January 12-16

This week was my last week at the kindergarten so we did a lot of practicing and we began learning a few new skills to help with their reading skills. One of the main focuses of this week was blending sounds, and recognizing the ending sounds in words such a man, can, fan, ten, pen, fin, tin and fun. Letter recognition is a very important part of reading! We also worked on our sight words. We added a few new words such as with, what, has, they, into, have, so, you and like. We practiced these words with a few activities using flash cards and an board activity! This week for writing we practiced writing the letters r and s and learning many words that begin with the letters to reinforce our letter recognition skills. For theme we continued working on seasons and focused on summer with a few puzzle activities and a short cartoon about summer! We learned a lot of new vocabulary words to describe the season, weather and activities we can do in the summer. In our phonics workbook we practiced the letters s and t. We practiced writing, saying and spelling turtle, tiger, tent, sky, snake, and spider. We still need a bit more practice, but we did a really good job beginning with the work this week! As this was my last week we played a few of our favourite games such as bingo, letter recognition board game, memory and sticky ball sight words! It was a really great and fun last week - I will miss them all very much, but I'm so proud of all of their progress! They have certainly learned a lot over the past few months in my class! Dean, Jayme, and Art are very smart and very sweet kids and I will miss them!!!