Friday, January 20, 2012

Rain on the Rooftops

This week we practiced reading our poem with and without motions. Below are two videos showing both ways.


Thursday, January 19, 2012

Accuracy Lesson on Syllables

A new CAFE strategy that I introduced this week was "Count syllables in one to three segments." We have talked about syllables before this week, but decided to add it to our CAFE board as a new strategy under the "A" for Accuracy. Below is a video of our mini-lesson in action. The class sat in a circle with a pile of our class names in the middle upside down. Each student took a turn and pulled a name out. That student read the name on the card, clapped the rhythm of the name, told us how many syllables and then the entire class clapped the name together!