Visual Phonics- Every letter makes a sound AND has a hand signal!

A few years back, my K colleagues and I were trained in Visual Phonics.  It's a VISUAL system for isolating and learning letter SOUNDS.  I have found that it's a helpful tool for children on their journey to becoming readers and writers.  Below you can take a look at me saying and SHOWING the alphabet.  Kids can try it along with me!

Feeling Fall

 It's officially fall and  much of our learning this week was tied to the changing of the seasons.  On Monday and Thursday the packs went on a scavenger hunt looking for signs of fall.  Both groups were lucky enough to see and hear geese flying south! 

 On Tuesday and Friday the packs had their first Farm to School lesson during which they pressed and tasted apple cider!  

We thought about saying "goodbye" to some favorite summer time activities and "hello" to new fall ones. To help us remember the beautiful sunflowers that are drying, we did some careful observations and made some collaged sunflowers of our own. 

In addition to all this, we continued learning about the attributes of shapes AND Mr. T came to read on Thursday afternoon. 

Have a look...

Welcome to Room 28

 Hello Families!

Maybe this is the first time you've visited my blog or maybe you've checked it out in previous years, but this is the first post for School Year 20-21.  And what a year it is- two different halves of the same class on one blog!  The blog is like a window into the classroom and I try to rely on pictures to tell the story. 

Each day the children are working independently at table spots and teaming up to explore new materials on the rug.

Books are a major feature of our days. There's always at least one read-aloud and time for looking at books individually.

We've getting to know one another through art and design...

and making connections from the classroom to the world!