Wednesday, September 14th, 2011...

"C" - The CRACKING EGG sound!

Today we introduced the letter C or, as we call it in preschool, the "cracking egg sound".

At circle time in most of the classes (Miss Jamie's afternoon class will be doing this on Monday)the kids were able to watch and listen as the teacher cracked raw eggs for them! We listened and sang along with the Phonics by Spelling CD for the first time today.




In Arts and Crafts, we practiced our watercoloring skills and painted "C's" in a rainbow of colors. The children are trying their very hardest to remember to dip, color,paint, dip, color, paint, etc... This is our method of remembering to wash the brush after each use of color (so we don't mix the paint colors). They are really getting the hang of it!

In Music we sang songs that contained our "cracking egg" sound.

*Old MacDonald Had A Farm (we focused on COW and CAT)
*Little Red Caboose
*Muffin Man (we like to change to Cupcake/Cracker/Cookie Man -or any other yummy food the kids came up with that used the "cracking egg" sound)
*Pease Porridge Hot, Pease Porridge Cold

PARENTS PLEASE NOTE: If you are asking your child about the letter sounds, please remember that we are wanting them to respond with the sound the letter makes, not necessarily the name of the letter. The ideal way to handle this is to SHOW your child the letter and then ask them to tell you what sound the letter makes. Don't avoid naming the letter (I always ask them "What sound does this letter C make? While I am pointing to the letter.). If you have any questions, please feel free to ask!


***Because of copyright restrictions, we are unable to post the pictures that we use for the letter sounds. We use Miss Nada's Phonics by Spelling program. If you are wanting to purchase a set of books and CD's to use at home or on the go we have them available for purchase. It is not required that you do so, but Miss Nada has offered them to parents of Little Readers Preschool students at a discount. These are always available for purchase throughout the year. Pricing is as follows...

Phonics by Spelling 2 book/2 CD set = $21.00 (regular price is $29.95)
Phonics by Spelling 2 book/2 CD set (slightly bent or damaged) = $12.00 (this is a really great deal if you don't mind the slight imperfections)
Phonics by Spelling spiral bound book and DVD = $21.00 (regular price is $38.00)