Letter of the Week: C

Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) was born on March 2, 1904. The NEA now celebrates him and his body of work to promote children's literacy with Read Across America Day (although this year Read Across America Day is being celebrated on Monday, March 3rd). Is Dr. Seuss a popular author in your house? Growing up, we had several Dr. Seuss books in our home library. I admire his creativity and imagination. His play with words lends well to working on word families and rhyming. And he's got a quite famous cat. Ready for some Seussian fun? Let's 'grab our hats and read with the cat'!

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Letter of the Week: E

While we still have some consonant letter-sounds, we have finally come to the final vowel letter-sound! Did you know the letter 'E' is the most common letter in English?

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President's Day, the Olympics, and a Review Week

...oh, yeah, and mid-winter break. On paper, next week is an eventful one. Do you have anything special planned for next week? I hope you also find fun ways to sneak in some review! We are 21 letter-sounds in: O, B, X, S, A, I, F, L, P, J, M, H, U, T, R, W, N, K, D, G, V. With Monday a holiday and the week off from school, let's pause for some review.

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Letter of the Week: V

Valentine's Day is coming up. Next Friday, in fact! Some people are really anti- Cupid's holiday. Others LOVE it. I love the possibilities. It creates a great atmosphere for working on themes of kindness, friendship, love, feelings. It also provides a lovely theme to go along with our letter-sound of the week. Bring on the love!

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Letter of the Week: G

What is your prediction? Will Mr. Groundhog see his shadow? Six more weeks of winter or an early spring? Back before we had instruments and technology to track and predict weather patterns, farmers observed the habits of animals to try to figure out when winter was over so they could plant their crops. Farmers in Europe used badgers, hedgehogs, and bears to forecast the coming of spring. The early settlers in North America found the groundhog to be ideal as it wakes from hibernation in February and was easily observed in eastern United States and Canada.

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