We do WORD WALL every day in LITERACY BLOCK. At the beginning of the year, we thought Mrs M was CRAZY as she
showed us how to learn our words by cheering, chanting and actions.
Now we are CRAZY as well. Doing WORD WALL is so much FUN!
Here's what we do.
Now we are CRAZY as well. Doing WORD WALL is so much FUN!
Here's what we do.
First we TALK about a word-what are the TRICKY parts. We've learnt that we don't always SEE what we HEAR.... like in the word 'my'- we hear 'i' but we see a 'y'. We call a 'y' like this a GREAT PRETENDER'.We have to use our BRAIN to remember!
Next we SPELL the word using one of our WORD WALL CHEERS.
Next we SPELL the word using one of our WORD WALL CHEERS.Here we are doing 'OPERA'. We sing each letter like opera singers!
Some of our favourites are 'MOVIE STAR KISSES' and 'CHEERLEADER'.
Some of our favourites are 'MOVIE STAR KISSES' and 'CHEERLEADER'.
Our BRAIN loves singing and actions!
Last we WRITE the word 3 times, each time using a different colour so we make a RAINBOW WORD. Our BRAIN loves colour!Then we draw the shape around the word to help our BRAIN remember what the word looks like.
We need this for words like 'my' because what we hear is 'mi'. Can you see why the shape is important?
Then we do it ALL OVER AGAIN for each word!
WATCH OUT FOR OUR POSTS EXPLAINING SOME OF OUR FAVOURITE WORD WALL CHEERS!
BE CREATIVE, 1M. CAN YOU THINK OF SOME NEW CHEERS WE COULD DO?
LEAVE YOUR IDEAS IN A COMMENT.
MRS M :>)
16 comments:
Dear 1M,
I have a couple of suggestions for some cheers: what about cooees or echoes. Maybe some actions involving waves, fireworks or explosions. I bet you already do rapping (Lauren is good at saying "yow yow dude"!). Have fun!
Billee said...
my favourite cheer is the robot, the most favourite is the digging for treasure and my second favourite is the diving, swimming one.
my favourite word is "and" and I like the opera cheer, I like being a cheerleader and my other favourites are the marshmallow clap, volcano and the apple one. love Talia.
My dog is fun to play with and I love my doggy and she's very cute and cuddly and she runs alot and she likes me.
my favourites are bike riding and crocodile snaps. One day we could do a drawing pictures cheer.
I like Mrs. Marrinan and Mrs. Rodgers because they are nice.
I like word wall because I do opera. I liked the one we did today!
I like working word wall they are easy and they are for writing and all my friends like playing word wall too.
my favourite word wall cheer is bike ride and garbage truck. How about we try a computer typing or packing away cheer for our words?
I like doing word wall because it's fun. I like it when Mrs. M. does the opera with us.
i like the words "is" and "over". I like writing my words in dark blue.
I have finished one page of writing and now I have got on to the next page and it was about horses. I like writing because it is fun and I like learning.
i like drawing the shapes around words.
We love word wall because we do learn lots of words. I love rainbow words because they are fun.
I like writing because I want to be a good writer.
Thank you everyone for letting me come and help today. It's been very interesting seeing all the wonderful work you are doing on your word wall. I really like it when you are all cheering. It always sounds like you are all having great fun learning!
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