Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Word Wall

This shows my Word Wall.  Purchased from the teacher store, it works great for so many activities.

more about the letter w

We used our finger painting bags today to practice the letter "w".  (just pour finger paint into a sandwich bag and tape shut).
The children also coloured the sheet that I photocopied from the Upper case Book about the letter w.  I also gave them a purchased sticker of the letter w. to stick on their paper.
We read the story of "The Three Little Wolves"  a great story that has a twist to "The Three Little Pigs".
I made 2 copies of the "W" words in THE RHYMING BOOK  ffp. I hid one word around the room then the children matched them to the other word I had on my word wall.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

w

Do the preliminary songs, and reading from the FunFamilyPhonics textbooks.
1.  Use a dump truck and drive magnetic letters from one side of the room to the other.  Have the door ready with the symbols from FFP. (  I have photocopied them all, put magnets on them and put them ready on the door.  Have your child match the plastic alphabet letter to the phonetic symbol from FFP.

 2,   Print out the words for W. and for V.  well, sell, etc and vet, bet etc.  Have your Rhyming book open to the letter v and w.  Have your child put the word onto the correct page, after they read it.
We are trying to get the children to look at the whole word, not just the first letter.
Sometimes it helps to cover up the first and last letter.  Say the sound of the clown.  then add the last letter.
e.g. " say "e" in the word well  Now show "ell" try to get that sound out, then uncover the first letter. well.
Read any book that features the letter "w".

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Letter v

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Read a book such as, Bernstein Bears " No more T.V."
Print out the Rhyming words for the letter V on cardstock.  Vet, bet, get, jet, let, met, net,pet, set, wet,and yet.  Set up a track for techdecks, put the words on the floor in front of the track.  Sent down a skateboard and the child reads the word that the skateboard lands on.

Letter v

Be sure to do the preliminaries......FFPh. alphabet song- upper and lower case.
                                                    Rhyming word song letter v.
2.  Differentiate between u. and v. It is sometimes hard for a child to see the difference.
     Sticker fun game.  Put a large poster size sheet on the wall with lots of letters printed on it  Use a lot of v's and u's.  Give your child a sticker and ask them to find u. v. etc.
3.  Make a picture using plastic or paper flowers taped into a picture of a vase.  Practice printing v's on the back side.
4.   Put a lot of letters from an alphabet puzzle in one corner of a room.  Have your child use a truck to drive the letters around the room and over to the puzzle.
5.  Make two mailbox houses.  Put the letter u. on one house and v. on the other.  Give your child various pictures that start with a u. or a v.  They "mail" them to the correct house.