STOP THE CLOCK!

We LOVE playing this game to help with telling time. Students frequently confused the hour and minute hand when telling time. As we learn how to tell time correctly, we have also learned other ways of saying the time. For example, 6:30 can also be said as half past 6. Keep practicing telling time on a daily basis to make sure your skills stay sharp. Visit the sites below to see just how fast you are getting at telling time. :)

Stop the Clock Game

TONS of Time Games

Sim/ple Syllables

This week we have reviewed how to determine how many syllables are in a word. Breaking up words into syllables allows a child to hear the different vowel sounds. A syllable is the beat of a word. Usually, every vowel SOUND will have its own syllable.

One trick to figuring out how many syllables a word has is to put you hand on the bottom of your jaw and say the word. Then, simply count how many times your jaw dropped in the word and that is how many syllables the word has! Or, you can clap out each part!

Example:
pack/ing bun/ny sci/en/tist com/pu/ter

Let's see what you got! Play some games below. :)

Log Splitting Words
Break it up Game
Syllable Factory Game

Poet Alert!

This just in: Spotted in room 202 were fresh new poets who were alive and ready to unleash their creative minds! Today we started reading and writing poetry. Poetry is a wonderful chance for students to play around with words and break all the rules they have learned on how to write ( GULP!). That's right! Complete sentences?? Nope! Periods?? Not so much!

Poetry is all about expressing feelings and thoughts about a topic. Today, they got a chance to write an acrostic poem all about themselves. There were some extremely creative creations. Students really took advantage of the "Be more Descriptive" poster full of synonyms for boring words such as: 'nice, happy, smart.'

After recess the students came back to discover a mystery person hung poems EVERYWHERE in the room! Poems were on shelves, walls, tables, drawers, Mrs. Tsengas, and cubbies! Ok, Mrs. Tsengas didn't have a poem on her, but they were everywhere. Readers were then asked to investigate and notice the features of each poem. We will continue studying poetry the next few weeks. Below are some neat sites to practice poetry. I can't wait to see what wonderful poems will be created next!

Silly Poems
Poetry for Kids
More Great Poems