In Heggerty, we have been practicing the phonnemic awareness skills of rhyming, verbally separating compound words into two words (and putting them back together). We are also working on isolating the beginning and ending sounds in a word, and determining how many words are in a sentence. 

In Fundations, we have introduced capital and lowercase letters Tt, Bb, Ff, Mm and Nn. We are focusing on letter ID, sounds, and proper letter formation on the Fundations lines. We are also sorting by beginning sounds. 

Click here for the home support video and here for the home support packet for this week. 

Our centers for the past few weeks have focused on building and forming Tt, Bb, Ff, Mm, and Nn with

-Wikki Stix 

-Q-Tips

-Playdough

-We also started our ABC Poem Books: we read a poem and listen for the letter sound and highlight that letter. 

-We have also been adding songs and poems we've been learning into our Poetry Journals before illustrating them. 

-We also started picture sorts by beginning sound. 

Our first EL Literacy module focuses on toys and play.  We have been discussing and reading about what makes playing together fun.  We practiced being a speaker and a listener by taking turns with our buddies, using (pretend) microphones. We also started learning about how to stretch out a word to hear all of the sounds and write the letters that we hear. 

We have been reading Llama, Llama, Time to Share, and focusing on the changes in the characters' actions and feelings throughout the book, and how they affect the other characters. We are practicing retelling a story and naming the characters and setting ("The setting is where it happens"). 

We finished up our September Number Corner by estimating how many cubes we had amassed all together, throughout the month. We also discussed all of the patterns we'd identified on the calendar.  We said goodbye to September and started our October calendar.