Letters Ff, Tt, Rr, Ii Lessons 7 - 10 26 Lessons in 26 Days

Our days in kindergarten continue to be full of fun as we learn one new letter each day.   Our mornings begin with coloring a puppet and pictures that begin with the letter of the day.  We then come together and sing with our puppets. Each cute little song is sung to the tune of Old Mac Donald had a Farm.

On Tt day the students arrived to find Teddy Bears from Dollar Tree waiting for them along with their puppets.  I try each day to find memorable activities that connect the letters and sounds to their sweet little brains.

We made Itsy Bitsy Spider water spouts out of straws for letter Ii.  I gave each child an oversized bendable straw and a spider ring.  We moved the spiders as we sang the song.

We sorted rings, rattles and rocking horses on letter Rr day.  These little Dollar Store tweezers and lunch trays worked perfectly for small motor strengthening and practice sorting.

We made many connections with our book this week, How Do Dinosaurs Go To School by Jane Yolen.  One of the favorites was a STEM activity from my TPT Unit.  We loaded up a large vehicle with large dinosaurs and a small vehicle with small dinosaurs.  We counted how many dinosaurs each could carry from home to school.  After doing the activity whole group, it was moved to a free choice station.

We also created shape dinosaurs.

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 Our daily small groups meet for 20 - 30 minutes.  The students are learning to work independently at stations doing a variety of activities.

At their seats they are practicing identifying beginning sounds as they make their character hats.

At the teacher table the children are learning many skills with the weekly and daily letters.

1. The students practice forming their letters

2.  The students practice matching and identifying the letters of the week.  They also practice matching beginning sounds for those letters and producing each letter sound in isolation.

3.  The students build words with their letters.

4. The students read books with pictures that begin with the letter of the day and sight words they need to learn.

5.  The students learn to build sentences and track print.

All of these skills are part of our daily small group:

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