We don't teach phonics but they learn letters and their sounds.

"We don't teach phonics but they learn letters and their sounds."

That's what I heard myself say when a parent asked if we teach phonics.

I pointed to the name labels on the tables and told her that we're always talking about letters and their sounds, like the sounds in their names.

I pointed to the alphabet puzzles and the magnetic letters which had been incorporated into the home center play.

On display is the recipe book, A-Z of recipes, that we will make over the year. It is through their play that the children begin to connect letters to the sounds they make.

We don't teach phonics but they learn letters and their sounds through play.

We don't teach phonics when the environment, or the third teacher, does it so beautifully.

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Journals & Writing

We like to write about what interests us. It's the same for children. Journal writing time is an invitation for the children to draw something of interest to them. They tell me something about their pictures and I write it on the page. They see how writing happens by starting with an idea then seeing it get written down.

The Block House

To help keep "THE BLOCK HOUSE" safe we moved the shelf away from the wall to the other side of the carpet providing a new, and safer, space for the house to be built. The letters: THE BLOCK HOUSE were written on A4 paper and attached to the bulletin board. Some of the children were interested in the letters and matching them with the names of the children in the class. The letter "A" had to be added because there are 5 children who begin with the letter A in our classroom this year.

Yarn Trap

The yarn was used to make a trap. It was tied to a picture frame and a basket. Each was positioned on shelves across from one another. The children had to go "under" the trap to get to the carpet for whole class time. There was a lot of sharing of ideas, problem solving, and use of the positional language "over" and "under" and "around".

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