Holiday CRAZY'S!!!!

Well, this week wound up be CRAZY with all of the Valentines activities. In addition to this, my principal has made some new schedule changes thus changing my daily schedule and small group times. While I did not get to introduce the sight words the way I had intended to this week, four sight words a week, I did get to review all thirty one with the students in my class in whole group settings. Some of the strategies I used in reviewing these words were sight word hunts, sight word games, and sight word writing. I have also begun a new routine where my students help me to write our morning message every morning. With this, they not only have to dictate the text for me to write but they also have to spell out the words for me to write. My routine that I have had for the year in my morning message is filled with our sight words and, as anticipated, my students kept up this routine all on their own. This routine has allowed me to review the sight words with the students and their spelling in an easy manner. I plan on kicking my planned research methods into gear this week as my students and I settle into our new schedule.