Impressive . . .

This was Molly's page that she brought home from school the other day. They did these papers during "centers", which is their own time to be creative with whatever is provided to them. They love stencils, so they particularly enjoyed this day of centers. As you can tell, the time is "self-guided" as they were forced to sound out the words as they wrote them, because there was no teacher stading over their shoulder to ask. I was very impressed by how well they sounded out each shape, as some of the sounds they haven't even covered yet during class. They are learning to read, and I just can't believe how much thier little brains have absorbed just this year!

Rayleigh's paper . . . I was particularly impressed with "moon" as we have not done the "oo" sound except for in one "star word - look". I also liked "ice cream" on each of thier papers and "star". "Clown" was also cute on Rayleigh's paper.