This term’s focus on Letterland has really allowed the children in the Kindergarten class a chance to interact with the Letterland characters, consolidating initial sound knowledge and learning all the fun Letterland stories which help to explain why letters make certain sounds when standing together in a word.
Did you know for example, that when Sammy Snake stands next to Harry Hat Man in a word, Harry turns around to Sammy and tell him to SH…. He hates noise and Sammy makes so much noise hissing around all over Letterland. When Clever Cat stands next to Harry, his hairy hat tickles her nose and instead of saying her usual “C” sound, she sneezes, making a little “Ch” sound.
Please enjoy looking at the pictures of the Kindergarten children having fun with Letterland!
As part of our morning routine, we imagine that we are going to board the Letterland train to visit this land of letter adventure. Waiting for the train to arrive, the children choose a Letterland character hat and come on the carpet for quiet book browsing, where they look for their character letter in the books. During circle time, we use our hats to use to brainstorm different words that start with our character’s name. For example, for Oscar Orange, we might say oranges, octopus, outside or even October! The hats are also great for making and spelling words. We can make real words and nonsense words too!
As the train whistle blows and the main part of our Literacy lesson starts, we all get aboard the Letterland train for a story about a character and various hands on activities that help reinforce phonics, such as rhyming words, interactive whiteboard activities, and sounding out and printing word family words, like –at,- ag,- in, and many more.
Wouldn’t you like to come aboard?