Resilience in Learning to Read
3/1/2019
Being from England I didn't grow up knowing Dr. Seuss books as my American friends have. But, from becoming more familiar with his stories over the past few years of working Internationally and to honor his birthday, here are a few of my favorite Dr. Seuss rhymes: “And will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)” “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” “You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.” One key message here is resilience. This is something I try and instill in pupils daily, not only in reading but in all areas of learning. From studying some of our favorite Dr Seuss books this week we have been improving our sight word recognition as well as learning a bit more about rhyming patterns. Here the children were given the rhyme ending on trees from the Lorax. They then had to use letter sounds as the onset to invent an alien word as Dr Seuss often likes to do, or a real word. They then placed it under the correct tree to make the trunk. Illustrators and independent learnersWhilst many Pre-School and Early Years teachers are tempted to over prepare activities for children and laboriously pre cut many resources for them to use, at PNA we encourage children to be independent thinkers. Therefore, you will see that although occasionally, an activity will be initiated by the teacher rather than the pupil, the children not only learn to access the resources they need, they also cut and make the shapes and designs as they wish. Their fine motor and scissor skills are getting a much better work out as well as working resourcefully! The result... every fox puppet was unique and every cat's hat in a class of it's own. Other highlights from the week...Show and tell... "Which Pet Should We Get?" Dr Seuss activity time. Sharing time with the pupils of Lower School. Reciprocal learning at it's best... Waving our flags as we supported the Kindergarten Iditarod race.
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Melissa SmithMs. Smith has a degree in Early Childhood Education and has taught kindergarten for many years. Alaska has been home to Ms. Smith for 28 years, and she can't imagine living anywhere else! She has four children, a dog and two cats. She loves reading, camping, gardening, and genealogy! Archives
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