Raise Up Your Voices

      Hello everyone, last term was an extremely busy term with all the training workshops and other school activities. However, while I have not been blogging as regularly as I would like, I have been compiling the various activities my students and I participated in to share with you soon.

      One of the main events at our school last term was the "Raise Up Your Voices" literacy event. This event took place on Universal Children's Day- 20th November, 2013.

The 'Raise Up Your Voices" banner-an appropriate theme for our Literacy Day focus on Fluency>

 

During the term the administration and staff wanted to focus on 'Fluency Development' at all levels in the school. Teachers worked with their students in re-inforcing the important components of fluency- automacity and prosody.

For the literacy day event, my Second Year students were going to demonstrate their improved fluency in reading a text very familiar to them and one they enjoyed- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle .

In the weeks preceding the event I modelled the fluent reading of text for my students. After selecting the text, we focused on recognizing tricky words. Then students had multiple opportunities to read the text in small groups and as a class.


To make our presentation a great one for the event, I gave students chart size pictures of the various things the caterpillar ate and oh boy did they have fun painting them.



A student painting the swiss cheese the caterpillar ate on Saturday.



A student painting the ice- cream cone the caterpillar ate.

Here are other students painting some fruits the caterpillar ate.

Students painting a slice of salami and a piece of cherry pie.

Here are some finished pieces!!!

I was extremely proud of my students. They made a great effort to capture the details of the text.

My students truly enjoyed their opportunity to be a part of this experience.

A video of the presentation can be viewed on my facebook timeline.

When next I do this presentation with another group of students I intend to put a Trinidadian twist to it. That is, the fruits and other food items will all be local fruits found in Trinidad such as mangoes, pommerac, tamarind, paw paw balls, sugar cake, guava cheese just to name a few.


Hope You Are Inspired!!!!