Let The At Home Reading Begin!!

Yesterday was a BIG day in our class!  For the first time this year, the kids chose two books from their book boxes and brought them home to read with an adult. It was so exciting to see their face light up when they knew the books that had carefully shopped for during Reading Workshop got to go home with them for the night.  Today we worked on a chart for our classroom to remind them how to care the these important books at home.  Check it out!  Enjoy reading these books with your child!

Stories are like bubbles...if we catch them on paper, they will last forever!

Today we launched our first grade writers workshop by blowing bubbles, yes, blowing bubbles!  Each child got to catch blue bubbles on a special piece of writing paper that said "Stories are like bubbles...if we catch them on paper, they will last forever!"  It was so fun to see how this analogy really clicked with my first graders and perhaps gave them a deeper meaning for why writing is SO important.  I can't wait for them to start catching their words, sentences, and stories on paper.  WE ARE AUTHORS!!!!!

Look how carefully Trisha catches the bubbles...I hope this is the care she takes in catching her stories on paper all year long!