Tell Me A Story: HAPPY THANKSGIVING and MY CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER and CALENDAR SAMPLES

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

The first time I memorized Psalm 100 was when I helped my daughter, Kristin, memorize it when she was in Kindergarten at Independence Christian School. A few years later, son Benjamin memorized it, too. I taught Psalm 100 to all of my students in my preschool and Kindergarten classes at I.C.S. and at Timothy Lutheran.

Our family recites Psalm 100 each Thanksgiving! We have much to be thankful for, and a thankful heart begins with giving thanks to GOD.

MY CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER
and CALENDAR SAMPLES

I spent 12 years in Kindergarten and Preschool...as a teacher, and I had just as much fun as the children.

"You can't scare me,

I've taught three, four and five year olds."

Marcia Norwood

My gift for you today?

Here are samples of my personal

class newsletters and calendars,

and samples of some of my

correspondence to parents.

I handed out copies of

calendars and newsletters to parents,

emailed copies to parents,

and posted letter-size copies,

as well as enlarged copies in our classroom.

It is my hope that these samples

will help

caregivers,

teachers,

parents and

grandparents

around the world

as they prepare

creative activities for children.

My newsletters show what activities we did each month;

when letters and numbers are introduced;

and what Bible lessons and memory verses we learned.

We had "Show and Tell" every Friday.

I requested the children bring one item

that began with the letter

we learned that week.

Show and Tell was GREAT FUN!

Some children brought people whose name began

with the Letter of the Week as their Show and Tell item!

Others brought treats that began

with the Letter of the Week.

Have fun!

This is the order in which I introduced letter recognition and phonetic letter sounds...according to the ABeka Book curriculum.

NEWSLETTERS & CALENDARS

PRESCHOOL CLASS

PHOTO SHOOT:

I used edit options in Microsoft Publisher to create personalized color sheets for my students - using photographs I took of them. They LOVED coloring there own image! Copyright 2005 Marcia Norwood

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and invite a friend!

Mary Marcia

America's STORYTELLER

Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

I used the ABEKA Book curriculum

from Pensacola, Florida.

It is a GREAT way to teach children to read.

Here's how I taught
preschool and Kindergarten students
how to read. It's fun and easy.
The kids think it's a game,
and there's NO pressure.

Use the phonics approach,

and introduce letters (one a week):

1) Short vowel sounds

a in apple

e in elephant

i in indian

o in ostrich

u in umbrella.

2) Sound of consonants

3) blends

(consonants and short vowel sounds)

ta, te, ti, to, tu

4) words

with consonants plus short vowel sounds

(cat, bat, hat, egg, leg, log)

5) long vowel sounds

(i in icicle.....)

6) RULES

One Vowel Rule

"When there is one vowel in a word,

it usually says it's short sound."

(mat)

Two Vowel Rule

"When there are two vowels in a world,

the first one says its long sound,

and the second one is silent."

(mate)

7) Exceptions to the rules:

Long o as is "go"

Long e as in "me"

CLICK on the link or COPY & PASTE the link in your browser:

http://www.abeka.com/

I also used the ABEKA Book curriculum

to teach my daughters (born in China) to read English.

Neither spoke any English when they were adopted

at six years and eight years of age.

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Sunday, November 22, 2015

HAPPY THANKSGIVING and MY CLASSROOM NEWSLETTER and CALENDAR SAMPLES

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AMERICA'S STORYTELLER, Marcia Norwood