Grape class September 22-26

The main focuses of this weeks Grape classes were practicing writing the letter b, continuing to improve letter recognition, adding to our sight word vocabulary, continuing our phonemic awareness practices, and working on our reading and oral skills. These fundamental and foundational elements are key skills in ensuring our students can read, write, and speak English properly! Throughout the week the grape class continued working on learning how to correctly write the letter b. We moved from tracing the lines to learning how to write the big B and small b without the guidelines. It's very important that we practice, practice, practice! We are making wonderful progress! The worked on patterns, rhyming words, and phonics this week are part of our building process towards learning how to sound out words and spell words. This is the first step in learning sentence patterns, which is a very important skill and technique when etching and learning the English language. Letter recognition is another important skill we are working on and we began breaking down three letter words and learning how to spell them. We played a number of games, activities, and crafts to reinforce what we've been learning! It's always important to have a little fun while learning. Since this week we were focusing on the letter B and the theme was animals, we made bear masks. The grape class did a wonderful job this week, and I look forward to seeing all of their happy faces on Monday morning!