Short and Long Vowel sounds

Hi First Families,
Throughout the beginning of the year we have been working with short and long vowel sounds.
Here are some of our favorite vowel songs from a great website called www.havefunteaching.com!
Take a little time to learn and sing these with your kids.  Have them make lists using the short and long sounds, as well as practice spelling the words on their own and illustrating them!
Our class also loves to go for a sound hunt in books.  For example have them look for short a sounds like in cat and see how many they can find in one book.
Have fun with reading and they will too!
Ms. Linville

Having fun with Long O words!

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First Glance at First Grade Literacy Centers

Enjoying books in listening center.

Playing scrabble flash in the working with words center!

Working hard at the handwriting center!

Reading big books with friends!

Researching and writing about animals.

 

Center board, including the centers: Working with sounds, alphabet games, write the room, research, working with ABCs, working with words, popcorn words, classroom library, the story box and big books

 

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