First Week of School Reading and Writing!

It seems like the first week of school flew by so fast! There was a LOT of stuff going on this first week. We colored and drew pictures, cut and matched pictures, played games, talked with friends, painted, put our names in order and practiced writing and tracing our names.

On the carpet, we talked with each other about our favorite part of the day, what we did over the summer, and what our favorite rotation class is during morning buzz book. 

Drawing the cover to his all about me books

Coloring pictures to match after they cut them out

Matching pictures they cut out at a different table

Cutting out pictures to match at the next table

Drawing the cover to his all about me book

Drawing her cover for her all about me book

Playing rhyme concentration

Playing rhyme concentration

Playing rhyme concentration

Playing rhyme concentration

Tracing names

Tracing Names

Drawing their families for their all about me books

Drawing their favorite foods for their all about me books

Painting Elmers after reading Elmer by David McKee

Painting Elmers

Coloring their favorite colors for their all about me books

Coloring her favorite color for her all about me book

Looking for the letters to their names in the alphabet cereal

Gluing down the letters in her name after finding them in the alphabet cereal

Gluing down the letters in her name after finding them in the alphabet cereal

Reading and Writing Stations

Every afternoon, the kids have four different reading and writing stations that they rotate to and each day is different. By the end of the week, they have gone to 20 different stations! As soon as we get back in to the classroom from recess (and get our water and bathroom breaks out of the way) we start our alphabet song, and I let the kids pick a letter song they want to do until we start the alphabet. Then, we head over to the carpet for Buzz Book.

Buzz book is 2 sentences with different punctuation and the date, and a question that they answer either by writing it on our board or by talking with the people around them.

Tuesday's Buzz Book question was "How do you spell your name?" I let the kids go up to the board, as long as there was room, and write their names on the board. We talked about the importance of using a capital letter for the beginning of our names and lowercase letters for the rest of our names.

 

They have been doing a really good job finding all of our capital letters and different punctuation in our Buzz Book sentences.

Here are some other things the kids worked on this week.

The kids made pictures of their Grandparents for us to hang on our Grandparent's Day wall.

Cutting out letters and numbers to sort

Practicing tracing the alphabet

Practicing tracing straight, zig-zag and curvy lines

Finding the beginning of our second sentence

Finding the end of our second sentence

Finding a capital letter in one of our sentences

Finding a capital letter in one of our sentences

Matching rhyming words on our magnetic board

Cutting out letters and words to sort

Painting for our bookmarks!

Everyone worked so hard this week and are doing such an awesome job! I'm proud of you guys! :)