Bat Writing

Last week we worked on bats.  Here are some of the pictures of our writing activity.

Students were given numbered envolopes and asked to use what they know to make the words into a sentence.  We talked about how we knew that a sentence started with a capital letter and ended with a punctuation mark.  They used that knowledge to find the first and last word of the sentence.  Then thay used the words that were left and put them in the correct order.

Once they figured out what the sentence was supposed to be, they glued it down.

Then they wrote the sentence on the line.

To finish our bat writing activity, we made bats.

Our finished product!

Project Updates

As promised, here are pictures of our ghost writing that we finished up this week.

I also wanted to show you some of the things I have been doing with the handwriting notebook that I made.  This is the result after the student worked with me.  I used a highlighter to help the student trace and fit the words in the proper spacing.  When I made the shapes, the student understood the spacing.

A little more practice with this student.  We circled our favorites.

In the next few weeks, I will be making monsters with the kids.  I found this idea on Pinterest and it was super easy to do.  The best part...

It can be used as a bookmark too!  How cute!?

Next week, we are talking about bats.  This is the project we are going to make when we are done with our writing activity.  It will hang with our ghosts in time for conferences!

Handwriting Notebook

This is a blank version of my handwriting notebook so that you can dot the letters and words that you want. For my younger kids, I do the letters and for my older kids, I do words and sentences. It is meant to adapt to how you want to use it. You can use it for print or cursive.   I forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but you can customize it however you want to.

Handwriting Freebie

Here is a free download for those of you who teach the younger grades.  I like this page for practicing handwriting.

I have more of these if you are interested.  This download is only the letter Aa.