This morning we started our day with chapel. Mr. Borcherding taught us about the glory of God and because of Jesus we will get to go to heaven and be in awe of His glory. The solar eclipse makes us think about what that might be like some day. How great is our God's love that we will be gathered together to give glory to God eternally!
We sorted lowercase letters by tall, small, and "fall down" letters. It is so important that young children are exposed to lowercase letters. None of the uppercase letters are small or have tails. However, the lowercase letters come in three sizes. Our reading material has more lowercase letters than uppercase and without lowercase recognition, reading becomes rather difficult. The same is true for handwriting and meeting the standards of writing sentences. The kindergarten standards have the kids learn to print a sentence that begins with an uppercase letter. Then they need to separate words by spaces and end with punctuation. Without learning which ones are tall or small you would never know which is an uppercase S or lowercase s for instance. We had fun moving to a DVD song to learn to recognize which letters touch the headline, midline, and baseline. We put our hands in the air if the letter was tall, our hands in the middle if the letter was small, and our hands down low if the letter "falls down" with a tail. Later in the day we worked quite a bit on concept of word. I showed the students one word at a time. When I asked how many letters there were in the word, most would reply with the correct number. When I asked how many words it was, most unfortunately answered with the quantity of letters. For instance, when I showed the students the word "can", they could identify that there were 3 letters. When I asked how many words it was, they would also reply with the number 3. We spent a significant amount of time today learning that words are letters put together and when they are put in a sentence they are separated by spaces. We counted words in sentences. Then we compared the number of words to the number of letters in a sentence. With a couple of different books, the students are highlighting various words as we go on a variety of word hunts. Continue to help your child point to words as you read together. Use vocabulary such as letter, numeral, space, word, sentence, period, etc. with your child. These are very important print concepts to learn in kindergarten. Comments are closed.
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