHONE UP THE RIGHT WAY!!
As part of our Book Week celebrations we went to the Library with our Buddies. Mrs. Langham gave us all a Passport. It looked like this:
We then ‘visited’ continents and read stories, answered questions and played games relevant to those countries.
Here is a slide-show of us in the Library with our Buddies.
One World Many Stories on PhotoPeach
