The leader of the day provides children with
a daily predictable, shared writing experience. It is an interactive writing activity that is done on a
daily basis and introduces students to the writing process in a shared experience. By participating in
the leader of the day, students learn…
· Name
recognition
·
Proper letter formation
·
Upper and lowercase letter recognition
·
Associate letters and sounds
·
Number recognition
·
Counting
All children get to be the leader of
the day at some point through out the month. Depending on how many children you have in a class.
What does our Leader of the day look like?
When
choosing the leader of the day, I go through name cards with names and picture of each child in the class.
I choose a child who is ready for the
day and say…
·
This person is sitting at carpet
·
This person has eyes forward
·
This person is ready for circle
·
This person has seven letters in their name (how every many
letters are in the child's name that you are thinking of)
I then draw seven lines on the dry eraser
board counting as I draw them.
___ ___ ___ ___
___ ___ ___
Then
I write 7 letters under the lines.
· This
person has a vvv sound, who’s name starts with the vvv sound?
· Does Vicky start with the sound vvv?
· Does Valeria start with the sound vvv?
· Does Victor start with the sound vvv?
I write down all the children’s names
that we come up with on the board.
Then we count all the letters in each child's name and write that number
next to the name.
Vicky 5
Valeria
7
Victor 6
The group figures out which one has the 7 letters (or how many you have
put under the lines on board)
I then write the name on the lines naming
each letter as I write it.
If there is more then one child with the same
amount of letters give them a clue by writing the ending letter and see if they can figure out who it is.
If that is not enough then give them
verbal clues
·
This person is a girl
·
This girl is wearing a green shirt
·
This girl has long brown hair
·
This girl has it up in one ponytail
Once we have the leader of the day we go right
into the morning message.
Morning Message
