Write the Room and Shaving Cream

A new activity has been added to the writing/journal station. A couple of days a week the groups will get to write the room. Each student has a clipboard and they have to walk around to the numbered pictures and fill in their page. The awesome part of write the room is how easy it is to differentiate. For students working on CVC words, they fill in the vowel. Some students are writing the entire word. Others have to write it in a sentence. It’s so captivating for them and they love having the freedom of being in the commons to work.

Shaving cream plus sight words equal very excited first graders! The station that focuses on sight and spelling words was switched around on Thursday. Typically the children scribble write, build, rainbow write, or practice flashcards with a partner while in the sight/spelling word station. On Thursday they used shaving cream to write their words - and they loved it! Using shaving cream is such a fun tool to use to help meet those tactile needs that students have. Learning while using multiple senses is cognitively beneficial. The sight words are growing in difficulty and giving the students a new way to practice is just what they needed. Each group had so much fun and handled the change in the routine so well.

Mrs. Gordon