Here are some fun games to practice our Literacy Skills. If you look at the top of our blog – “Pages” you will see “Language Arts Sites to Visit” and Tech Tools – Literacy. I had put the sites below in these pages. So you can find more fun literacy games if you click on either of these titles. For now, check out the games below. Just click on the pictures and you will be taken to the site.
Cookie Monster’s Letter of the Day
Click on the picture and it will take you to another page. To play click on a picture and drag it to Cookie Monster’s mouth.
To go to another letter click on the arrow.
This is a good game for students needing practice naming letters and putting them in abc order. Have fun. Again, click on the picture and it will take you to the site. Then click on “Go”.
Alphabet Antics – Here is another game to practice letter names.
Popcorn Words – this is a fun game to practice beginning sight words.
Browser Books – Here are some online stories your child can read. If you look at the top there are drop down menus. You can choose level 1, 2, 3, 4 , etc. They are from Kathy Cassidy’s Grade One class in Saskachewan
Hello Mrs Lynch and Room 102
I like your games – even though the children in our class are a little older, some of us still need help with naming all the letters and putting them in order, so I really liked ‘alphabet antics’ and think I will use it with my class next week.
I find it very interesting that you have to speak French one year and English the next. Do the teachers speak both or specialise in one? Is it confusing for you to remember which language you are learning/speaking? Do you carry on learning French as well?
What a very valuable skill to be bilingual – it will help you greatly when you are older. We have just started a French club at our school, and I am hoping to put something on our blog about it soon. We love learning French, but I don’t think we would be very successful at doing all our lessons in our second language!
Mrs Monaghan
A Room with a View, Class 2
Hi Mrs. Monaghan,
It is great to hear from you. Actually, I teach at an English school. I am not fluent in French so I teach in English. My school is in a Francophone community. This means French is the mother tongue. So most of our students begin their Kindergarten year speaking mostly in French – but by first grade they are pretty fluent in English, too. I have a few students who are still trying to speak in English and a few English speaking children who are trying to learn French. In grade 1 and 2 students have 2 1/2 hours of french per week by a french teacher. In grade 3 students have a chance to go into a bilingual program where 1/2 of the day is in English and other 1/2 of the day is in French or stay in the English program with 2 1/2 hours of french per week. They have to take a test at the end of grade 2 to get into the bilingual program.
All through our school you can hear French and
English being spoken. I practice my french with my kids. They are a big help especially when I need help understanding someone speaking only in french.
I hope you are enjoying your weekend. What is your weather like? The leaves are starting to change here. Soon they will be falling.
From your friends in Quebec,
Mrs. Lynch and Room 102
Dear Mrs Lynch and children,
Wow what a great way to learn and having fun at the same time. I really feel you have got a wonderful teacher been Mrs Lynch that makes learning so much fun.
When I was I child I never had these amazing games to learn from or even a computer.
Mrs Lynch I think that is so wonderful that you and your children can speak English and French.
I speak Italian from when I was a child I was more fluent speaking Italian but once, I attend school it all changed. However am still able to speak Italian only not so fluent.
Happy learning everyone.
From your 1# fan in Australia,
AA
Dear AA,
I didn’t have a computer when I was in school either. I was in my 4os when I bought my first computer. Education sure has changed. When I was in school we had to do a lot of memorizing answers to questions. We learned how to read from basal readers “Dick and Jane” . I think Math was just learning how to add and subtract.
Kids today do so much more than I did in school.
That is great that you speak Italian. Were you born in Australia?
from your friend,
Mrs. Lynch
@ Mrs Lynch,
Yes you are so right learning is so much fun and the world really is closer than you think.
I really feel with computers have made learning rather interesting on so many levels.
Yes I was born here in Australia however my mum is from Rome and my dad is from Trieste.
Being the first born somehow I was always spoken to in Italian first and then English.
From your pal,
AA
Dear AA,
Thanks for writing back to me. That is so interesting to find that your Mum and Dad were from Italy. Have you ever been back there? Italy is another country that I would like to visit. Maybe I will get a chance to travel more once I retire. We are lucky to have computers in the classroom and connect across the globe to you.
from your friend,
Mrs. Lynch
Reading games are very helpful for the children to read and lean the letters. Children enjoy while playing reading games!