Language Arts

We apologize for the lack of photos in the current blog. We'll try to get the camera out more often in the next month. Some of these photos are from the first month of school or show the same activity many times.

Children continue to learn new sounds in Jolly Phonics and are writing new letters in Handwriting without Tears. We are learning sight words as we read pre-decodable stories, reading them and learning to write them. So far the words are a, my, the, I, like, we and go. We practice sounding out words and spelling words using boards with magnetic letters (depicted). Children keep copies of the words they have learned in their word envelope and play concentration games matching the sight words.

We have different activities to promote phonemic awareness (hearing the sounds in words). Thumbs up if these words start with the same sound! Stamp two words that have the same sound in them (train and pen end in the same sound). Roll the ball as you say a word that rhymes with bees!

We recently visited 2nd grade to watch a play they wrote about a pumpkin patch. The children learned that the "different looking" pumpkin was just fine and in fact won the prize. We also used the Smart Board for activities connected with The Very Hungry Caterpillar. There are several pictures of free time activities.