Students loved using instruments to study each other’s names by tapping out the syllables! TCRWP Lisa Hourigan West School

Ms. McGahan & Rasheed are always ready for West Spirit Day! #HEARTofWest #ProudtoBeLB ⁦Nicole McGahan⁩ ⁦TCRWP⁩ ⁦Lisa Hourigan⁩ ⁦@LorraineRadice1⁩

We had the BEST time as Gus and the kids LOVED it too! 🥰 West School

First graders are OFFICIALLY word detectives 🕵️‍♀️ 🕵️‍♂️ The S.S.D.A sent us our official word detective badges today for all our hard work! We can’t wait to continue using our detective skills as we read and write! West School TCRWP @LorraineRadice1

Learning is so contagious at West that the Principal and Assistant Principal have been working very hard to earn their word detective badges! First graders surprised Ms. Dirolf and Ms. Kugelman with a gift from the SSDA today! #HEARTofWest TCRWP @LorraineRadice1 Lisa Hourigan

Super Reader sent the kindergarteners a special package with capes and masks to celebrate them using all of the super powers to become Super Readers!!🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏼West School Ms.Way @LorraineRadice1 Lisa Hourigan TCRWP #SuperPowers #ITeachK #HeartofWest #ProudtobeLB LongBeachSchools

Today we CELEBRATED our Phonics unit on Tackling Multisyllabic Words! We used multisyllabic words to write a letter to lawmakers to assure endangered animals are protected! We finished with a parade calling to action this special cause! West School

We did it! We learned strategies to tackle longer words and longer books! What better way to CELEBRATE than to share our learning with First Graders and give them some special reading advice?! 🥳🤓 West School

Hard at work in our word-part unit! West School Lisa Hourigan

Vibrant VERBS! Today we learned what a verb is and we found sparkly verbs in our books and shared them with our friends. We even acted some verbs out! West School 🏃🏻🏃🏾‍♀️

Today our Super Readers completed our Secret Mission of showing off our super powers to our Pre-K students! 🦸🏼‍♂️🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏼Ms.Way Tara Kelly West School TCRWP Lisa Hourigan #HeartofWest #ProudtobeLB #TCRWP #SuperReaders #ITeachK

Funniest Book Award😂…Best Friends Award👯‍♀️…we loved sharing our Book Nominations with each other to finish our unit on Writing about Reading! 🥇✏️ West School

Let’s CELEBRATE our Word Builders Phonics Unit! 🎉 We made commercials for the BLC (Bigger, Longer, Complex) Construction and Demolition Company to highlight our word-building and demolition knowledge! 🔨👷🏾‍♀️👷🏼‍♂️ West School

First graders went to two different local pizzerias to do research and write reviews! Watch some of their reviews: m.youtube.com/watch?v=KAr7EW… and drive.google.com/file/d/1wCSEpn… @TCRWP Lisa Hourigan @LorraineRadice1 #HEARTofWest

We LOVE talking about our books in Book Clubs! West School

Today first graders delivered their amazing read aloud books, that they recorded, to our Kindergarten classes. Readers worked so hard being the boss of their reading and adding expression to their reading! 📚 @LorraineRadice1 West School I hope our K classes love our reading

We are Word Collectors! Today we are collecting and learning compound words and writing stories with them! West School

We are so excited to collect more words for our Word Collector journals!!! We are cutting up compound words and creating NEW compound words! West School

We loved celebrating our final Insect books with our 5th grade Heart Huddles buddies!!! 🐜 🐞🥰 West School