This is our room if you haven't had a chance to visit yet.
Writing Wall
Our Word Wall
Our Small Group Table
Our Book Boxes
Reading Corner
Computers and Word Work Station
Interactive Whiteboard
Secret Stories and Classroom Library
Reading to our stuffed animals in the morning is fun.
Expanding our vocabulary is important in first grade. Fancy Nancy helps us tune into interesting words.
Word Work helps us with our reading, writing and spelling.
Read-to-Self is a very important part of our day. This authentic reading helps us by practicing our fluency, reading strategies, and builds our reading stamina. We have built our reading stamina up to 20 minutes so far this year.
Students choose their own spot to do Read-to-Self.
They read from their own book box. They will be allowed to "book shop" soon for books of their own choice in their boxes.
One of our favorite "brain breaks" is recess. It is good for the body as well as the brain!
At the end of each day we check our classroom scoreboard. If the students have earned more "smiles" than "frowns" they get to have a one minute celebration. During the first week of school we had this paper "snowball" fight. This past week we added sight words to our snowballs and the students had to read the word before they could throw their snowball! Who says learning can't be fun?
