Today I'd like to share some new activities for the Daily Five
Work on Writing & Word Work. I taught first grade last year and looped to second grade with the same kids and wanted to change up some of my Daily Five activities. These activities are NOT the only writing or word work activities we do each day. I have a 60 minute Writer's Workshop and a 30 minute Word Work block in the morning. My Daily Five takes place in the afternoon every day of the week EXCEPT Wednesday.
Here are my Work on Writing activities:
On Mondays, students write about their weekend. I ask them to pick one thing and write about it.
On Tuesdays, students write a letter to our Student of the Week. I collect all the letters and put them together in book form and give it to the Student of the Week to keep. 
On Thursdays, students write in their Science Journals. I have an object for them to observe that goes along with our theme. They draw the object and write about it.
On Fridays, students can go to our Writing Center and choose an activity there.
Here's how I store the Work on Writing materials:
Here are my Word Work activities:
On Mondays, students play a game called Roll & Write.
They roll a die, find the word for the number they rolled and write it. The goal is to roll and write until one of the columns is filled. That word "Blasts Off." You continue to roll and write until all the words "Blast Off."
If you don't like the idea of kids rolling dice on their desks and making lots of noise, you can cut pieces of rubber shelf liner for them to roll on.
On Tuesdays, students write their words with scented markers. I use Mr. Sketch scented markers. Walgreens had them on sale for $5.00 a box in August!! I store each set of markers in a Lock & Lock container. I got them on QVC.
On Thursdays, students use magnetic letters to build words.
I bought some heavy duty cookie sheets for this center. I put the letters they need at the top and they build the words at the bottom. I used a Sharpie to divide the two areas. I include a list of words on the cookie sheet.
On Fridays, students work in their Vocabulary Journals. They pick 2 words from our vocabulary word list for the week. They write them, use them in a sentence, and then illustrate.
My students love all of these activities. I plan to change them up as the year goes on. I'll share some more in future posts.
