We hit the classroom floor running at the beginning of the school year to help our students master their letter sounds. One of our favorite year long activities (No, that's not a typo...This lasts pretty much the entire school year for our class) for practicing our phonics skills is My Letter Sound Dictionary. We recently pulled it out to prep for the coming school year and noticed it needed a major metamorphosis. We are so excited about what emerged! This unit got a major overhaul. The ... VIEW POST
Student Dictionaries ~ Phonics Printables
Interactive Phonics Readers ~ R-Controlled Vowels + a Book Bag Freebie
We are so excited that our class is reading up a storm! We're diving into those R-controlled vowels this week and we've just finished up our latest set of Interactive Phonics Readers to help our first graders out. They just can't get enough of these little books, and now that we've made our way through the short vowels, long vowels and digraph sets, they are Interactive Phonics Pros right about now. True story... We asked a parent volunteer to run this station the other day. About halfway ... VIEW POST
Interactive Phonics Readers ~ Update
Teaching kids to read is one of our absolute favorite things to do each school day. We love the journey from beginning to end, and all of the bumps in between. One of those bumps is mastering phonics skills for some... So, what else are we teachers to do but meet their needs. Right? Our class has been doing an incredible job with our Interactive Phonics Readers these past few weeks. These hands-on little books have been giving our developing readers the support they still ... VIEW POST
Long Vowel Learning, Plus a Super Sunday Sale!
This is the time of year when we separate the men from the boys...The cream from the coffee...The Broncos from the Seahawks... Yep, it's that time of year...Long Vowel Learning time. Everything they thought they knew about vowels up until now has just been sacked by their Quarterbacks...That's us. We feel kind of bad, but if they don't get off the bench quick, we're likely to pull a penalty flag and send them back to the 40 yard line guided reading table. Fortunately for our team, ... VIEW POST
Fall into First Grade: Common Core Math & Literacy Activities for the Season
Happy Almost Fall Y'All! Can you believe it? We are knee neck deep in first grade and the days are flying by faster than we can count to 100...or 26 for one of us, but we will be pulling that friend aside for a little one on one assistance ASAP! We are working hard to learn all of our procedures in class, and are trying ever so diligently to get our "Workshop" going as well. You might know this time as Centers, Small Groups, Guided Reading Time ~ Basically that time when us teachers need ... VIEW POST
Teacher Week-Must Haves Monday Linky
Hi All! We've been a bit MIA this past week with last minute summer squeak-in-vacations and trying to get our room set up. We are redoing E.V.E.R.Y bulletin board and our color scheme as well. It sounded great in theory and don't get us wrong, we DO love it, there are just not enough hours in the day to squeeze it all in. Pictures to follow when we finally get it finished. . . We have found some time however, to link up with the fabulous ladies over at Blog Hoppin' for a little week long link ... VIEW POST
