As part of our phonemic awareness instruction we have been working on segmenting the sounds in words. We have been working on this skill in several ways. One way has involved physically spelling words in the whole group. Each child has been given a letter. I say a word and the students who have the sounds in the word stand up and arrange themselves to spell the word. They then hop forward one at a time as they say their sound, making the word. We have also been playing hangman using one- syllable words with short vowel sounds. They love this game, which is a great way to develop their awareness of the letters and sounds.

Instead of regular work stations this week we have game stations. Some of the games the children will play are Race to Ten, a math game that helps familiarize them with adding and subtracting and compliments to ten, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a game that involves comparing shapes and finding different ways to build hexagons, Hangman, Shut the Box, and Compare (otherwise known as war).