We started our adventure in reading today! We discovered that all of the letter sounds that the children worked so hard to master during preschool, when put together, make words! After reading the book, The Alphabet Tree by Leo Lionni, we began to build simple words in the -at family…C-A-T, H-A-T, B-A-T, R-A-T, then we sounded each of them out. The children then worked independently on building their own -at family word and an illustration (good writers always illustrate their work with a picture that matches!) For a fun way to practice sounding out words…visit Starfall and use their “Word Machine.” This is a website that you will need to purchase a membership for a minimal fee. This site is worth every penny. You will be able to use it through first and second grade. A fun, interactive way to practice essential skills. LET’S HAVE FUN LEARNING!
Letters by themselves are just letters
But when they are grouped together...Presto! It's a word!
As September comes to an end, so does our transportation theme. What better way to end our theme than with trains? Everyone in class really enjoyed our stories “Freight Train” and “I Love Trains!” Later we created our own train! We had so much fun chugging along the track. We also watched a short video called, “The Train Colors Song.” You can check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwlMvE8qeoY.
Inside the classroom we have lots of trains to play with.
We focused on independent letter formation and orientation during our sight word study today. What an amazing job they did! I’m so very proud of their hard work and perseverance. They are on their way to becoming independent writers ready for Kindergarten.
We learned about constellations during group time today and found them on the smartboard in the night sky. Then, we used our developing fine motor skills to carefully poke holes along our sight words with a small toothpick to create our own constellation.
We started our week with sorting our sight words from last week and our new ones for this week! This activity not only focused on sight word recognition, but required the ability to follow multi step directions, sorting, and fine motor skills for cutting, pasting and manipulating the small pieces of paper.
We were Author’s and Illustrator’s today! We re-read the book, Where is Scooter? by Bruce Larkin in reading groups. We wrote a new sentence for the book, cut it apart and put it back together. Then we illustrated the sentence. Cutting apart simple sentences is a great way to get a better understanding that letters make words and words make sentences!
Creative Tots has specialized in the private education of both toddlers and preschool age children for over 15 years. We began in the heart of Madeira and now also have a new Mason location. We are specifically designed to focus on early childhood development for children ages 18 months to 5 years.
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