Superkids

5/4/14

     Students have been very busy learning about different letter sounds and reading more stories in our readers.  We are doing well sequencing events and identifying the beginning, middle, and end of stories.  Students continue to work on drawing conclusions and cause and effect.

     We have also learned about hot stuff, worms (many that we had never even heard about), and night time community workers in our Super-Duper magazines.  Our worms and night life issues have tied in perfectly with our science and social studies units.  We are currently using real worms in our innovation lab experiments and we have been talking about community workers in our community unit.



3/30/14

     In More Adventures of the Superkids students are currently learning about the r-controlled vowels (ar, or, ir, er, ur).  We are also reading more stories in our readers per unit.  Students identify the main idea and supporting details in stories, sequence events, recall details, and complete sentences about what happened in each of the stories or poems.

     In our Super-Duper magazines students have read about games that children play all over the world, boats and ships, and America's national parks.



2/16/14

     We have finished Adventures of the Superkids and will now be starting More Adventures of the Superkids.  In our first unit we will look at y as a vowel.  We will also continue to review things we have already learned and apply those rules to other words.

     We will also start looking at setting of stories as well as continuing to sequence events of stories, and identify the beginning, middle, and end of stories.  We will also continue to read more of our non-fiction magazines.



1/19/14

     We are starting the last book of Adventures of the Superkids.  This student book contains the last two units of Adventures of the Superkids.  We will then go into More Adventures of the Superkids.

     We have been talking about short and long vowels in the last couple of units.  Students have learned that vowels have short and long sounds.  We learned that when a vowel comes at the end of a word it is usually long and we learned about 'super e'.  The students also learned the rule for adding an ending to 'super e' words - drop the e and add the ending.

     In unit 9 we will be learning about CVVC (consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant) words.  Students learn that when two vowels are together the first one is long and the second one is silent.  We will use the saying "when two vowels go walking the first one does the talking" to help us remember the rule.

     Students have also been working on identifying the beginning, middle, and end of a story, recalling details in the story, and sequencing events from a story.



12/1/13

     We are starting unit 6 of Adventures of the Superkids.  In this unit students learn that vowels also have a long vowel sound.  We are also looking at characters in the stories that we are reading.  Students will be planning out their own characters and then writing about them.

     We read our fifth issue of Super-Duper and learned different ways to find things.  Students read about how dogs can help track scents to find people, how a lost city was found, and how a computer can be used to find a sunken ship.



11/10/13

     We have been busy with Superkids over the past month.  The students have learned about nouns and verbs, writing and answering questions, problem and solution, and rhyming words just to name a few things.  Our writing is improving with us remembering to begin with capital letters and end with the correct punctuation.

     This week we will be starting unit 5 of Adventures of the Superkids.  In this unit students will learn the rules for adding -ing and -ed to the end of words.  We will also talk about adjectives and synonyms and antonyms.  Students will write about a character in their writing.



10/13/13

     We will finish unit 2 this week and begin unit 3 of Adventures of the Superkids.  In unit 2 the students worked a lot with question words (where, what, why, who, when, and which).  We are continuing to work with our question words in our writing too by asking, writing, and answering questions we have about things.
     In unit 3, students will work with words that have ng and le.



10/6/13

     We finished our first unit of Adventures of the Superkids and have started working on unit 2.  Last week students were introduced to their first Super-Duper magazine.  It talked about astronauts and how they fix things in space.  Students read about the space station and robot arms.  They then labeled and wrote about astronauts and robot arms.
     In unit 2 we are working on question words (where, what, why, who, when, which) and th and wh words.  We have read the first story of this unit called "What Can You Buy With a Nickel?" where Frits wants to buy a gift for Doc but only has a nickel.  We are going to talk about characters in the story and what we can know about the characters just from what we read in the story.

9/18/13

     We finished our Welcome Back Superkids books and began working on the first unit of Adventures of the Superkids.  In this unit students are working on the words with sh and ch.  We have also learned about pronouns and nouns.  The students have read two stories and a poem in our readers.  We have discussed problem/solution as well as cause/effect with the stories.

     We have also been working hard on our writing skills.  The students wrote about one adventure that they had and we will be working on adding to what we wrote this week.  This coming week we will also read our first Super-Duper magazine. 

9/1/13

     We have been working in our Welcome Back Superkids books.  Students are working on blending sounds to decode words, identifying initial sounds and medial sounds, and identifying vowels and consonants.  Also in our books are different stories that the students have been reading in small groups with me or with a buddy.  We have also talked about complete and incomplete sentences and will be looking at exclamation and question marks.