Sound Slides and Translating Patterns

 

This morning we began learning how to read CVC (consonant vowel consonant) words by using a sound slide.  Students have letter cards that they use to "climb" the waterslide.  They slide the letters down the slide, saying the letter sound as it goes down and then slide all the sounds together at the bottom to make the word!  I did it on the Smartboard as students did it at their desks (see pictures below).  We made words using these letters: m, s, f, b, t, c, and a (short a sound).  The words we made were:  mat, sat, fat, bat, cat and Sam.


Sound slide on the Smartboard
 

In Math we learned about translating patterns.  We looked at different patterns and discovered that although the pictures were different, they all repeat the same way.  Students were challenged to make their own patterns with cubes that repeat the same way or draw a pattern that repeats the same way.  Ask your child to make patterns that repeat in different ways (AB, ABC, AAB, ABB, AABB, etc.)  You can use Lego, coins, colours, toys, pasta...

Students looked at these two patterns (both ABB patterns) on the Smartboard, then made a pattern with their cubes that repeated the same way (see below)

 

Your child is bringing home a yellow sheet with our first lesson of popcorn words and sentences.  Please listen to him/her read the sentences several times.  I will be testing students next week to see how well they know the words.  Extra practice will be sent home if necessary.  Thanks for your help!

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