Determined in December

This month has been filled with determination! Students finished learning the names of the letters and we started producing letter sounds. We are segmenting letter sounds and listening for the beginning sounds of words. Children who can segment and blend sounds easily are able to use this knowledge when reading and spelling. Segmenting and blending individual sounds can be difficult at the beginning. We are using our arms, fingers, and colored counters to segment individual letter sounds in words. We also slowly say each sound in a word (c-a-t), and then say the sounds quickly together to "read" the word (cat).

Students synergized to put our alphabet letters in order.

Students created sight word snowmen.

Students work on their motor skills using chalk to form their letters.

We had fun making the letter S with glitter snow.

We practice putting the letters in our name in order with snowballs.