Lots of Letters

In Prep and Standard 1 we have been learning all the letters of the alphabet. We know that a letter has a name and a sound. Sometimes we forget the sound and sometimes we forget the name but we keep trying.

We have a letter of the week every week. When 'D' was the letter of the week we made 'dotty Ds'. We had to glue the dots onto the letter. Then we practised saying the sound. Doris was very happy because her name starts with the letter 'D'.

We can read words by sounding them out. We say the sound of each letter and then blend the sounds together. Then we can say the word. We practise letter sounds with different games. One game we play is that everyone gets a letter. Then three people stand up and make a word. Someone has to sound out the word for the class.

One day, we made the shape of each of the letters we had learned. We used our bodies to make the letters. Can you guess the letters we are trying to make?

Did you guess them? It was  N, T, S, O and A!

We also like watching videos about letters and singing the ABC song. One video we really like is the Phonics Song. Click on the link below to watch it yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELlZKpi1Zs

Questions:
1. Do you have a favourite letter? What is it?
2. What letter does your first name start with? What about your last name?
3. Which letters have straight lines?
4. Which words can you make using the letters A, O, P, N, T, S and D?
5. What is sounding out? How does sounding out help us to read?