February Reading Logs and Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe

Can you believe it is almost February?

In preparation for the upcoming month I recently updated a few of my homework packet pages... Now I am ready for Monday.

My 1st graders do such a great job on their weekly reading logs and they are really enjoying these new tic-tac-toe spelling activities.

You can grab your own copy of these below.

February Reading Logs
February Spelling Tic-Tac-Toe

Enjoy!

OU and OW Word Work

This week my students will be introduced to the spelling patterns /ow/ and /ou/ as we head into Unit 7 of our Reading and Language Arts program.


Each day we do one or more word work activities related to the weekly spelling pattern(s). Most, if not all of the word work activities we will cover this week are from my "Out and Around with Little Brown Mouse" pack which is available in my TPT store. The word cards from the packet will be used for Move it Monday, Trade It Tuesday, and Walk and Write Wednesday. Click HERE to grab the word cards for FREE.

We will also be busy with 100's Day activities this Thursday and Groundhog's Day and Chinese New Year fun on Friday. It is going to be a jam-packed week. I can hardly wait!

"How To" Instructional Writing

My 1st grade CREW are currently working on writing "How To" instructional paragraphs using the transitions First, Next, Then, and Finally. Of course these are sandwiched between and introductory and closing sentence to complete a six or more sentence paragraph.

FIRST, we began with the ever popular: "How to Build a Snowman" - which we finished up last week.

Here's a sample from one of my youngest students.

NEXT, we wrote "How to Make a Sandwich" paragraphs.

THEN, it was on to "How to Play___________  (basketball, checkers, four corners, Old Maid, etc).

FINALLY, we will write a "How to Get Ready for Bed" paragraph that will be used as our unit assessment.

To help my students through the writing process and publish attractive pieces, I created the templates shown here.

Click on each picture to grab a copy for yourself.

Word Work for OO

This week we will focus on words with the oo spelling. Here is one of the mini-word work packets I created to work with this spelling pattern. Just click on the graphic to grab your FREE copy.

(Imagine It! friends -  this is for Unit 6.11-6.15)

The Streganona-themed packet, with even more oo word work activities is available in my TPT store.

Also...For those of you who tried to download yesterday's post... It is now fixed. I simply forgot to "SHARE" the file in my Google Docs.

Thanks for letting me know about the download issue!

Have a great weekend!

We're Over the Moon for Long U

That's Right!

We're Over the Moon for Long U.

Here's a copy of  my word work activities for this week.

For my Imagine It friends - that's Unit 6.6-6.10.
Grab your copy HERE.

MLK Word Bank and Writing Paper

I just finished updating my MLK writing paper and word bank mini-pack. I will be using this along with some other fabulous resources I purchased from TPT authors: A Year of Many Firsts, Curriculum Castle, Jessica Peterson, Fishyrobb, and Teacher to the Core.

Click HERE to grab this FREEBIE.

 Here is sample from one of my students:

One Paragraph Retell

Now that my students have tackled the task of locating answers and responding in writing to questions about the text we have read ... I am teaching them how to develop a one paragraph retelling.

I developed this form to help scaffold them through the process.

Here is a completed student sample:

I can hardly wait to see the progress they will make over the next few weeks.

Click on the image of the template to download the form.