Literacy in the Classroom

We have begun our Fundations program, which is a program that provides the children with a foundation for reading, writing, and spelling. The next 12 weeks, the children will be introduced to 2-3 letters each week. Throughout the week the children are engaged in various activities that will have the children learning the name of the letters, the sounds they produce (phonics), word awareness, syllable awareness, and phoneme awareness (identifying sounds, blending sounds, segmenting sounds).

An introduction letter was sent home last week in your child's Friday Folder. Each week, I will be posting the new letters being introduced on our blog (on the right hand side). When a new letter is introduced, the children learn the name of the letter, the keyword, and the sound. For example: for the letter t, the children would say t, top, /t/.

Echo and Baby Echo (snow owls) will be helping your child learn his or her letters. They will also be using a whiteboard with the skyline, plane line, grass line, and worm line, which is the language we use when forming the letters.


We have also begun Writer's Workshop, which is where children are creating books and learning about the writing process. The children have had a blast writing books as they are learning about the logistics of writer's workshop (taking care of materials and what to do when we are done). They are also learning about how writer's get their ideas to write books. For example, we read the book The Roller Coaster by Marla Frazee and after we read what inspires her to write her books (family experiences). Then, I shared a book I made to the class and what inspired me to write my book.

The children have lots of stories to share and I can't wait to hear them during Writer's Workshop this year in Kindergarten!