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| Word Work - Whiteboard words |
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| Spelling some simple words with playdough! |
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Phonics, reading and handwriting instruction are in full swing now. We have
already featured the letters L and O and will begin working with G, T, P, H, A, N and M in the month of October. Please
reinforce what we are doing at school helping your child find words and objects that begin with these letter sounds and
identifying them on cereal boxes, in magazines, on billboards and signs. All of these activities will help
our kindergarteners to understand that those letters represent a specific sound and those sounds combined together make up
the words that we use in our language.
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| We made an L with our bodies! |
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| Dial Up Words during word work time |
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Our Writing and Word Work time includes many fun and
educational activities revolving around phonics, spelling, reading and writing. These activities are chosen by the student
and are played independently while I am available to confer with students one-on-one. The activities involve building
words with magnets, playdough, on an old cell phone and writing words and sentences (sometimes) on whiteboards and clipboards.
There are also flashcards, sight word detective tools and various phonics games available during this time. The students
are also writing a journal entry on a daily basis. Our goal by the end of the school year is for the kinders to be able
to write one sentence, spelling phonetically (by letter sound), using at least the first and last letter they hear in the
words.
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| Look at my O, Mrs. Peek. . . |
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| Working with a partner to form an O (kind of) . . . |
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| Capital/Lowercase Letter Match |
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| Another O -- we are surrounded by them. . . |
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| Busy at the writing center. . . |
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