Alphabet review!

This week we began to review our letters and sounds.  We don't follow the order of the alphabet.  Instead, we start with letters and sounds that are found most commonly in words.  In that way, kids can start decoding and spelling words as soon as possible!  We use a program called UFLI to guide our sequence of letters.  This week, we worked on the letters a and m.  The students are already able to read the little word am!  You can help at home by encouarging your child to print their letters in a top to bottom motion.  We also began to learn about heart words.  You might know heart words as sight words.  These are words that we cannot sound out because the letters don't make traditional sounds we know.  So, we have to learn them by heart.  Our first heart word we learned was 'the'.  I encouraged children to find this word in stories at home, because 'the' can be found everywhere!