We are in full swing now with You Can Read since we officially started back to homeschool on August 11!  Along with adding these new words, we also reviewed the previous 12 words from unit one, unit two, and unit 3.

Here’s a post sharing You Can Read Unit Four with Krash when he did it!  See all of Krash’s Kindergarten posts here.

 

Unit Organization

You can see how we store ALL of our You Can Read stuff here.  For current units I use this metal file container {Target} and hanging folders.  The pink ones are You Can Read units, the yellow are her Kindergarten Literature Unit Study Printables. I have a daily lesson plan for both in a sheet protector in the front.  The You Can Read printable lesson plan is here.

I have been asked a lot how we do things so I am trying to outline it for you as much as possible!  I am not sure if I will blog all the way through You Can Read like this, but if it is helpful, I might, let me know! Below you will see exactly what we did on each day and how I spread it out.

 

Day One

Making her words using the little ledge on her shelf.

 

Connecting the words to make shapes.

 

Color by number sight word, mom.

 

 

Day Two

Here is the before shot for day 2.

 

She chose to play Bitsboard first, we played a few games to practice her words. See more about Bitsboard in our first YCR post.

Here’s a video clip of Bitsboard in action.

 

She was not happy with me.  I didn’t laminate her puzzles, just used cardstock and that was not to her liking.  She grumbled through the entire thing.

 

 

Day Three

Our third day of lessons with these words…

 

We played BINGO, with Spielgaben pieces.

 

Color by number sight word…

 

Dot Painting her funny font words…

 

Finishing up with stamping words!

 

 

Day Four

Day 4 with these words.

She would play Toss and Read with our Education Cubes inserts every day, she LOVES this!

Here’s a video clip of us playing!

Using dot paint to do her word search…

Play Dough Words…

More play with Bitsboard…

Day Five

We began with finding words in sentences.  I had her use two different colors of markers.

She used pink to circle words from this week, and purple to circle any other words she remembered from previous weeks!  Then we read them together, she reads circled words, I read un-circled words.

 

Color by word…

 

She loves playing memory with her color by number sight words combined with the words Krash made when he was in Kindergarten.  Once we are done for the week, we laminate hers and add them with his and play!

Here’s a video clip of us playing…

 

She didn’t learn all 4 words as quickly, and I noticed a bit of memory loss with review words, but was totally fine with that!  I knew a review week was coming next, and we needed it! Our next post will share all we did for a solid review week!

Here’s most of her completed work from the time we spent with these words…

 

 

Download the FREE printables for You Can Read Unit 4 here

Purchase the You Can Read Bundle here {get access to the bonus items}

See our You Can Read YouTube playlist here

See our post featuring Unit 1, unit 2, and unit 3!

   

Be sure to see our Word Play ~ Learning to Read is FUN! post for more fun reading ideas.