Language

 

As a large group, we review the jolly phonic sounds we have learned so far. This activity is very short and takes about two minutes. A volunteer comes to the front of the class, tells the class the letter and then does the sound and the action. The children love this activity because they feel they are the teacher.

 

This week the children will be introduced to the "p" sound. Each day I stretch out sounds of simple three or four letter words and ask the children to attempt to tell me the word I have made. This strategy (known as phoneme segmentation) assists the children to understand that words are made up of sounds and readers put the sounds together to figure out words.

 

You can assist your children in this area by stretching out the sounds of some of the following words and asking your child to state the word. I am including a few of the simple words we will be working on this week:   pig, pan, pot, pat, pet, pit, pen,pop, peg, pup. At this time, the main focus in on the short vowel sounds.

 

Another focus in the language area will be working on "rhyming words". Students who are phonemically aware are able to identify and form rhyming words. Example: Do these words rhyme? fun-fan,  pig-wig, cheer-year, bread-seed.

 

The By Heart word for this word is "am" and the colour word "blue".