Pictures of the Preschool Room

WORK SPACE

WORD WALL/BOOK NOOK/LISTENING CENTER

A PLACE TO HANG MASTER PIECES

RUG TIME

KITCHEN

PUPPET THEATER

Circle Time

**CIRCLE TIME**
We will begin our day with Circle Time as a group.

During Circle time we will:

Sing Days of the Week

Months of the Year

Review old letters

Learn new letters

Phonemic Awareness Activity

Daily Graphing

Daily Graphing

**DAILY GRAPHING**

One of the first things students will do when they get to school is put their "face magnet" 

under "yes" or "no".  As a group we will tally up the results during circle time..

EXAMPLE OF DAILY GRAPHING:

Phonemic Awareness

PHONEMIC AWARENESS:
A pre-reading skill; manipulating sounds.

Isolation: recognize individual sounds in words 

Example: What is the first sound in cat? (/c/)

Substitution: substitute a phoneme for another

Example: Say cat.  Now change the /c/ to /h/ (Now you have hat)

Segmenting: segment or separate the sounds

Example: Say all of the sounds in cat. (/c/-/a/-/t/)

Blending: blending individual sounds together.

Ex: The teacher says (/c/-/a/-/t/).  The teacher then asks the person to blend the sounds together. (cat)

Deletion: deleting a sound.

Example: Say cat.  Now say cat without the /c/. (at)

EXAMPLE OF GROUP PHONEMIC AWARENESS ACTIVITY:

Phonemic Awareness Concept: "Substitution".

The teacher chooses one letter to put in the blanks.  Example: /b/

I love to eat bapples.

Their buicy and bweet.

The one thing I don't know

is which one to eat.

Literacy Centers

**LITERACY CENTERS**

Students will rotate to 3 centers (Literacy and Math).

LITERACY CONCEPTS THAT WILL BE LEARNED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR:

Rhyme

Beginning sounds

Syllables

Onset and "rime"

Word Families

Identify upper and lowercase letters

Identify letter sounds

Recognize environmental print

High frequency words

EXAMPLES OF LITERACY CENTER GAMES:

Pocket Chart

**POCKET CHART**

The pocket chart will usually have the same words as the easy reader book box books.

It is a way for the whole class to see the words easily.

The pocket chart will be available for students to read on their own during literacy centers as they 

"Read Around the Room".

Read Around the Room

**READ AROUND THE ROOM**

This is a literacy center.

The students get to put on glasses and use a pointer to read everything 

they possibly can around the classroom.