Danny worked on phonemic awareness through rhyming words today. He looked at pictures and had to match up words that rhymed such as boat and goat and then said each word. We also reviewed letter sounds.

Ben reviewed phonetic sounds and matching words to each sound. He read a magazine article on Goliath Groupers and used his decoding skills for words he didn't know.

Danny reviewed letters and their phonetic sounds. He practiced saying sounds, a word that begins with the sound, and matching sounds to appropriate letters.

Ben reviewed letter sounds today. We went through all letters using flashcards and he gave me the sound of each letter as well as a corresponding word to go with the sound. For enrichment we read articles about Australian animals in a magazine and practiced using decoding skills for words with which he was unfamiliar.

We began the session reviewing vowel sounds using word building blocks. Ben enjoyed this hands on activity because he said they looked a lot like legos. He added consonants to the front and the end of each vowel to make a three letter word. He practiced reading the words with the same beginning and ending sounds but different vowels to reinforce the sounds and to feel the different shape his mouth makes when he says each vowel. He also practiced isolating beginning sounds. He looked at three pictures on different pages and was asked to find a picture with a certain beginning sound. He was very good at isolating the beginning sound.

Daniel used word building blocks to practice vowel sounds individually. We added consonants before and after the vowels and practiced sounding and reading c-v-c words. Next, we reviewed each letter sound with a corresponding sound picture. We worked with the m sound and isolating the sound at the beginning of a word. We did an activity where he looked at three pictures on a page and had to pick the picture that began with the m sound.

We reviewed the story "The Library". Ben liked the story. We talked again about context clues.
We reviewed the meaning of context clues. Ben went over the paper related to context clues.
We started the next story in Open Court called "Story Hour-Starring Megan".

We reviewed letters a and m. Danny reviewed them with me and we practiced saying the sounds in the mirror. Danny also traced the letters and said the sounds.He enjoys saying the sounds in the mirror. He traced the letters on the small chalk board. We talked about things that begin with these sounds.

We read a book called Down By the Bay and Danny knew the song well. We sang it. We then discussed the letters a and m. We reviewed the sounds and talked about words that begin with these sounds. Danny wrote the letter m in his book.

We discussed books that Ben enjoys reading. We went on Razz Kids on the computer. He enjoyed reading Goats are Great. He read it with me and then did the quiz about the book. He did well with the answers.