Workshop Rundown: 1/7

It's been awhile since the kids have had a "normal" workshop week where we go through 6 workshops. They jumped right back into the routine and did some great work.  Here's what we did this week.

One of the favorite workshops this week was Read the Room BINGO.  The kids walked around the room and looked for the words written on the gameboard.  When they found a word, they highlighted it.  While many of the words were HFW and sight words, there were other words such as "buddies" and "nice" that the kids had to find in order to be able to read them.

Burr!  It was cold this week, so we made hot chocolate!  After putting the directions in order, the kids each made their very own cup of hot chocolate complete with mini marshmallows and candy canes.

Yum!  This workshop was not only fun, but fostered independence and following directions.  For many, pouring the hot (ok, it was really only lukewarm) water into the cup all by themselves was a big accomplishment.  It made the hot chocolate that much sweeter!

To practice our new HFW to, too, and like, the kids filled in the blanks to write a page for a class book.  We discovered that our kids really like to play sports and ice skate!  Most kids completed more than one page so that they could take a page home.  Please ask your child to read their page to you.

 iPads!  We haven't gotten out the iPads out in awhile and it proved to be a fun way to practice language arts skills such as letter matching, sight words, and beginning sounds.

After reading the new HFW "We Have a Team," the kids looked through a page of the newspaper to find HFW.  They were amazed at how many words they were able to find! This is a great way to practice words at home and is an easy activity to do while in the car or waiting in the Dr. office.

The last workshop was to sort M & N words.  While these sounds can easily be confused, everyone quickly sorted the pictures correctly and had no trouble determining the correct initial sounds.  As a challenge, they chose a picture and then wrote a sentence using the M or N word.  As you can see from above, we are beginning to use lower case letter paper in our work.  Here, the kids' goal was to shrink the size of their letters and get used to writing between the lines.