No plans today
I didn’t plan anything for this week. Not on purpose. Fortunately, the spirit moved today and led us to rhyming words. We reviewed some things, but I was suddenly compelled to see where he is on rhyming. Good thing the spirit moved. I started with the whiteboard and simply going over sets of rhyming words and we did two pages together in a Reading Readiness workbook we have already. Naturally, I knew I should find something online for him to do as practice. He loves being on the computer! I very quickly came across a site that led to another with a great game for rhyming words. The first site has several links to online rhyming word practice as well as many other literacy and math skills for Kindergarten and PreK. Internet4Classrooms has their links grouped by skill which made to very easy to find those specifically on rhyming words. It gives a brief description of what each activity involves so you can pick what will work best for your child. I chose the link to a Scholastic game. Yes, the same Scholastic that has a book club that I even belonged to as a child. This game was so perfect for Z. He could pick from a variety of places which included a store, home and zoo. Then he simply clicked a top picture to hear and see the word and chose from three others to find a rhyming word. Very simple. There are audio instructions, words and pictures and it’s all done using the computer mouse. This works great for all types of learners, i.e. auditory, visual, etc. I’ve been on this site a number of time looking into books for early readers and never checked out the other resources like games and printables. So there’s games and stuff for K-8.
Today’s Web Resources:
We love to own our books in this house but we do utilize the local library. So, here’s what Z checked out this week:
I See, You Saw Nurit Karlin
Oliver Syd Hoff
The Berenstain Bears and Too Much TV Stan and Jan Berenstain
Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky Elphinstone Dayrell
Stuart at the Library Susan Hill
Stuart at the Fun House Susan Hill
Stuart Hides Out Susan Hill
Several of these are in the "I Can Read Book" series. I See, You Saw is a "My First I Can Read Book" and it was great to hear him read all but two words in this book on his own the first try. If you’re focusing on sight words as I am, this and the Stuart Little books in the series (those are all by Susan Hill) are great choices. If you search "I Can Read Book" under children’s books on Amazon, it will list all the books in that series which is multi-level (we’re reading level 1 books) and includes Amelia Bedelia and, my fave, Frog and Toad. Happy Reading!
