In our classroom we have word banks with words that the students learned in Kindergarten. These are words we often see pop up in books so we refer to them as "PopCorn Words"and use them often in our writing. We know these words "quick as lightning"!
Our Lightning Words: a, all, am, and, are, at, be, by, can, dad, do, for, go, get, had, has, have, he ,his, her, here, him, I, in, is, if, it, like, look, me, my, mom, no, of, on, one, play, ran, say, said, saw, see, stop, she, that, the, they, this, to, up, was, we, went, what, when, where, will, with, yes, you.
Our class members are word detectives! We investigate several words each week. We will notice long and short vowels, chunks, blends, mini words, and word families. Each week these words are added to our Classroom Word Wall. Get ready to watch our reading and writing word knowledge GROW!
Week 1: if, on, got
Week 2: play, run, and
Week 3: jump, like, you
Week 4: do, his, love
Week 5: in, ran, did
Week 6: not, she, so
Week 7:what, be, it
Week 8: let, saw, of
Week 9: but, come, that
Week 10: will, he, him
Week 11: look, said, fun
Week 12: get, her, was
Week 13: with, are, as
Week 14: for, has, stop
Week 15: by, have, hers
Week 16: they, say, big
Week 17: day, here, this
Week 18: us, came, from
Week 19: had, make, just
Week 20: one, some, take
Week 21: does, put, then
Week 22: went, all, don't
Week 23: must, there, down, find
Week 24: how, good, help, I'm
Week 25: read, who, away, first
Week 26: made, our, again, their
Week 27: well, your, about, give
Week 28: want, were, know, little
Week 29: out, when, after, any
Week 30: could, very, ask, friend
Week 31: now, over, today, ever
Week 32: once, ssoon, time, where
Week 33: because, new, say, school
