Literacy Centres in Year One!
We have been super busy in Year One! We are becoming more confident and comfortable in our new classroom and playground and are loving our new furniture!
Each week we focus on a big book story, a new spelling sound and a new list of sight words. We have been working in small groups to rotate through a range of activities that help us to practice literacy skills as well as cooperation, good communication and team work.
While reading our big book we discuss reading strategies such as predicting, breaking the story into beginning, middle and end as well as looking at punctuation and exploring the main characters.
Learning sight words can be a little tricky at first so we practice them every day! We are becoming faster in our recall of letter sounds which is helping us to sound out and write new words!
Check out what we have been up to!
Using play dough to make sight words!
Using something soft and squishy also helps develop our fine motor muscles in our fingers!
Playing fun games like Bingo to help us learn new sounds and test out our listening skills!
Using letter tiles to make CVC words.
Listening carefully for middle sounds – vowels can be tricky!
Using the iPad as a tool for learning.
Taking care to form letters from the correct starting point!
Creating a character portrait of Horace – our big book focus.
