One week is over and I am glad to see just about everybody has their supplies and everybody is ready to learn! We have learned many classroom routines from how to organize our crates to reading behaviors during Readers Workshop.
Today we started Spelling. Students took a pretest in their planners to help focus their studying through the week. They will have a Spelling test on Friday. They were to write in their planners "Ways to Study Spelling" from a chart we created together in class. Throughout the week students are to choose a way to study their Spelling words for the test Friday. The ways to study Spelling are as follows:
1. Write words 5 times each (or more if needed).
2. Write word triangles. Example: if the student needs to practice the word stamp they would write the word triangle like this-
s
st
sta
stam
stamp
3. Look, Say, Cover, Write, and Check. Students look at the word, say the word, cover the word, write the word on a separate piece of paper, and then check to see if they spelled the word correctly.
4. Have someone call the words out to you.
Homework reminders will be written on the board and the students have to copy them into their planners daily. Students will have homework nightly in my class. You should see some reminder written everyday from today on.
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