Word Walls and Paper Clocks

We began our official Word Wall today. Each week about five or six words are added to our wall that we want children to learn and know in the same way they understand and relate to computer games! We'll play games with them each week, review them orally, and refer to them often during our Writing Workshop time. Today six words appeared including a, all, at, an, can and that. By years end our wall will contain 100 words that children can say and spell easily. They are included on the word rings and are indicated with a blue dot. They are also listed on the website so practice them often.
It was also a great day to continue our learning about clocks by making some paper ones of our own. After we cut and pasted our together we used a song by Hap Palmer called Paper Clocks to sing with and move our clock hands to the hour. Mrs. Leinbach also has a linked a math game on our website that reviews time to the hour as well. We shared it with the group and they caught on very quickly.
Despite the rain we all enjoyed our 35th day of the year quite nicely...and now the weekend awaits. Have a wonderful weekend and we'll be in touch...