Stenhouse Publishers just posted the first chapter of Math Work Stations on their website, so I thought I’d share it with you all as well! Enjoy! The book will be available mid-January, but you can pre-order it now!
Read the first chapter here!
Archive for December 10th, 2010
A sneak peek at Math Work Stations!
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Poetry Friday: The importance of nursery rhymes
Posted in Poetry Friday, tagged nursery rhymes on December 10, 2010| 5 Comments »
Here’s some information to share with parents at conferences this year… Did you know that children who know 8 nursery rhymes by heart at age 4 will be among the best readers by the time they are 8? (Mem Fox in Reading Magic). This is because children who know nursery rhymes usually can play with language and its sounds and have developed phonological (and phonemic) awareness. Pre-K, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms should be filled with rhymes! How about this one for starters?
Higglety, Pigglety, Pop
by Samuel Goodrich (1846)
Higglety, pigglety, pop!
The dog has eaten the mop:
The pig’s in a hurry,
The cat’s in a flurry,
Higglety, pigglety, pop!
This is a nice nursery rhyme to use with young children learning to read because of the sight words, the, in, and a. Also, there are several CVC words that are easy to decode including pop, mop, dog, pig, and cat!
Debbie Diller 