Five For Friday *Last Week Of School*

I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 random things about my week.

1.  Our last day of school was on Tuesday.   I read these cute books to my kiddos.

 

Hooray for You is one of my favorites.  It talks about how unique each person is when they are born.  It lead perfectly into our classroom awards ceremony.  I told them that they were all unique and that they would be getting an award that was unique to them.  They loved trying to figure out who was going to receive each award when I said the title.

 

End of the Year: Classroom Awards

 

2.  On the last day of school two of my little sweet first graders sang me a song. With permission from their parents I am posting it here.

It was sweet and I had lots of tears.  I am so proud of all my kiddos this year and the gains that they made.

 

3.  On the first day of summer break my boys and I go to Ihop.  We have been doing it for years.  We have breakfast and then come home and be lazy.  We usually don't leave the house for a couple of days...just because we love staying in our pj's.  Why go anywhere when you don't have to?

 My son Riley will be a 6th grader next year.  It was sad because he will no longer be in the same building as me.  Aiden will be in 4th grade.  They are growing fast and I am wishing I could stop time.

Every year I order the fruit crepe with cream cheese in the middle.  This is the only time we go here and I LOVE it!

 

4.  I added a new resource to my TPT store.  Before doing my guided reading groups next year, we will be working on Fluency Phrases.  Each guided reading level has 10 phrases.  This will hopefully help them become more fluent readers and they will remember their sight words better.

Fluency-Phrases-Guided-Reading-Levels-D-R

 

5.  I finally created a Facebook page for my blog.  You can find it here.  First Grade Funtastic.

 

That's about it for my week. I hope you are all having a great one! :)

Sara

Fluency Phrases: Guided Reading Levels D-R

Hi!  I am so excited to say that today was officially my last day of teaching for this school year!  I will miss my first graders so much.  My class got along so well with one another and were so sweet.  I tried to stay strong and not shed any tears, but after two of my first graders wrote a song to the Cups song by Anna Kendrick (they made their own lyrics up to the song), I lost it..  They said they were going to miss me when they were gone.  It was so cute.  I read some stories about moving on and gave them a chance to say good-bye to their friends and give hugs.  Right away I had several students start to cry and say they didn't want to leave our class.  By the time we were lined up there were probably 7 or 8 kids crying. I felt so bad for them.  But, like I said, this class cared about each other and helped each other out.  I will miss them.

I cleaned up my room today and started to prepare for next year.  Next year I will be doing fluency phrases with our sight words.  Research says that repeated practice of reading sight words in phrases will help readers memorize their sight words and become more fluent.  I took the sight words and phrases that we will be using next year and typed them onto cards.  I laminated and cut out all the words and assembled them on rings.  Next year when I do my guided reading groups, I will put out the rings with the leveled words that they are on.  We will practice the words on the 10 cards.   When they move up to the next level, we practice the next group of words.  Each level has a different background of paper.  There are fluency cards for each reading level...levels D-R.

You can find them here. Fluency-Phrases-Guided-Reading-Levels-D-R.  I am so excited to be starting my summer knowing that I am a little bit more prepared for next year.  I hope you are having a great week.
Sara