Window Crayon Fun!

Ok people, so I was walking around Hobby Lobby the other day (one of my ABSOLUTE favorite stores, might I add) and came across this great find:

Crayola Window Crayons! Why have I never seen these before? I had to pick these up for my classroom when I saw them. We used these window crayons a few days ago during our Imagination Station (where students use their imagination to become authors and illustrators) to reinforce words with the short i sound. I printed off some clip art pictures of words with the /i/ sound and placed them in a Ziploc bag. One by one, each student reached his/her hand in the bag and pulled out a picture. They were instructed to determine what the picture was, and attempt to spell the word on the window with a window crayon. This activity is similar to the Sound Muncher, but we completed it on a different day to continue to reinforce that /i/ sound. Parents, this would be SUCH a fun way to study at home for our spelling test each week! Here are some examples of /i/ words our students wrote with the window crayons:

Our students sure are SUPER spellers! I can tell they are truly thinking about how these words should be spelled. Check out "ship" in the picture above and "chin" in the picture below! We have not even covered the sh- and ch- spelling chunks yet and these students are already understanding the letters that make those two sounds! I'm also especially proud of the student who wrote the word "brick" below because we have been learning the /ck/ sound and this student knew that brick ended in those two letters! Keep up the FANTASTIC work, first graders!