Final Small Moment Stories and Celebration

We have been working hard on our small moment personal narratives.  With our writing partner we worked on revising and editing our writing.  Some of us even chose to act out our stories in order to make sure we had enough details in our writing. 

 

Once our writing was the best it could be, we published our stories by adding a cover and color to the illustrations!  Sitting in the authors chair was a special moment as we shared our stories with the class.  Your first grader was also very excited to pick an adult in the building to give a copy of their story to.  The other copy is hanging in the hallways for anyone to read and then it will be sent home with it's author! 

 

Keep up the great work authors!  Our next unit will be non-fiction.  Your child will get a chance to teach me about something they are expert on! 

1st Grade Authors

We have been working hard during writers workshop!  Check our some of our wonderful stories!  We have been working on our writing stamina, telling a small moment story, making our stories come to life (dialogue, movement, feelings and thoughts) and being brave spellers!  George McClements has been teaching us many different craft moves that we have tried in our own writing!  Be on the look out for pop out words, ellipses, and exact actions!

The next few weeks, we will continue to make our stories come to life by adding more details as well as beginning to edit our stories and check for correct punctuation, capitalization and making sure our word walls words are spelled correctly.  All of your child's small moment stories will come home at the end of our unit!  Stop by the hallway outside our room to see even more stories on display!

 

Reading and Writing Anchor Charts

These are the charts your child has helped create in class.  Please feel free to refer to these charts as your child is reading and writing at home!

 

 

While we focus on picking out just right books, developing a love for books is important and sometimes that means your child might want to read a book that is to hard for him/her at the moment.  Instead of saying "no, you can't read that," we have talked about different ways to read a book where the words might be too difficult.  You can tell a story through the pictures, you can read the words or look for words you know and/or you can retell the story if it was one that you have heard before. 

 

Our word attack strategies!  Look for a copy of this coming home in your child's take home folder soon!  If your child comes to  tricky word while they are reading, please encourage them to try these strategies first before you tell them the word.

 

Writing Anchor Charts: We are working on being brave writers and trying to add more details to our stories and learning different ways to spell words so our readers can read our stories!