Center Time

I love my schedule this year. After our major "Reading" and "Math" blocks, I have some flex "Center Time" built in. Yesterday after our doing round-robin read-alouds about summer vacation, I had the students write a story about their summer vacations.

Many of their stories centered around going to the "Fair" or "Fairbanks" There was quite a bit of mis-spellings so I did a quick spelling lesson afterwards. We talked about how to spell the word "Fair" and how the word "Fairbanks" was the word "Fair" and "banks" smooshed together. Just like the word "Play" "Ground" I'll do a quick oral quiz again today randomly to make sure they remember.