We have had an absolutely AMAZING start to our year! You truly have some amazing kids and I am so enjoying our time together learning each day! This week we have been hard at work building reading stamina. Our goal is to read for 20 minutes uninterrupted at a time and we are already at 7 minutes!
We have also been hard at work learning about nouns. We love,love, love the Noun Song (I've included the video below) and the song/video Vowel Bat (also found below).
We have also been hard at work learning about nouns. We love,love, love the Noun Song (I've included the video below) and the song/video Vowel Bat (also found below).
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We have also worked a lot this week on our writing. We have been building our writing stamina too and we can write without stopping for 10 minutes! That is a HUGE HUGE HUGE achievement for first graders at this point in the year!
We use several books to help us get ideas and learn about being great writers. A few of our favorites have been Ralph Tells a Story and Rocket Writes a Story.
We use several books to help us get ideas and learn about being great writers. A few of our favorites have been Ralph Tells a Story and Rocket Writes a Story.
We have even started sharing our writing with our classmates and are enjoying hearing what everyone has worked so hard on writing. One skill that we are still going to spend time focusing on is handwriting. We are taking time to learn that good writers use capitals, spaces, punctuation and neat handwriting.
There is so much more that we have done so far but we will share more later. Just wanted to give an update to let you see a glimpse into our day so far.
There is so much more that we have done so far but we will share more later. Just wanted to give an update to let you see a glimpse into our day so far.