Read, Read, and Read
We all live busy and eventful lives and at times it is hard to complete all that we hoped to accomplish. However, if there is one thing that we should always do our best to achieve daily, would be to read. Language is the key to unlock all doors in our future. At least once a day have your child read to you, read by themselves, or read to them.
RAZ-Kids is also a wonderful site to go. They have levelled books to your child's reading level and ask comprehension questions.
Phonics!
Level your Book!
TAKE ME TO RAZKIDS!!!
RAZ-Kids is also a wonderful site to go. They have levelled books to your child's reading level and ask comprehension questions.
Phonics!
Level your Book!
TAKE ME TO RAZKIDS!!!
Fry's 1000 sight words. Did you know that the first 100 words of Fry's list make up 50% of what you read!
Last Years Novels 2014-2015Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes |
Our last novel study is the classic Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. We will be reading about the courageous Sadako and how her story made her a heroine to children in Japan.
This book links with our social curriculum by studying stories and people of the past and appreciating how they impact the present. |
How can I be a Detective if I have to Babysit?
Our current novel study as a class is How Can I be a Detective if I have to Babysit. We read this as a class on Thursdays. We always have a class discussion about what is happening in the book and what might happen in the future.
This book is great for our young readers to practice the reading skills of: prediction, sequence, and asking questions. I encourage you to ask your child about the book and help develop their predictions! From the back: " Stevie Diamond. Age 12. Female. Private Detective. She and her partner, Jesse, have already cracked their first case. Now the pair is visiting Stevie's father at his tree-planting camp in the Rocky Mountains — but how can they have a fabulous wilderness holiday when six-year-old Alexander, armed with a loaded squirt-gun, is trailing along? In this Stevie Diamond Mystery, when an international smuggler starts snooping around Alexander's house, baby-sitting suddenly becomes an occupation worthy of the Diamond and Kulniki Detective Agency." |
Ida B
Our One School One Book committee has chosen Katherine Hannigan's Ida B.
Every morning our admin team asks the students questions about the book and gives the answers the following day. This is another opportunity for you to read with your child. Although it's important to have your child read, its also important for them to listen to others read. It can help develop fluency and to learn new words. Have fun! From the back: "Ida B. Applewood believes there is never enough time for fun.That's why she's so happy to be homeschooled and to spend every free second outside with the trees and the brook. Then some not-so-great things happen in her world. Ida B has to go back to that Place of Slow but Sure Body-Cramping, Mind-Numbing, Fun-Killing Torture—school. She feels her heart getting smaller and smaller and hardening into a sharp, black stone. How can things go from righter than right to a million miles beyond wrong? Can Ida B put together a plan to get things back to just-about perfect again?" |