Princess L (Pre-K)
Letter H
Reading: The Happy Hippopotami, Horton Hears a Who, My Hands, Hop on Pop, Ho for a Hat, The Big Honey Hunt
Princess S (LG)
Bible: selections on OT law from Exodus, Leviticus and Deuteronomy with the focus on understanding why the law is there and what it means for the Israelites and for us as Christians
Climbing to Good English: pgs 118-122
Handwriting: capital Q-V
Literature: On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Math U See: Beta continuing column addition lesson 13
SOS Science: plants test
Writing Aids: steps in the Writing Process
Reading: The Story of Shabbat
Princess E (UG)
Bible, SOS Science and Handwriting: same as above
Growing with Grammar: 1.5 - 1.8
Literature: Tirzah pgs. 60-98
Math U See: Gamma Unit 1 test and lesson 7
Writing Aids: descriptive writing
Reading: On Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, The Story of Shabbat
2 comments:
Hey Jen,
i just started my block one course and I"m learning how to teach kids to read and write. i was wondering what you think about invented spelling. Do you think that it is the correct way to help children read and write, or do you feel that it is creating more difficulties down the road as far as spelling goes?
Kory
Here's my take:
While children are young, they need to be encouraged to write. The effort needs to be praised and mistakes overlooked. As they get older and begin to learn to read (using phonics), then they need to start to be corrected when they make spelling errors. I think that phonics and spelling rules go hand in hand. For the rules that they know, they need to be graded accordingly and have points taken off for incorrectly spelled words that they should know based on where they are in their phonics instruction. For words that are further than they are in phonics, they should be encouraged to use the rules that they know to attempt to spell the word correctly. If they do, wonderful. If they do not, then the correct spelling should be discovered by looking in a dictionary, but the incorrect spelling of that word not count against them in the grading. Does that make sense? As long as the child is encouraged to use the rules that exsist, and then to correct mistakes. That is part of my beef with public schools, in that the children aren't expected to correct their mistakes. My girls hand in an assignment once to be graded, and are then not done with the assignment until they have corrected their mistakes and understand why they got them wrong. Invented spelling is fine as far as encouraging writing, but there has to be a point at which the child is expected to correct mistakes. Otherwise we are setting up them to think it's okay to make mistakes and not be expected to correct them.
Blessings Bro.
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