Fun with Phonics

We spent the first 9 weeks of school learning the names of letters. Now we are reinforcing letter sounds. Students are listening for the first sound they hear in spoken words. They are also beginning to recognize simple words by sight like it, am, and go.
We had fun painting trees in November when we learned about the letter n. Students put word cards in order to create sentences about Fall. This week, we read stories about growing flowers. Did you know that retelling stories can help students understand them better? We like to share five things we remember from each book that we read together.
One of our favorite activities this month was observing real worms. We are learning about the letter i and Inny Inchworm. Students made labels to describe the worms and created their own Inny Inchworm. Ask your child to tell you about all of the Zoo-phonics animals we have studied this year!