Language

 

Some parents of the SK students are asking when their child will be bringing home little reading books to practice. I know there are about four or five SK students who are showing a readiness in the area of reading and I will probably start sending home little readers for them after the PA day.

 

I do not want the students to read by memorizing the words. I want them to be able to blend sounds together to determine the word, rather than memorizing. The only words I want the students to memorize are the By Heart Words. I hope parents are having their SK children practise these words, since these are the words they will most frequently find in the early readers and when they are writing. I thank the parents for assisting their child in this area of their learning.

 

The jolly phonic sound for this week is the Bb sound. Some of the simple words we will work on are: bat, band, ball, big, bad, bag, but, bend, bent, bit, bib, bed. Parents can assist their child by blending the sounds for them and asking them to figure out what the word is. For example: You stretch out following sounds, over emphasizing them is a big help to the child    b   e    d and then asking your child to tell you the word. The more you practice this skill with your child the better they will become. You should print out little cards with one letter on each card and then put them in front of the child so they can visualize and hear each sound as you state them.

 

The word family for this week is the: ag family. Some of the words are: bag, gag, hag, lag, nag, sag, tag, rag, wag, drag, and flag. The students love working on these word families.

 

The By Heart word for this week is: look.