Monday Spelling Prep!

It's Saturday and you know what? I'm ready to rush the weekend! My children are off at a sleep over and I wish they were here with me. I finally get that peace & quiet that I desire and yet here I am complaining. How sad! Anyway, today I wanted to share how Roman prepares for his First Grade Spelling Tests!

On Monday, I hand him a typed up list and we read it together. After that we write the flashcards together while saying and spelling the words. Once we have finished that I hand him some stickers and he moves to the reading bench alone. Once he can read a word, he puts a sticker on it. If he can spell the word, he adds a second sticker to it.

On Tuesday, he takes his list words and uses water to 'paint' them on the wall as he searches for each letter and spells the words. This is a fun game that he gets to play as he learns. More information on this HERE!

Wednesday brings Barrel of Monkeys time! He takes his flashcards and our barrel of monkeys and works on spelling each word out. Once it is spelled, he takes our classroom camera (an old digital phone) and photographs his words. This allows him to work alone and me to grade his progress later.

Monday-Wednesday he has to write out each spelling word 5 times. I made the 3 columns right on the back of each flashcard, which makes it easy to keep in 1 place and for him to study as well.

On Thursday he takes the quiz in his notebook and any that he gets wrong, he must rewrite on a new page and copy them 5 times. Friday is TEST day & by this day he is usually more than ready! If he does get any wrong, he just writes it 3 times, to reinforce the word.

Enjoy your week my friends!

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Wordless Wednesday

Enjoying the time together

Reading with BOB books and making Flashcards

Autumn is teaching the class how to sew!

Kids getting out of hand with their bickering? Give them a challenge to do TOGETHER!

Creating our own coloring pages that also make awesome wrapping paper!

Enjoy your beautiful life, every single minute of it!

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Shark Time!

Happy Friday my friends, I love this day of the week more than anything. It's always the promise of something exciting. We studied sharks this past week in school and had some fun doing it.

We took some time to read about different sharks and see if we could guess which ones were what. I like to keep books on hot topics in shelf bins so that they can all be removed at once.

Building a large model of a shark was so much fun! Over the Summer, we built it once before, so that the kids would figure out how to do it on their own and get a rough idea for it. Now they were able to do it together and they learned as they were building it!

What better way to end the day, then a movie on sharks, courtesy of NETFLIX! What fun it was to learn about something that truly excites us!

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We Love to Read!

I love stocking up our library for kids in the house, I keep 2 large bookshelves in the living room full of books and then each child has 2 bookshelves in their room full of more books, needless to say we have a LOT of books! I was in search of a fun age appropriate list of books to plump up their shelves for Summer reading, when I googled Summer book list, and came across a plethora of good things!! I printed one out and stocked up to round out the list and now the kids have gotten into Summer reading with great gusto! They first think of it as a scavenger hunt when looking for a certain book and then we set off to  read it in a new and fun place, whether we take it with us to the park, grandpa's or the beach or just in a new room at home! The kids love being able to cross books off of their list, that sometimes they want to keep reading all day long! We are having a blast reading our way through these lists!

As I mentioned before, we also fill out a book report (Just 1 per book for all of us) about each and every book we read, so that I can be sure they are really absorbing the information and not just racing through to read every book on the list and be done with it. I've saved every filled out report and am putting it into a binder that will be great to pass on to my grandchildren with reviews on books their parents loved! I have put each page into a page protector to keep it safe and preserved.

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