Dear Family, Your child will be borrowing books from the classroom to
Dear Family, Your child will be borrowing books from the classroom to enjoy at home as part of his/her homework. Please listen to your child read the book, log it, and return it to school the next day in the bag. If your child is reading a book that requires more than one night to finish, please send it back to school and we will continue to send the same book home until it is completed. An adult can fill in the reading log at first and gradually pass the job on to the child. Books will be borrowed Monday thru Thursday. Please keep in mind that these books are part of our classroom library-- take good care of them so that other children can enjoy them! A list of “book challenges” is provided. These activities are optional with projects that may be presented to the class. The more children read, the better reader they will become. We want to build confidence, fluency, comprehension and a love for reading! If you have any questions or concerns, please drop me a note… Thank you for your support, Ms. Olsen [email protected]
As an optional challenge, after you have finished reading your book, choose an activity and work on it at home. You may bring your project into school to share with the class. ü Keep a “Reading Detective” notebook. -Keep a log of books you have read. What did you like about the books? What were your favorite parts and why? What did you learn? -Make a “new words” section and write the new words you discover in the books that you read. Look the words up in the dictionary and write the definition. -Choose a long word from your book and write as many little words that you can find “hiding” in it. -Keep a running list of words in categories such as: compound words, contractions, nouns, describing words, verbs, number of letters, word chunks (-ing, -er), blends (st-, pl-), and digraphs (wh, sh, th, ch). ü Write a poem related to your book. ü Make a puppet of a story character. ü Record a second reading. ü Make a book jacket or diorama. ü Write your own version of the story. ü Draw/paint a scene from you book. ü Research a topic found in your book. ü Create a mobile of story characters and events.
firstgradeinroom14@2016
As an optional challenge, after you have finished reading your book, choose an activity and work on it at home. You may bring your project into school to share with the class. ü Keep a “Reading Detective” notebook. -Keep a log of books you have read. What did you like about the books? What were your favorite parts and why? What did you learn? -Make a “new words” section and write the new words you discover in the books that you read. Look the words up in the dictionary and write the definition. -Choose a long word from your book and write as many little words that you can find “hiding” in it. -Keep a running list of words in categories such as: compound words, contractions, nouns, describing words, verbs, number of letters, word chunks (-ing, -er), blends (st-, pl-), and digraphs (wh, sh, th, ch). ü Write a poem related to your book. ü Make a puppet of a story character. ü Record a second reading. ü Make a book jacket or diorama. ü Write your own version of the story. ü Draw/paint a scene from you book. ü Research a topic found in your book. ü Create a mobile of story characters and events.
firstgradeinroom14@2016
