What a lovely day today was! Students learned all about the letter L. We sang a jolly phonics song about licking lollipops to help us with the sound that L makes. Ask your child to sing it for you!
Here is the link to the song. You will have to fast forward to 3:29 for Ll.

We then took out our magic pens and practised writing both the uppercase and lowercase L in the air before putting our fine motor skills to use. The students wrote both the upper and lower case Ll in their notebooks and then brainstormed items that start with the letter L. We brainstormed items inside and outside of our classroom that make the /l/ sound before drawing and labeling 2-3 of them. Ask your child what they drew and labeled.

Right now the students are copying the labels, which is also part of our curriculum, but eventually we will move into "kid spelling" where they will be writing the dominant sounds that they hear. For example, if they wanted to spell "lime" they might label their drawing by writing "lim" or the word "run" might just have the first and last sounds,  "rn"

We finished up with this weeks learning tables. Ask your child which one they chose to do today. This week we were working on subitizing (recognizing numbers at a glance) with dice games, matching upper and lower case letters to our name and drawing people. Next week we will have a new jobs at our learning tables.

We practiced our poem of the week. Ask your child to sing the poem to you and show you the actions.

Rock Star of the Day!
Next week we start our Rock Star of the day! 
We are all SO excited! 
Please make sure to mark down the special date for your child.

Happy Birthday Almira!!

We hope that you have a wonderful and warm day celebrating!

Reminder that tomorrow is AM Kinders.

Stay warm tonight!