Spelling City

Here is the classroom link to Spelling City, which will take you directly to the classroom community page. This link will also be posted on the left sidebar of the class wikispace. Have fun practicing your spelling words!
Spelling City

Parent Conferences

What a busy week we've had! Thanks to all of the parents for taking the time to meet during parent conferences this week. Your continued support of your child's learning provides for a successful year in first grade. :)

Here is a quick recap of what we've been up to in B-7...

• We sent out our class book to be published. We are very excited to become published authors. Our book title is "Don't Eat Me..."
• We have began blogging with our 1st Grade pen-pals from Morning Sun Elementary in Iowa. Check out the posts on our KidBlog.
• Morpheus Fortuna, a traveling turtle that visits classrooms across the state is due to arrive tomorrow.

Yikes!

Yikes! It's Wednesday already! This week certainly has gotten away from me. I apologize for the delay in the Spelling word post on the website and the SpellingCity site, which you can access here.

We've had a busy week in B-7. We began Unit 2 in reading this week. The theme of this unit is Communities. Some of the skills we will be learning include:

• sh/th
  
• long vowels
• ch/wh
• endings (ed, ing)
• contractions
  

The students were excited to get their second book to bring home this evening. Please read the story A Big Fish for Max. Have your child read the story for fluency. Reading fluently is reading in which words are recognized automatically. We call it "smooth sailing" in B-7. We don't want "choppy waters!" :) If your child is reading fluently, he/she will be able to read through the story without stopping to sound out words.

We've also been working on our Published Books this week. As a class, we decided on a turkey theme. The students are very excited to become published authors, and have taken such pride in their writing and illustrations for book.