Reading
Learning the alphabet is very important with this age group. By using our phonics placemat and some songs, we teach the children to be excited about their letters. Each week the teacher will concentrate on one letter and finish with a project that begins with the same letter. The projects will range from sewing, putting objects together and gluing wood projects together.
This year, each child will have his or her own workbook and will bring home papers from that workbook. As they finish the workbook, we will continue to move into the next more advanced workbook. There will be a small fee for each workbook.
Each reading group will be different in some way, but we will continue to work on recognizing capital and lowercase letters, work on writing names, numbers and progress into learning to combine their sounds.
Once the children have recognized all letters and sounds, we will begin to teach them sight words and three letter words.
The Reading program has been very successful in teaching children how to read before kindergarten.