What We Are Doing in the Month of October
Hello Parents! This month, we will be focusing on increasing and developing your child's phonetics, specifically their phonics. Phonics is defined as is, "the relationship between letters and sounds in words. (being able to see the letters, hear the sounds and reproduce them)," ( Ranweiler, L., 2004 ). In order to help their phonics, we have been doing several activities. For example, we have a letter bolding activity in which I have the students embolden the letter of a word to help them remember the letter and its corresponding sound (Letter Links). We started off with their names, as this is one of the most familiar words they know. After sounding out their names, they then proceed to embolden the first letter of their names. I have expanded on this activity where when we come upon a new word as we read as a class, I go up to the SMARTboard and write it out. I then have the class sound out the word and have one of the children come up and embolden it. This activit...