Reviewing Bossy R in AR

Pirates love to make the /ar/ sound and so do we. Click here to sing along...

Can you list any other words with the /ar/ sound?

Work Over Time

The latest Standards-Based Bulletin Board is complete!

How is your child's phonemic awareness when writing?

Morning Message Edits

Morning Warm Up - Already?

Completing our morning warm-up with this week's weekly words:

though, above, break, already, caught, off, garden.

Can you write a 5-7 word sentence for each weekly word?

Compound Words

Working on what makes a compound word.

Our favorite activity this morning, was this interactive song.

Want to hear the song? Check out the Compound Boogie...

Can you list any other compound words?

Alphabetizing Weekly Words

Morning Warm Up: Putting my weekly words in ABC order.

Morning Warm Up

While waiting for the final bell to ring and the morning announcements, we worked on our morning warm up of our weekly words.

E-D Makes Three Sounds? Wow!

Ask your child to sing to you a new song they learned today...

Can you think of any other -ed words...

... that make the /t/ sound?

... that makes the /d/ sound?

... that makes the /ed/ sound?

Practicing Editing Quotations

Morning Message again had punctuation corrections that included quotation marks. Yee-Haw!

Punctuation Spies

Last week's homework reviewed quotation marks. This morning's warm up was also another opportunity to practice using the fabulous duo.

1. the sleepover was a lot of fun said jessica
2. are you coming over to my house asked patrick

During Reader's Workshop, we all searched for use of quotation marks and other punctuations in one sentence.

How would you edit this morning's sentences?

Caroling with High-Frequency Words

'Farm-tastic' first graders love it when I give them a new song. One of the songs this week was a high-frequency word song to the tune of Jingle Bells. Check them out:

High-Frequency Words Song (to tune of Jingle Bells) from Patricia Wallace on Vimeo.

What other songs do you know that help you learn your words in a snap?

Need more practice?

Working on our language skills... online!

What is your favorite language skills game available online?

What Is a Contraction?

A contraction is two words, put them together ...

... leave out a letter (or letters) then put an apostrophe in its place to form a new word.

Here are some first graders playing a contraction matching game available online:

Check out the matching contraction game under the 'Language Skills Review & Game' section. Can you match the contractions?

Synonyms Song

Working on words that mean the same...

Synonyms!

Ask your child

to sing to you

their 'Synonym Song'

(to the tune of Hush Little Baby).

Spelling High-Frequency Words

We have been practicing reading in a 'snap' our high-frequency words (sight words - words recognized immediately by sight). Today, we again practiced spelling our high-frequency words with a practice quiz.