Dear PPH Parents!
Thank you again for your attendance at the meeting Wednesday night.
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As I spoke about it in the meeting, preparing your children for early reading and writing involves the first step of learning the alphabet sounds not just their letter names.
This week we have started learning our first group of sounds;
s, a, t, p, i, n.
The children are learning how to not only recognise the alphabet letters but what sound they make. Our focus this week has been Ssssss for snake.
Sophie, Sian and Skyla are on our sound tree.
During this week, the class brainstormed many picture words that started with the “Ssss” sound, listened to letter S songs and participated in many activities to help their young brains to remember all about the letter S.
Writing cues and sensory hand motions help the children learn the formation of the letters. In Pre-Primary, we teach them to print their letters in Modern Cursive. It’s also important to help the children recognise S in many other fonts that they see in story books, iPads and from print in their environment.
For this week’s letter sound, the printing cue was...
Start up the top….
“Sammy the snake curls this way and Sammy the snake curls that way”
S
Link to Our letter S song
Hope you all have a SSSUPER! weekend.
:)Miss Horrocks
