Monday: Spelling Words With the Long "A" Sound

I learned today that we have a very talented writer in our class. 

Today we worked on spelling words, in the past I have allowed the students to choose their own spelling words. When the trainees choose their own spelling words about two-thirds of the class choose appropriate spelling words and the other one-third choose words they already know. Because of some of the trainees' choices to give themselves easy work I have gone back to assigning spelling words. Currently the our spelling lesson in the class is tiered and divided into two groups. One group focuses on sight words and phonemic patterns and the second group focuses on words which can be figured from context. 

In the first group the trainees studied the first six months of the year: January, February, March, April, May, June; and they studied words with the long "a" sound in them. As a final assignment I asked the students to use 6 words which have the long "a" sound in them and write a poem. One student wrote a particularly good poem and he has given me permission to share it with you all...

Ke'Dren and I went to buy a picture frame.

Then we ate pizza,they were all the same

but later on that day we saw Waka Flocka Flame

then we listen to his music, we think "Wow, that was lame"

-B.H.

I added the punctuation, but the sentences are all a B.H. original and I am beyond impressed by his usage of the long "-ame" sound! This trainee loves to listen to rap and R&B and it is clear that he draws his creativity by following the same rhythm in his poem.