Starry Night

Every week, we focus on a letter of the alphabet.  For each letter of the alphabet, our main objectives are to: 

1.  Identify the capital and lower case letter.

2.  Match the letter with the sound.

3. Distinguish the sound from other phonemes.  

Students who already show mastery of the above objectives will focus more on digraphs and short and long vowels.  Now that we have practiced center routines for several weeks, we can start to have more individualized instruction.  However, all students will still participate in various enrichment activities for the letter of the week to help review, extend, and internalize student learning.

An example of such an enrichment activity for the letter Ss can be seen below.  Students searched for Ss in poems such as Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and then painted their own version on Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night.  Students learned about lines, movement, and crayon resist.