sound power!

Part of our work developing sound power is hearing and producing words that begin with the same sound. Remember our leaf alphabet book earlier this year? We can connect back to alphabet books and use alphabet books to add more words. We can do this by writing another alphabet book, with a space for four things beginning with the same sound!

We worked on the first page together, using other alphabet books to help us produce words that begin with the vowel a. We talked about how some of the words beginning with the vowel a sound like the vowel's name and other words have a stretching sound, like we have learned and practiced during Fundations. 

The children then chose a letter from our alphabet to work on at home during one of our remote days. While at home, they used sound power and picture power to draw and label four things that begin with the same sound, just like we did together in the classroom.

On Thursday we put our pages together, using an alphabet chart to check if we were missing any letters. We needed 26 letters and figured out that we were missing some vowels and consonants! The children worked together to finish the final pages and build our book. 

On Friday we will share a copy of our alphabet book with the preschoolers!