Into the Tub!
Mrs. Wishy Washy is always such a fun unit! It is a great story that gets the munchkins excited about reading and writing on their own. We use it to explore all sorts of fantastic phonological awareness skills, including rhyme, blending three sounds, separating three sounds and writing three letter words. We put many of these skills to work in some neat books that we make during this mini-unit.
We started off with choral & partner reading and we also used the pocket chart to practice some of our focus words.
After everyone was familiar with the text, we created three fun class books that followed the same text pattern that our main story had.
In our first book, we put the munchkins in the tub!
In our second book, we put all kinds of crazy, three-letter objects in the tub! The munchkins did a great job of counting each sound, putting a letter with each sound they heard, and then writing the word conventionally on their own!
"One day she washed a hat."
"One day she washed a fox."
"One day she washed a nut."
In our third book, we developed our own farm...a farm with all sorts of three-letter objects living on it. The munchkins got to practice those same skills again, only this time they composed the whole sentence. They used several of the sight words we've been working on.
"I see one rug."
"I see one fox."
"I see one nut."
The munchkins wanted to be able to take some of their hard work home, so we also created two little books so they could share their great reading skills with Mom and Dad.
The other focused on rhyme families, in particular, the "at" family. The munchkins had to decode the "at" family words on each page in order to properly illustrate it...so this time, instead of separating the sounds, they were blending in order to read. They did a great job!
We also took some time to learn about characters and setting, creating cute little stick puppets and a fun setting for a retelling of the story.
One of the more fun activities we did as we ended this unit was to decide who would like to play in the mud...like the crazy characters in the story!
We made a "person" graph to show the results.
Then we made mud!
Mixing...
Stirring...
Eating!
Oh! Lovely mud...
In the tub you go!
Such muddy fun!
Until next time...
Giggles,
Mrs. D.
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