Star Name is our weekly 'invitation' to Word Study in K1 at ISS. At the beginning of the week a new 'Star' is revealed and this week, it was Emma! Emma has three letters in her name -- E, M, and A -- that all make different sounds. We learned some actions to represent these sounds and talked about other words that have these same sounds. We also focused on the 'form' of the letters, brainstorming what their shapes reminded us of and learning to write the letters in D'Nealian style. We practiced tracing and writing letters in our Word Study notebooks and made sand letters for our personal sand tracing books. One of our favourite Star Name activities this week was thinking up questions to ask Emma in an interview which we did over Skype because she was at home sick. What a great time we've had with Star Name this week so far! I wonder who will be next week's 'Star'?
If you want to see more about our interview with Emma and the Star Name activities we did this week, check out the documentation below:
If you want to see more about our interview with Emma and the Star Name activities we did this week, check out the documentation below: