My daily schedule includes morning work as the students arrive. Later on in the school year, we will spend this time on word/language study, but at the beginning of the school year, we're focusing on letter recognition and letter sound knowledge. This will naturally lead to decoding. But until we're ready for decoding, our morning work is based on activities that we have practiced as a class. For example, today's activity required cutting and using a glue stick . We had practiced that as a class, so I felt confident that my students could focus on that activity for morning work. I really like to have a quiet start to the morning, so I prefer to give my students tasks that I know they will devote their attention to.... like our "M is for macaroni" activity.
This activity started with a trip to Sam's Club to buy a 6 lb bag of elbow macaroni. I think I got a good deal.... 6 bucks? Tim had to convince me that a second bag wouldn't be necessary. Again, I'm not great with spacial-math scenarios.
Next I created my letter M template- Just used Word and added Text Art. I printed this on cardstock because I was certain there would be a lot of Elmer's glue use.
In the morning, I put out containers of noodles at each table, along with glue for each student. Some took the minimalist approach.....
While others layered up the noodles.
When we made our class list of /m/ words, one of my students pulled out "M is for miniature." I paused for a moment, and repeated what she said. "Yeah," she said, "you know, miniature, mini, small?"
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