Blue Day

Ah blue, it was so wonderful seeing all of the students wearing blue today (it is one of my favorite colors!). Our classroom looked like a sea of 21 smiling students. Today, we worked on learning our language arts procedures. This featured reviewing our word wall words for the week. Word Wall words are sight words that all of our wonderful students should be able to master with automaticity (with an automatic response, or fluently) by the end of the year. Here are our first words:

a

see

like

I

the

We also began learning our first word chunk or word family. When learning word families/chunks, I tell students that we can make many different kinds of words by switching out the beginning sounds. Our word chunk for this week is "_at". The students did a great job of coming up with different "at" words such as - cat, sat, rat, mat, etc.

Tomorrow is our first Friday, and short day! I can't believe the first week is almost over. Holy moly! Remember to send your students in orange!

Love,

Mrs. Walker