Fantastic Friday!

Happy Friday Fantastic First Grade Families!

We had another wonderful week in Room 21! We're keeping track of reading, making goals, revising our writing, and so much more!

This week we began getting familiar with our sorting journals. Once Word Study begins and we are learning how words work and the principles of spelling, we will be doing A LOT of sorting. This week we sorted our classmates names, vowels and consonants, capitals and lowercase, and tall/short/hanging letters.

We have been learning about the good habits good readers have. We know that good readers take a sneak peek, do something at the end of a book, and READ READ READ! To help us keep track of our reading, we use our reading mat and post-it notes to set goals. When we get ready to read, we make a stack on our START side, then start reading our way through the stack. As we finish a book, we move it to our STOP AND START AGAIN side. If we finish all of our books, we start making our way through the stack again!

We learned another math center! Ask your kiddo how to play "In and Out!"

This week we learned a REALLY important saying in Writer's Workshop - "When you think you're done, you've just begun!" After we finish a story, we know that we need to REVISE. We can revise our story by rereading it from the beginning and making sure we've answered WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, and HOW so our reader knows ALL about our small moment! I bet we will come back on Tuesday with some more small moment story ideas!