[Lizzie293131]

I am a first year teacher and am trying to use volunteers as much as possible. I will have one or two volunteers do running records with students but am trying to think of other reading, writing, and math activities for them to work with the students on. I have lots of volunteers and would like to find a way to use as many as possible to help the students practice their skills.

If you have any games, activities, etc. for reading, phonics, writing, math for one-on-one or partners that my volunteers can do, please let me know as I am struggling to think of ideas!!

Thank you!

[angelajw]

We are not allowed to use volunteers for paperwork so all of mine read with my children, work with sight word flash cards, math flashcards and money.

[SuzieQB]

I would also use parent volunteers to listen to reading, read aloud to model fluency, practice sight words, etc. I could never ask volunteers to do assessments unless they were trained teachers who knew what running records were all about.

[Cricket81]

I have found that this is great to set up with volunteers because it comes pre-organized.
http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Contents.html

Hope you like it.

[Lizzie293131]

Thank you for your help and ideas!!

[Tea"cheer"]

My volunteers mostly help during our Daily 5 time, so they either listen to kids read and/or read to them. I also have them do Rocket Math with small (2-3 kids) groups which is a much more calming way to implement it!

[jkristen]

what is rocket math???

[Tea"cheer"]

Not my favorite thing...but looked upon highly at my school. It can basically be summed up as a math fact timing. Kids move up levels if they reach or exceed their set goal. Honesltly, my kids always love it. But because I know it would have set me over the edge in school, I like to take the majority of the stress off of them by doing it in small groups.