And where does magic come from? I think that it's in the learning.
Dar Williams
Well, we're back and ready and willing to wave the "magec" wand to create the magic of learning in our students! While I'm sure that everyone in our team really enjoyed the well-deserved Christmas break, we're all pretty anxious to begin the new semester with our plans, tips, and strategies tucked away in our "magecal" hats ready to be implemented at a moment's notice. And, this first session speaks volumes about how we're all raring to perform our magic on our students! Go Team MAGEC!
My student lived up to his "pinky" promise to me today, by trying to do his best in focusing and working with me during our session. Although I'm sure it must have been hard for him to sit still for longer than 20 minutes, we really did accomplish quite a bit for the first day.
After going over the letters and sounds of the alphabet, I read him an alphabet book that had pictures to go with the words of the letters. While this may have been rather elementary for him, I felt that he needed this review of letter-sound recognition since his main weakness is in decoding. We then proceeded to create a word bank and word wall of several sight and high-frequency words. As a culminating activity, he dictated a short story using all these words in which I read to him, and then, he read it back to me. Hopefully, this will prove meaningful to my student, since the story was drawn from his background knowledge.
All in all, today's session went pretty smoothly, and I have confidence that the magic of learning will continue throughout the semester and beyond!
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Word bank is definitely what I'll be using too! Great way to improve on pronunciation, vocabulary, and spelling. Glad to hear that your session went smoothly.
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ReplyDeletelove the sweater...I'm sorry it didn't keep you warm enough! Mine didn't keep me warm either...gonna bring a jacket next meeting.I'm glad your off to a great start, let's keep the momentum going! Have a Great week;)
Way to go Geri! I'm glad to know we think alike and are both creating word banks! That was great confirmation for me as we shared our sessions last night. Keep up the great work helping your student crack the code!
ReplyDeleteI think a "concept" bank or webbing variant might work better with my student. Thanks for the reminder, Geri and Erik! We're in different places and tackling different things with our students, but I'm confident we'll all wind up happy with our end results in MAGECal May!
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