On Monday, we started our new and exciting Literacy Activities! These are fun activities that students are engaged in every morning after our literacy lesson to reinforce important reading skills. This month, we are focusing on name recognition, letter recognition, and letter-sound correspondence.
Today's lesson was on initial sounds. Our JK students had the chance to choose which letter their name started with, and therefore which sound their name started with. As we learned in the Letter Factory, every letter makes a sound! We will continue to do this for the rest of the week :)
We have created some activity bins and have also infused literacy into some of our regular learning centres.
During literacy activities, students can choose a literacy game on the iPad, SMARTboard, or computer. Marko and Izze were on abcya.com putting the letters of the alphabet in order :) They can also use the letter stamps at play-doh- so much fun! As you can tell, they sure had fun stamping in their names! One of our bins includes cookie sheets and magnetic letters. Nathan was spelling his name- awesome job!
Every day, Mrs. Tortola reads the students a book after 1st recess- the perfect way to settle down after some running about outside :) Today's book was "Why Should I Listen?" by Claire Llewellyn. We're really focusing on our listening skills in room 110. Mrs. Tortola and I often like to say random things when we're talking like "Purple Monkey" and then ask students what animal we said- it really checks if they're listening! Good listening means sitting still, criss-cross-applesauce, looking eyes, and no talking :)
We were SO excited to open the listening centre today! My hard work of reading into my computer over the summer really paid off ;) These girls were pros at finding the right track number on the CD to the matching book- they sure must have been listening when we introduced it!
Just a reminder that our "Snuggle Up & Read" Home Reading Program will be beginning soon! We're aiming for the first week of October. Today we sent home some yellow forms about DRA levels- please make sure you read through them as they are very important. As I like to say, this isn't just Kindergarten..... it's Kindergarten- they're the most important years of your child's education because you're setting the stage for their academic career. In order for students to take school seriously, we need to treat it seriously by modelling it's importance.
More to come on Literacy fun!
~ Miss Pliura & Mrs. Tortola
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