Each student in our class is creating a newspaper featuring stories about his or her life. The talents of this class are varied as well as impressive. They excel in fields as varied as music, sports, business, and leadership. In Spelling this year, we are learning to spell our words based on the phonics strategies used in the Wilson Program.
Students take charge of the class, calling on classmates to identify each sound in a word.
Then they color-code vowels, consonants, blends, and silent letters on index cards, cut them apart and spell the words according to sounds. As, a reward, I brought in my very cute Bichon Frise, Sugar.