Catching Up

The next few posts will be catching everyone up on what we have been doing the past two weeks.  Sorry about the delay in getting these entries online. 

For this shared reading poem we read and chanted the poem for several days.

A Turkey is a funny bird.
Watch him wobble, wobble
All he knows is just one word
Gooble, gobble, gobble!


We discussed the difference between letters and words.  One way I help the students to remember the difference, capitalizing on a favourite meal of many kindergarteners....spaghetti and meatballs.  The spaces between letters within a word are "spaghetti" spaces (skinny), a new word starts at a "meatball" space.  We use popsicle sticks with pom poms to help discover which spaces are,in-fact, meatballs. 

During centre time students were invited to use wikki sticks to put circles around letters in the poem. 

When reading with your child at night see if they can locate letters they know and look for "meatball" spaces too!