BEGINNING READING - CVC WORDS

Now that letters are learned by my preschooler, we are ready for sounds.  We have been playing 'what sound we hear' for awhile.  Now onto books to read...

I started the book with pictures of my grandson with his name in print, then 'Mom and Dad', and finally, my name is Jan-so it is added.  

I found books that had colorful pictures, scanned and printed them 81/2 by 11.  I love large and colorful.  Of course, I was looking for consonant-vowel-consonant words first.  They are the easiest to begin reading.

Once printed, I put the pictures in sleeves and put them into a small white binder.  Now, all we do is flip through the book.  As my grandson names the pictures, I run my hand under the word and sound it out slowly. He mimics me.

THAT IS THE BEGINNING.

As you work on the book, up the pace of 'what sound starts a word'.  You can concentrate on one sound or several.  Of course, also work on the short sounds of the vowels.

Below are the pictures I have started with:

Here are a few I have not added to the book:

I add pictures as I find them.  Stay with CVC format until your child knows the concept of sounding out the letters to read the words.
Then I plan to go to the /ar/ words: car, bar, far, jar, tar; /or/ words: for; and the other vowel/r combinations if all goes well.
And it will go on...

I like this flip book - already printed for me- for future use-I already cut up the /an/booklet to see if I liked how it worked:

Some additional pages you might use.

LESSON 11 - MOON/K/11/CRESENT

Brightly Beaming Steps to Reading 

Program Preparatory Curriculum Ages 2 - 4 
Adapted by OKScribbler

Lesson 11

This week's theme is the MOON.  The vocabulary word is full (moon) - the moon is full when it is round like a circle and all lit up.  When something is full it is completely there.

(DAILY) Books to read aloud that support the theme:

When Moon Fell Down by Linda Smith
Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0JgitDSmM
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-t9LBXe4_M

Owl Moon by Jane Yolen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN8W05hBbSM

Happy Birthday, Moon by Frank Asch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HusFHbN_96Y

Mooncake by Frank Asch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OiZ7eyFUu0

(DAILY) Poems that support the theme:

Full Moon by Katrina Lybbert

The moon is full, round like a ball,
The light shines down upon us all.

The moon is full, with a glorious light,
I'm glad to see such a lovely sight.

The Moon by R. L. Stevenson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_SdAKl099Y

(In the book, A Child's Garden of Verses)

The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and fields and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.

The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.

But all of the things that belong to the day
Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;
And flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.

(DAILY) Songs that support the theme:

Songs about the Moon at Kididdles.com

The Man in the Moon
Man in the Moon
The Moon
Moon Dreams
Moon, So Round and Yellow

I Don't Want to Live on the Moon by Jeff Moss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtt1hmcJgn8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7iTGHr_Nxc

TIME TO SHINE by StoryBots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i235Y2HRksA

(M) Gross Motor Skills Activity:  

Act out "Hey, Diddle, Diddle."  Place a round cushion or ball in the center of the floor.  As you come to the part in the rhyme about the cow jumping over the moon, your child can jump over the "moon" you have made.

Play catch with a yellow or white ball (pretend moon).

(T) Shape/Color  This week you will teach the shape of a crescent.

•      Collect 3 - 5 everyday objects in the shape of a crescent... ie: croissants, banana, make one out of felt, etc... to share with your child and discuss.

•      Walk through your home looking for crescents. (Or look in a magazine.)

•      Cut crescents out of playdough or cookie dough... bake the cookies!

•      Bake some croissants!

•      Put a drawing of a crescent on your learning poster.  Use black paper so that next week you can color the crescent white.

(W) Letter  The letter this week is the letter K.
K and K have three lines as you can see
A tall straight back and a sideways v

•      Give your child a printout of the (capital) letter K to color. 

•      Teach your child to trace the shape of the letter K using his finger.  You can trace in pudding, finger paint, a shallow tray (cookie sheet) filled with rice or beans, etc.

•      Point out the letter K in signs, cereal boxes, etc.

•      Post the letter K on your learning poster.

R Click on craft poster...open link in new tab or new window

(TH) Number  The number this week is the number 11.
Straight down and then you're done.
That's the way to make a one.

•      Show your child 11 objects to count, or eat 11 mini crackers, 11 cheerios, etc.

•      Show your child the written symbol (numeral) for 11 and put on your learning poster.

•      Add 11 stickers to your counting book.

•      Show your matching index cards for the number 11 to your child.

•      Draw 11 crescents on a piece of paper and count them with your child.

•      Walk around your home counting 11 of many different objects.

(F) Fine Motor Skills Activity: 

Make a "mooncake."  Bake a round cake and then let your child spread on the icing (yellow or white).  After you have iced a full moon, you could cut it into a crescent shape, bit by bit, to show the phases of the moon.

    PAPA PLEASE GET THE MOON FOR ME
Paint a light blue construction paper.  Glue a 
CRESCENT MOON at the top.  Make a ladder
from popscicle sticks.  Take a picture of your
child reaching up toward the sky.  Cut it out.
Glue it on the ladder.  Add gold stars.

 (F) Nursery Rhyme  The nursery rhyme this week is The Man in the Moon.  

The man in the moon
Looked out of the moon
And this is what he said,
"Tis time that, now I'm getting up,
All children went to bed."