Hello,

Earlier this week we played these games.

We raced cars. When you read the letter you can start racing

Also we played with the guessing bucket. The item was supposed to begin with the letter Ee. Mrs. Clausen and I tried to guess. He brought an Easter egg. We didn't get it.

Hello,

Behind the scenes: Today, I cropped some letter cards and sorted through the children's work. I, also, helped one of the children with her reading.

To start with, today, the children read a story called "Dave's wish". Then, they sang "Hairy Humphrey's carousel." After that, the three of them played a game of twister where instead of just colours, there were words and when they landed on one they had to read it.

Also during last class, we sang a song played a board game.

You roll the dice and when you land on a space you read out the word.

Hello, 

Yesterday, we did a puzzle game. You match the letters to the pictures that start with the same letter. We also played the bucket game. He brought something that started with the letter "Ee". Mrs. Clausen and I couldn't geuss it. It was an earring. At the end of the day we brought out the play-doh and he made the letter "Ee". 

Also, the children read a story called "Where's Jill" and sang a song called "Hairy Humphrey's Carousel". It was a very entertaining day. The boys and girls had a lot of fun.

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Today, the children are playing a word matching game, with letters that end in "at" or "og"(Such as cat and dog). After they match the words they sound it out. If they get it right they receive a prize. They did very well. After this we played a quick game of go fish, but, instead of asking for numbers and suits they asked for word endings (like "od" and "un")

Hello, 

My name is Cassidy and I am volunteering at Fun Family Phonics.

Yesterday, I observed 3 classes. The children had tons of fun playing phonics games and singing songs. 

During K's class we played a bucket game. He brought an item that started with the letter "D". Mrs. Clausen and I tried to guess what it was. It was dirt, tada. 

Then, K was showing some difficulty determining the difference between the letter "b" and the letter "d" so he made a bed using the two lowercase letters (and drew his dad sleeping in it). 

Soon after, Mrs Clausen made two categories, "c" or "d" and K put each of the fun items(ex. car, dinosaur) into either category. He did very well and showed that he understood the sounds of the different letters. 

Next, we played a memory game. Mrs. Clausen and K each took turns covering items that started with the letter "c" and the other then had to guess what they had taken.

Lastly, K played with cars and when he hit a letter he had to match it with the uppercase letters. He was very good at this and matched them all correctly.

All in all, it was a great few classes and the students enjoyed the stimulating and interactive games.

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