This week we began Jolly Phonics and both classes have had so much fun learning the first four letter sounds which are S, A, T, and I. With learning each letter we learned the correct letter formation and the sound it makes with the Jolly Phonics letter motion. My kinders have learned all the letter names, sounds and motions very quickly and I am so impressed how well they can recall the right sound and motion when I say a letter name out loud. Ask your son or daughter to show you all the motions and sounds we learned for each of the letters we learned. Way to go, K-1 and K-3! We learned the sounds for:

Letter Ss- like in the words: snake, smile, sand. 

Letter Aa- it's the short a sound like in the words: ant, apple, alligator.

Letter Tt- like in the words: tall, turtle, tennis.

Letter Ii- it's the short i sound like in the words igloo, iguana, insect. It's very important that they know the i makes the short letter sound NOT like the i sound in ice cream. That's the long i sound.

With learning the first four sounds, we are now able to read some words that contain all the letter sounds we learned such as at, sat, as, a. Today, we will review all four letters and sounds we learned and I'll show them how to blend the sounds together to begin reading. It is so exciting when you see them blending the sounds to begin to read and you see their face light up when they realize they can read it all on their own! 

In math, we are learning all about the numbers 1 and 2. We are learning the correct formation on how to write the numbers from top to bottom along with understanding the quantity of each one. They are having fun in math and showing me all they are they are learning in their math workbooks. Great job, K-1 and K-3!