“I can do actions that start with the letter sounds I am learning.” Outdoor learning in kinder is the best! #renewalsupportteacher Plymouth School #doyourbestanddowhatsright

“Letter leaves” in the kinder courtyard today! Some leaves had letters written on them and the kinders’ wrote the letters they have been learning on the leaves as well. They sorted the “letter leaves” by letter sound! Plymouth School #RST District School Board of Niagara

Can you match the letter on the dice to the first sound you hear when you say what is on the picture card? Listening for initial sounds is fun! #doyourbestanddowhatsright Plymouth School #rst

What sounds do you hear in the word bat? Hop in the hoop for each letter sound in that word! B-A-T=three hops. #RST#whatsoundsdoyouhear #plymouthkindersareamazing@SchoolPlymouth

Whoa! It’s been awhile since I shared but here is a fun activity to practice segmenting and blending sounds. This friend is doing a great job learning digraphs :) Plymouth School

Sorting by initial sounds. The kinder kids listened to a word, isolated the initial sound and chose a post it with that letter and added it to the chart. They are rockstars! Plymouth School #doyourbestdowhatsright

Using a slinky to sound out words? Why not! Say a letter sound and the slinky moves out, when all the sounds have been said,the slinky comes together and you say the word! This helps our kinder friends sound out and make CVC words using letter tiles. Thanks Hogg’s Ones

Looking for a fun way to practice the phonics skills you have been working on with your kiddos? Write your target skill words on blocks and play a fun game! Pull a block, read the word! Thanks for the idea Jen Demers Plymouth School

Phonics instructions should be and can be engaging and fun! One way we are starting to play with words and sounds is by using word ladders. This grade one friend knew that “oo” was in the word “food”. We made our own ladder with other “oo” words! Plymouth School

We are using our new Bug Club books in our groups. We decided that this book needed some words and we labelled objects with the word or the initial sound! Great job kinders! #doyourbestanddowhatsright Plymouth School

Can you crack the code? Write and read the CVC word. Thanks for the idea K2-Stayzer Plymouth School

Word sorts are a great way to practice phonics skills. This group sorted these words according to the digraphs we have learned. They noticed that the word “which” could fit into two groups! #rst Plymouth School

Have you ever noticed that when you say the “tr” blend it can sound like the digraph /ch/? Last week the kiddos listened to a word and had to decide if it started with tr or ch. the kids had to slide down the “tr” slide or the /ch/ slide to show their answer! Plymouth School

Squish that vowel! Isolating the medial vowel sound in CVC words can be tricky. We have been working on saying the word, using the roller coaster hand motion from Heggerty to show that when our hand gets to the top our mouths are saying the vowel sound we need to identify!

Track and field day at Plymouth! Christie and Zanatta at the long jump pit, 2 years in a row! Thanks Travis Yando Darren Crowe for organizing Plymouth School

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Plymouth Panthers at camp!!! The best time ever! Jen Demers Darren Crowe Plymouth School

#doyourbestanddowhatsright the Plymouth 7/8s are rocking camp and it is an amazing thing to experience! #proudteachers Jen Demers Plymouth School District School Board of Niagara

Track and Field day at Plymouth! Zanatta and Christie at the pit, three years running! District School Board of Niagara Plymouth School

Our Plymouth Panthers have been crushing phonics! First pic, sorting words with long e and short e sounds. Pic 2, using magnetic tiles to segment and isolate sounds Plymouth School District School Board of Niagara