Change for Kids

There have been so many changes in the past couple of weeks. I lost one student because he was in the hospital. Thankfully all is well. The other student I started to work with now works with Stephen. I was able to pick up another girl. Hopefully I’m able to stick with her throughout the semester. 

Today started out as a normal day with the routined site words and phonics worksheets. However, we tried a few things differently as well. Each student had a newspaper or magazine, looked for site words in the articles, and cut and pasted them onto paper. Then I played a flashcard game with my students where they each had to read a word on a card and give me a sentence, each of which got them a point. Finally, all of our students played a group matching game where they had to overturn two cards, match them, and say the word. It was an unusually long day, but putting in the extra time was worth it so see the children having more fun.