Snow+(vocabulary)

Vocabulary Snow 11/12/09

Opening song: The more we get together/Read together


 * __Adult Aside __**: The skill we’ll look at today is Vocabulary, knowing the names of things. First, children understand words for things (like juice, bottle, Mommy), then for feelings and concepts, and then ideas. Books give us three times as many unusual words as we use in everyday conversation. If our children have heard these words before, it will be easier for them to sound them out and recognize them when they learn to read.

 **__Read: The Snowy Day __**by Ezra Keats

Warm and cold are opposites (pg 24). Use this word “opposite” with your children—it is a word for the relationship between things and a good concept for children to know before they go to school. What are some other words in the story that we can think of opposites. Wet socks (pg 25) empty (pg 28) sad (pg 28) What’s another word for smacking? _hitting for street (pg 9) – road, lane.
 * __Adult Aside __** After reading the book, compare

Yes indeed, see all the words you can think of. Adults, your child learns more words from YOU because you know more words. Don’t change your words to easier ones, use those big words and explain them if you need to.

Children’s books contain 50 percent more rare words than prime-time television or the conversations of college graduates. How many exposures to a new word do children (and adults) need to be able to use it effectively? (let parents guess) Research shows they need about 12 exposures to a word to add it to their vocabulary bank. [|I'm A Little Snowman-] __ [|I'm A Little Snowman, Short and fat,] __ __ [|Here is my scarf And here is my hat.] __ __ [|When the sun comes out, I melt away.] __ __ [|But when it's cold, I'm here to stay!] __ Next, we’re going to read **__The Mitten __**. This is a folktale that has been told and retold in many different versions over time. I’m going to tell it with the help of this version by Alvin Tresselt and this yellow mitten and cast of animals. There may be some words you don’t recognize in this story. Try to see if you can guess what they mean just by listening to the story. Then, after I’ve finished the book, we’ll talk about a few of them. Trudging, pg 1 Scurrying pg. 3 Trotted pg 7 w/fox  Even songs and rhymes give children new words. Let’s try **__5 Little Snowflakes__** all together. Or 5 Little Snowmen with felt board Along came another and Then there were two.
 * Adult Aside: **<span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It has been estimated that children learn an average of 4,000 to 12,000 new vocabulary words each year in situations where they are listening to good books. This may be due to the difference in rare words – words they are unlikely to hear in every day conversations – they encounter reading as opposed to other activities.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">One little snowflake with nothing to do.

Two little snowflakes laughing with me. Along came another, and Then there were three.

Three little snowflakes looking for some more. Along came another, and Then there were four.

Four little snowflakes dancing a jive. Along came another, and Then there were five.

Five little snowflakes having so much fun. Out came the sun, and Then there were none! **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Now, this is a true book, called a “non-fiction” book, and it’s full of __information.__ <span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">[Do not need to read whole book, but read a couple of pages or parts of pages that show the words we find in non-fiction books are different from ones we find in stories.]
 * __Adult Aside__:** Some children who do not like stories like non-fiction books. Or they may like the variety of both. You can see that true books introduce children to many different words from the ones we read in stories.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Read **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Snowmen at Night **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> pop-up 10 little snowmen-(Tune: Little monkeys jumping on the bed) 10 little snowmen riding on a sled, one fell off and bumped his head, Frosty called the doctor and the doctor said, No more snowmen riding on that sled! continue until none are left. <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 18pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Read Snowballs by Lois Ehlert, Snow by Uri Shulevitz, or Snow by Manya Stojic, **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bell MT','serif'; font-size: 18pt;">Goodbye Song: Razzama Tazzama **