Word Walls

Classroom word walls serve an important purpose. They are a constant reference to the children for sight words. Obviously, every word can't be added to the word wall. The word wall is saved for high-priority sight words. They are those words that we want kids to know how to write quickly, "fluently". After the words are added to the wall, the kids are expected to spell them correctly, either by knowing them or looking to the wall for help. A word isn't added to the wall until we have done work with it during spelling time. At this point, we have very few words up. They are words that the kiddos worked on in Kindergarten.

Here's a homework challenge: Using these 4 word wall words: like, can, the, will, compose 4 sentences. Each sentence should contain one of the sight words. Remember.... each sentence must start with a capital, have finger spaces and include punctuation. Bring in the sentences to share with your classmates!!

 It was great meeting with so many of you at Open House. This is a great group of kids with a great group of parents, and I look forward to our year together!