I know most of my Texas teacher friends started back to school this week. If you're in the same boat, HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU!!!! Whether you started back this week or a few weeks ago, you've definitely earned your weekend!!! FRIYAY !!!! Now let's get on with Phonics Friday, shall we?! One of the first phonics skills I cover at the beginning of the year is vowels. I introduce both short and long, but focus mainly on the short vowel sounds until that concept is mastered. However, I think it's important for our kids to know BOTH sounds since they'll encounter those sounds/vowels in their reading. When I … [Read more...] about Phonics Friday – The Short Vowel Edition
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(Short) Vowel Fun for Everyone!
Happy Labor Day! We spent our day doing a whole bunch of nothing. I love those kind of days. Mr. Spouse had to go in for a few hours today and the boys and I hung out around the house...playing MarioKart Wii...cleaning up...and fighting off a bug that {as Grant said} "surviveth in the water!!!!" That miraculous water surviving bug was the sole reason they refused to swim this afternoon. Oh dear. When the boys are home, I have to force them to take a little "down time". They aren't really big nappers...unless they're in the car...and that's really a shame because I could nap for hours :) … [Read more...] about (Short) Vowel Fun for Everyone!
The Vowel Song
Our anchor letter this week is the letter ‘A’. We don’t teach a letter a week, but we do have a phonics program we follow that focuses on one letter each week. We spend our small group time and shared reading/writing instruction to focus on and teach the alphabet. {I personally like to introduce the letters in McCracken order during small group because that’s how I was taught to do it my very first year teaching! Some habits die hard! But hey…the letters are being covered on all ends possible!!! HA!} Anyway since A is our anchor letter this week, I introduced the vowels…after all, that’s a pretty important … [Read more...] about The Vowel Song
