It's been a great morning at B.A. Kennedy! I got to spend some time in Mrs. Ashbacher's kindergarten classroom, and would like to share some of the great learning that I observed today. I hope you enjoy the video clips and photo in this post. These are from our reading breakout groups, and resemble what reading breakout groups look like throughout our kindergarten classrooms each day. It sheds good light on the amazing reading skills that our kindergarten students are developing!
This video clip shows kindergarten students reviewing their Jolly Phonics (http://jollylearning.co.uk/) sounds in the large group setting. Many of these sounds are what we call "tricky sounds." As you can see, Mrs. Ashbacher is leading the sound review from the smartboard while the students respond orally.
This video clip shows students practicing new words that incorporate their Jolly Phonics sounds, also in the large group setting. As you can see, students do a very nice job with these words as well!
This clip was taken during our small group reading breakouts. Mrs. Schneider, one of our teaching assistants, is working with students on vocabulary words. This is a game-like setting where students get to keep the cards if they get the words correct.
This photo shows another small group station in Mrs. Ashbacher's room. These students are working on Compass Learning (https://www.thelearningodyssey.com/). The students do a very nice job of navigating throughout their various activities!
This video shows Mrs. Ashbacher working with a small group of students. Yesterday, the students went through this story and circled their sight words (words that need to be memorized, not sounded out phonetically) as well as their blends (blends help with fluency [reading speed] --- as students learn sounds that are frequently blended together, they are able to improve upon their reading speed).
Today, these students are reading each page of the story as a small group, and then an individual reads as well.
