Objective - Students will read a book with parent(s) and identify words with specific sounds or patterns.

Summary - On Fridays, a child will take home a teddy bear (Buddy Bear) for the weekend along with a book s/he

would like to read from the classroom library.  Parents will be asked to read the book with/for child.  They will then

be asked to perform a simple phonics word hunt based on concepts taught that week.  The child will be able to

participate in the choice of phonics activity as well as book.  Follow-up activity will be to write a short story or poem

using the word sounds or patterns to share when Buddy Bear returns to the classroom on Monday morning.

Implementation - Buddy Bear is a little worse for the wear (he sports patches on his right arm and one leg!) but his adventures in my students homes each weekend and the stories that come back, collaboratively written with Mom or Dad's help, are a sharing time for all of us.   My students look forward to taking Buddy Bear home and then returning to read their stories to read to the rest of us.  We are putting all the stories into a binder which will go into our classroom reading library.

Objective - Students will ...

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