First Grade, Reading, Set Five

We are deviating from our original schedule to read the book The Story of Flight by Mary Lee Settle. This is a Step-Up Book, copyright in 1967. K. is interested in flight since learning about the Wright Brothers for her Science Fair project. Most of the chapters are just a few pages, but the longer ones I have divided.

• Poster Words (Games for Reading pg 6) -- K. has been having a difficulty remembering how to spell her middle name, so we made a poster of it. I cut out or collected her name in different fonts and mediums. Then she glued or stuck them on and added some decorations to make a very pretty poster.

• Jigsaw Sentences (Games for Reading pg 67) -- we did four sentences, then mixed them up and made new sentences.
• Finish a Fairy Tale (Games for Reading pg 152) -- I wanted to use fairy tales K. had not heard before, so I picked up The Tasha Tudor Book of Fairy Tales from the library. I marked the places I wanted to ask "what do you think happened?" in The Flying Trunk ahead of time.
• Taking Turns (Games for Reading pg 148) -- we played this with sentences for reading, but later in the day (when K. was bored and I was feeding my mom) we used it to tell a story.