Making my LITTLE writers WRITE!

Write, Write, Write

This summer I was honored to attend the SDE conference in Chicago, IL. While at the conference I attended two writing courses that really INSPIRED me to put more effort into my writing instruction!

This year I will have 2-3 days each week where we will focus on writing instruction. 

This is an activity I did with my class early on. We looked through magazines, found a picture we liked, glued the magazine picture in our journals, and wrote our sentences!

This was the example I gave the class to model their expectations!

Check out what my AWESOME firsties did!

I was SUPER impressed!

Learning Our Centers!

Learning our Centers...

This year I decided to jump right in and start my Literacy Centers at the very beginning of the school year! 

** Look back at my previous Literacy Centers posts for detailed info. on how my Literacy Centers work and how I manage them.

So far my FIRSTIES love our CENTERS ....

AND SO DO I!!

Love having the time to meet with small groups in my classroom so that I am better able to meet my students' needs!

This is my Computer Center! This year I am allowing my students the choice of using Teach Your Monster To Read program, or taking AR tests while at the computer! AR is a new adventure for me this year ... but so far my kids are loving it!

Library Center

Listening Center

Magnetic Center

Partner Read

Writing Center

Word Work

Poppin' Adjectives!

Poppin' Adjectives!

We were introduced to Adjectives this week! 

I started my lesson by asking my firsties to describe ME!

(This is very risky because firsties have the tendency to be very honest at times)

I was pretty pleased with our Adjective Web!

Then I had my students describe a gift bag with their groups. (not pictured) I told them the groups that could use good adjectives to describe our gift .... would get what was inside the gift bag! Of course all the groups did WONDERFUL!

So they each got ....

They got to eat the candy and then complete a sheet listing adjectives that described their candy! Here are some images of them enjoying their "Adjective" treat!