Word Wall Chant and Cheers

We like to stay active in first grade!  One way we do so is when we are learning our word wall words.  We have many different chants and cheers to help us master these words.  Our word wall leader of the week gets to choose the chant or cheer, then leads us through the words!

      Songs

3 letter words - Jingle Bells

4 letter words - Adams Family

5 letter words - Bingo

      Chants (some of our favorites)

Strike a pose

Pirate Words

Squeak like a mouse

Snap a word

Royal Highness

Here are some pics and a video of us practicing our word wall words. 

 

 

Sight Words - Star Words

In first grade we are working on being fluent when reading sight words.   There are so many ways to improve sight word fluency.  I dedicated an entire webpage for it.  Click here to go to my sight word page.  There you can find all different ways you can help you child become more fluent with their sight words.  Here is a game we played during the second week of school.  It's called Star words.  I had dice labeled with different sight words and students rolled the dice and colored in the word.  The first word to get to the top 'won'.  They loved it!   

Collect 20

One of the first games we played in math was called Collect 20.  We are practicing not only counting to 20, but also making sure that we do have exactly 20.  The second day we played this game we talked about ways to make sure that we had 20.  Some students suggested counting again, counting by 2's, putting them in groups of 5.  Then I gave them a 20 board, a board with exactly 20 boxes.  They thought it was so much easier to know when you had 20, they could also tell me how many more they needed to get to 20.  I LOVE playing games in math, it is such a hands on way of learning.