Our First FULL Week as First Graders!

WOW! We have made it to the end of our first full week! We were VERY busy this week...

Sight Words continue to be an important part of our day. Now, and throughout the year, we will work on MASTERING both reading and writing our Sight Words. As we begin our weekly spelling routine, our lists will first consist of only Sight Words before we begin our Spelling Principles. 

We have also started building our READING STAMINA! Each day we will continue practicing what it looks like and sounds like when we are reading to self. We know we pick and spot and "park it," stay quiet and READ THE WHOLE TIME. 

Sharing our writing is becoming a very important part of our day! During Writer's Workshop, each First Grader has the opportunity to share the writing they are working on. We show respect to our classmates by staying quiet when they share and clapping when they are finished. 

Today was a VERY exciting day! It was our first trip to the library! We met with Mrs. Graef AND checked out books. Our library book rule is: if you take it home to read it is either IN YOUR HANDS or IN YOUR BACKPACK. If we never set our books down, we'll never lose or forget them. We only have a few minutes between library and lunch so we get to spend some time reading our new books around the room! Our weekly library time is Friday 10:15-10:40. 

Last, but not least, we met with our new Fourth Grade buddies in Miss McNamara's class! We spent time getting to know our new buddies and completed an All About Me page with them. Check out these First and Fourth Graders!