Partner Reading and Writers' Workshop

Students have been working hard to learn the first set of our "popcorn" words (I, am, play, like, is, my, Here, here). Today we practiced reading with a partner.   (See first 5 pictures above.)  Partners sit "eekk" (elbow to elbow and knee to knee) and one person uses a small pointer to read while the other listens carefully and helps if necessary. Your child is bringing home a sheet with sentences called "I Can Read". Please listen to them read these sentences and words several times to develop fluency and quick recognition of these sight words.

We also began our Writers' Workshop today! The boys and girls were really excited to share their story ideas by writing "picture stories". We learned how we can tell a story by drawing a picture with lots of detail. Some students were able to label their pictures with letters and words, some wrote sentences and some just drew pictures. The pictures below show students hard at work!

**Remember to tell your child to tell me in the morning if you read this blog! Tomorrow is trading day for our Fuzzies and I'm hoping that lots of students will have 10 fuzzies to trade for a coupon!