Word Families

I am not off to a good start with blogging a whole lot, but I promise that I am going to try and get better at it! When I think about sitting down to blog, I think of something else that I have to get done for school and I push blogging aside.

This week we have been doing activities that are all about snowmen. My little ones have had a blast! They came back from Christmas break ready to learn and it has not been as crazy as I thought it would to get back into the swing of things, even with getting two new students our first week back!

This is actually the first year I am spending a week to discuss each word family. Usually on Monday I write a list of words that belong in a certain word family, this week was the -og family, and I let students discuss with a friend what the words have in common and which word family they think the words belong in. I love this part, because my students are teaching each other! On Tuesday, we review the word family and they brainstorm words that belong in that family. I get so excited when my little ones come up with words I haven't thought of. On Wednesday, they create their own list and pick one word to use in a sentence. I use my lists found in my Word Family Lists pack, click here to check it out. When it rolls around to Thursday, students build the word family words in a book that The Moffatt Girls created. I love these little books and it really shows that they students are sounding out their words. You can find it here! On Friday my kids usually have a word sort to do, but that is every other Friday, after we have two new word families.

Since we had a loooooooong break, it has been a while since we talked about the one that was introduced before Christmas break. I wanted to make sure the students will still familiar with the words because their word family book had them build words in that family. To review, I wrote -ig and -og on the board and had students come up and write a word in either word family. I was so proud of them because they remember a lot of words that belonged in the word family that was introduced before Christmas. I couldn't believe it! Needless to say, my students rocked building their -ig and -og words today. Here are some pictures of their list they created!

 

 

Happy teaching, I am off to get ready for tomorrow before heading home!

 

 

~Danielle