Spelling Activities

Each week the fourth graders get a list of 25 spelling words. These words go along with our stories that we read through the Treasure's Reading Program.  On Monday's, Miss gives the students a pretest to introduce the words.  We then check our words and write each one we misspelled three times each and do a worksheet over the words.  On Tuesday and Wednesday's, we review our words and do word sorts and talk about their meanings.  On Thursday's, we review our words by doing a fun spelling review game,  such as "Sparkle",  or Miss Firley will bring in shaving cream for us to spell our words in.  Each night we practice our spelling words at home with our parents.  Miss Firley sent home a "Spelling Homework" sheet that gives us twelve activities to choose from.  On Friday's we do a quick review then take our test.  We love doing these activities and do very well on our test on Friday.

We also have a Spelling Center that we can do throughout the week to help us practice our spelling words.

Using shaving cream is always a fun way to practice our spelling words and it also helps clean off our messy desks.

First day of school activities

During our first few days of school we did several activities to get to know each other and our new teacher, Miss Firley.  Some of the activities we did were talk about the type of teacher we expect each day.  We also talked about what each of us need to do in order to be successful this year.

Here are the six questions Miss Firley had us answer on the first day of school.

It's always exciting to see what kind of teacher we want!