Thursday, October 2nd

SO MANY GREAT THINGS TODAY!

We began the Word Work Component of Daily Five today. What is Word Work?

Creating and maintaining a time every day to focus on words is critical to developing readers, writers, and communicators.  This time is spent in the following areas:

• Experimenting with words for learning and practicing a spelling pattern
• Memorizing high frequency words
• Generalizing spelling patterns
• Adding to our knowledge and curiosity of new and interesting words

At school, your student will have the opportunity to practice words using a variety of materials:

• Whiteboards
• Magnetic letters
• Wikki Stix
• Play Doh
• Letter Stamps
• Colored Markers
• Magazine Cut-Outs
• Tracing in Salt or Sand

I will introduce your student to a variety of practice activities that focus on words that he/she is working on. We will practice using the materials at school so that each student can explore different ways for mastering the words.

This is what that looks like:

AND WHAT ABOUT THAT LEAF MAN??????

We read this book today and created characters from the Leaf Collections students brought in this week. 

THESE FIRST GRADERS ARE AMAZING!!!!