Happy Friday!

On Wednesday, the children at SCOPE Academy celebrated World Read Aloud Day, which is an awareness day advocating for literacy as a right that belongs to all people. It is celebrated around the world annually on the first Wednesday in March.World Read Aloud Day motivates children, teens, and adults worldwide to celebrate the power of words, especially those words that are shared from one person to another. By raising our voices together on this day, we show the world’s children that we support their future: that they have the right to read, to write, and to share their words to change the world. Our kindergarteners studied the book Snow by Uri Shulevitz, which is a book about a small boy who wishes for snow in Belgium. The students made berets to wear and snowflakes to hold for their performance. We were lucky to perform for Miss Dunaway's fourth grade class. The kindergarteners were so nervous! Kale and Luke took turns reading the words, while the rest of the class acted out the story. I was so proud of them! Mrs. Dodson's class performed for us and boy, was that a treat! Each 3rd grader had a different multicultural book and were dressed up like the main character. The kindergarteners moved in groups from reader to reader and were able to listen and experience six different books. Below are pictures that captured this spectacular event. 

In reading, we have also been learning a lot about word families, which are groups of words that have a common feature or pattern- they have some of the same combinations of letters in them and a similar sound. For example, at, cat, hat, and fat are a family of words with the "at" sound and letter combination in common. The 37 most common word families are: ack, ain, ake, ale, all, ame, an, ank, ap, ash, at, ate, aw ay, eat, ell, est, ice, ick, ide, ight, ill, in, ine, ing, ink, ip, it, ock, oke, op, ore, ot, uck ,ug, ump, unk. When reading with your child, point out the word families that are found in the book and have a discussion with your child about all the other words you could make with that word family. What would happen if they substituted the word for another word with the same pattern? Would it be a silly sentence? "Playing" with words is one of the most favorite things children like to do!

Have a great weekend! 

Mrs. Bowen :)