The students returned today to quite a few new materials, new centers, and new academic opportunities. We'll be featuring these (and standards they help to meet) over the next few weeks.
Magnetic Letters- often found on refrigerators, are a new popular material in the room. We found some of the children were experimenting with letter strings, while others were excited to spell their names. Magnetic letters are a great resource to practice 'writing' without getting caught up in letter formation (and important but separate skill).
Objectives We're Meeting:
15: Demonstrates phonological awareness, notices and discriminates smaller and smaller units of sound
16a: Identifies and names letters
16b: Uses letter-sound knowledge
17b: Uses print concepts
16b: Writes to convey meaning
These don't include when the children create patterns with the letters, or count how many letters they have lined up, match one another, etc.
Magnetic Letters- often found on refrigerators, are a new popular material in the room. We found some of the children were experimenting with letter strings, while others were excited to spell their names. Magnetic letters are a great resource to practice 'writing' without getting caught up in letter formation (and important but separate skill).
Objectives We're Meeting:
15: Demonstrates phonological awareness, notices and discriminates smaller and smaller units of sound
16a: Identifies and names letters
16b: Uses letter-sound knowledge
17b: Uses print concepts
16b: Writes to convey meaning
These don't include when the children create patterns with the letters, or count how many letters they have lined up, match one another, etc.
If you have magnetic letters at home, how does your child interact with them? How do you help them?