Throughout the year the students have been using the IPad app Hokusai to record themselves reading their weekly poems. We use poems in the c...

Throughout the year the students have been using the IPad app Hokusai to record themselves reading their weekly poems. We use poems in the c...

During our study of digraphs, the students were asked to bring in an object that started with /ch/, /sh/, /th/, or /wh/. The students brough...

We made cookies to assess the students' understanding of fiction and non-fiction with all of the first grade teachers team teaching. We ...

As a part of our fluency and phonics practice focusing in s-blends, the students learned the poem "Spinning Spiders" which we reco...

In reading we have been working on s-blends. We practiced identifying them in text by reading and singing "I'm a Little Teapot....

The students recorded their weekly poem "My Dog, Tag" on the class IPad. We learned this poem to practice the sounds for short /a/...

Click here to listen to the students read one of their weekly poems "My Cat." The students learned this poem as we studied the so...

To listen to the students reading one of their weekly poems, "I Like Jam", click here . They love recording their poems each week ...

Each week the students learn one or two new poems. The poems are typically based on our phonics focus of the week. At the end of the week, t...

One of my favorite phonics apps is Phonics Genius. The app has flash cards of short vowels, long vowels, blends, and digraphs. You have the ...

Our class is blessed to have a student teacher for the next month or so, Ms. Willemin. She will be gradually taking over teaching lessons on...

One of the many ways we practice our weekly word wall and phonics words is through the lessons and games on SpellingCity . The students love...

In reading we are working on making connections and the phonics sounds for /ch/, /sh/, /wh/, and /th/. To help the students make connections...

To help the students learn about the purpose of informational versus entertainment texts and to make a real world connection to the digraph ...

Last week we were studying various sounds including /sl/, /sp/, and /st/. We also were having "college week" in our district. So, ...

To help your child practice digraphs at home, visit the reading website Starfall . They can practice the /sh/ sound at the beginning and end...

Over the last several weeks our word work has been based on the digraphs /sh/, /ch/, /th/, and /wh/. We have sorted words beginning with the...