Review Day 1

Review Week is a lot of fun because you get to see what the children have learned and teach them how to blend it all together. We did A LOT and I'm including a lot of info here, so brace yourself :)

I started with reviewing each letter and its sound. I had a board with all the capital and lowercase letters on it. Each kid got to come up and pick a letter, make the sound it makes, then find its match. The kids would decide if it was a match then all make the sound together.

After we were able to review all the sounds I went to our blending board. It is laminated and we can just use a wet-erase marker to highlight words and practice blending. They make the first sound, add a second and work on blending those two before adding another sound.

When they had practice blending and doing words I went back to my letter board and only kept the lowercase letters up. I would say a word, then had the children take turns coming up and picking the letter to spell it. Ex, "fat" First kid would come up and find "f" next kid "a" etc. and we were able to spell a few words.

I sent the kids to do a worksheet filling in the blanks with the proper letter. Because one of the other moms taught feelings I included that in my review and that is what I used for my worksheet. The kids did really well-

After the worksheet we reviewed feelings together and played "Don't Eat Sam!" (Don't Eat Pete" I made a board with Halloween pictures with different faces. We talked about the feelings they were showing and read "Sam." Then played-What a fun game for kids! When everyone had a turn we talked about feelings they felt while playing.

Next I highlighted the word "If." They were each given 4 faces - happy, scared, tired, sad and I asked a bunch of "What if" questions. I pointed to the word "if" and they said it with me when I asked the questions. They would pick the face they felt if that happened and held it up. We then sang "If you're Happy and You Know It"

ex-"What if your mom makes your favorite dinner" ; "What if you can't find mom at store" ; "What if you stay up really late?" ; "What if you lost your favorite toy" etc.

I sent them to the table and had a few activities for them to keep them busy while I took each kid away and worked one-on-one with them reading sentences and blending, etc.

The kids were so great and it was fun to watch their eyes light up when they realized the word they were saying. I had them make the sound as I pointed to each letter only showing one word at a time. Some kids needed me to only show the one letter at a time or they became flustered seeing three letters next to each other or would just try to guess the word. By the time they got to the bottom of the page they got much better at the idea of blending and recognizing the letter/sound quickly.

The activities they were left with was coloring their own "Don't Eat Sam" board, an envelope with faces and patterns they could play with and try to complete the patterns, and a Feelings Book.

The Feelings Book said, "If I... then I feel ___." They had to trace the word "If" on each page, I filled in what it would be when I took them one-on-one and they drew a face for each page - happy, scared, tired, sad.

After my one-on-review we read the book I Wish I Had Duck Feet. What a fun book! They looked for the "if"s in the book then we colored a page. They got to choose what they would want - duck feet, antlers, whale spout, elephant nose, etc. The page said "If I had.... I would..." It was so cute to see their imaginations and see their creative drawings. Too bad I didn't get a chance to snap a few pictures.

It was a really fun, learning-filled day!