Very Busy First Graders

Last week we read  The Busy Little Spider by Eric Carle 

We LOVED it.  We made spiders to hang on our door and wrote about what we are busy doing in first grade!  Here are some of our finished products: 

I love this one! I'm busy trying to listen to my teacher! 

We are very busy in first grade doing AR, Math, becoming good readers, being artists, working on stories and much more. 

Becoming Good Readers!

Fluent Readers read at the same rate that they speak.  As your reader grows, you will notice that they move from reading one...word...at......a.......time to reading groups of words or phrases. 

For example: Look......at......the.....big.....round.......moon.

Becomes: Look at.... the big... round moon.

One great way to develop fluency is to practice sight words in phrases.  Here is a list of sight word phrases that you can practice with your children. 

he had to	on a
she said that	for his
to the	of what
but she said	that was in
but they said	it was
they had to	I was on
it was for	you and I
for you	he had to