Making small words from a big word

How many words can you make from 

Hippopotamus?

Here's how we did:

Writing letters

We have learned a great story from Greece about Daedalus and Icarus.

Today we pretended to be Icarus and we all wrote letters home to Mum explaining what has been happening on our island.

The Rainbow Fish

We have been reading this story in class.

Please check out http://storylineonline.net. It is terrific!! The screen Actors Guild Foundation presents Storyline Online, which is an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud. Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas. We loved Ernest Borgnine's reading of 'The Rainbow Fish' and can't wait to see the others!!! Happy Viewing!!!

Reading games

Fun learning to read

Here are more of the reading games we play:

 Matching word families

 Word Rubix cubes

 Building words

 Story Strips or Silly Sentences

 Beginning Blends

 All these games are fun and they help us practise our reading skills.

Wonderful words

We are getting better at independent writing everyday. Just look at us go!

Writing words beginning with w or wh

We are getting so good at writing.

Today we pracitsed writing big Ws and small ws.

We wrote as many words as we could think of that began with W or with Wh.

Some of us wrote lots of words!