Game Day in Kindergarten and First Grade Prep Camp

It was game day in kindergarten and first grade prep.  We're half way through our time together and it was time to spice things up.  After writing our names and jumping on the tramp we explored a few sections of Starfall.com We worked on individual letters, CVC words, and reading bigger books.

 We then split and worked on word families with half of the group and the other half worked on reading on their personal reading level.

 Our math game today was "Guess My Secret Rule" and just like I promised I pulled out the silverware drawer.  We started our game outside but then had to have a heart-to-heart about staying focused (it's really much harder outside) so we moved inside in order to complete our game.

 I put out three items with a matching attribute and a fourth item that doesn't match.  After playing with the silverware for a while we moved on to using the attribute blocks which are super convenient for this game.

Instead of writing individually in our journals today we wrote as a group.  We talked about how we can put words on the paper by stretching the sounds we hear to isolate the letters and then write one letter at a time on our paper.  We also talked about how if we don't know what a letter looks like we can go to the front of our journal and sing the ABC song while pointing at each letter.  We stop at the letter we're looking to write and the journal will show us what it looks like.

I think our game day spiced things up just enough to spark more learning!  I look forward to seeing you next week.