Word Work at School and at Home

During class this week, we spent time focusing on three letters:  Mm, Aa, and Tt.  We thought of words that begin with these letters.  Try it at home!  Which words can your child think of that begin with m?

We can find words that begin with the letter m.

We spent time rhyming this week as well.  One of our favorite games was I spy.  I would say something like I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with star.  Another game we would play went like this: Which of these don't belong:  bat, dog, mat?  How do you know?  Try these at home!

I spy with my little eye something that rhymes with clock.

We practiced reciting nursery rhymes, too.  We did Humpty Dumpty, Hey Diddle Diddle, and Mary Wore a Red Dress this week in class.  Find the rhyming words with your child.  Then try changing the words slightly to practice rhyming or to make it more personal to your child.  You wouldn't believe the laughs we had in class when I changed the names of the rhymes to the students' names.  For example:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a log, humpty dumpty had a big hog
Jenny Penny sat on a wall, Jenny Penny had a big fall

We are working on listening to sentences and determining how many words are in the sentence.  Try giving your child a few sentences (one at a time) and helping him or her figure out how many words are in the sentence.  This might be good to do in the car running errands.

Lastly, we practiced writing the capital letters of F and E this week.

Working on letters, their sounds, words in a sentence, and rhyming will help your child develop phonemic awareness.  Phonemic awareness is the building block to reading.

Here we are this morning finding words that begin with the sound /m/.