Working with Words this Week

It's been fun week in kindergarten working with words.  Since kindergarten has begun, we've worked on several letters:  m, s, a, t, b, l, f, h, and p.  Not only have we been working on identifying the letters and saying their sounds, but we've started putting the letters together to make words. 

One way we've worked with the letters and words was through writing them on a dry erase board:

I would show a letter, and students would say the sound.  Sometimes I would say the sound and students would write the letter.  Then we would practice writing the sounds we heard and blend them into words. 

During another activity, we would get out letter magnets and build words.  We practiced both segmenting and blending sounds with the letter magnets. 

We continue to work on rhyming and counting words in a sentence, too.  In handwriting, we learned how to properly write capitals R, N, and M.