A celebration was in order...We finished our first unit in Writer's Workshop- small moment writing. The students worked so hard during this unit. They developed the stamina for independent writing for 30-40 minutes and Bringing their Stories to life!  While they worked independently, I went around and held mini conferences with the students. My main teaching points during these conferences were ways to make characters talk, move, think and feel and using proper spacing between words, no mixing capitals and lower case letters, and using the word wall to spell snap words correctly. 

For our Writers' Celebration today they shared their book with another first grader. The students enjoyed reading to a buddy and giving each other compliments. They all worked so hard and will be very excited for you to read their stories (at conferences). 

Ryan is in the Spotlight this week. We loved his trains at Show -n -Tell today! He would like everyone to try to wear green and white tomorrow.