I am teaching young children again! Not my own children this time, but the children of a very good friend. See our original post about this adventure here. Each week I plan to share our plans, which I did for Letter W here and Letter X here, and I also plan to share after our week is done so you can see my students in action!

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I am excited to share all about our twenty-third and fourth week together, with a focus on the LETTER W and X! In addition to a letter focus each week we do several other things, which I will also share with you. Since I only have my students two days a week {3 hours each day}, we cram a lot into a short time! I also provide their parents with activities to do at home.

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All About Reading Level 1

My students used All About Reading Pre-reading during the first half of the year and after using the placement test from AAR in December, I could see that they were ready to begin Level 1! Over these 2 weeks, we worked on reviewing CVC words!

Letter W & X Fun

We enjoyed several different activities, most from my site! I will link everything we used below!

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Below you can see AK and Ki doing the following activities:

Letter Review Work

What Begins with?

ABC Find It!

Read & Write the Room

Raising Lil Rock Stars Letter W & X

While the kids color I tell them the story and we review the items on the display board {shapes, colors, numbers}. They also do tracing at home for homework!

Letter Toys & Puzzles

I love setting up fun letter displays and playing with the items. See more ideas here!

Letter Books

We read tons of books featuring the Letter W and X! See all of our Letter W book ideas here and Letter X book ideas here.

You Can Read Word Family OP

We are using You Can Read Word Families in addition to our reading lessons. Word families are a great way to build confidence in reading CVC words. It also helps us review rhyming, and focus on word patterns. We are taking 2 weeks for each word family, we worked the _op family.

Mouse’s First Spring Literature Unit

We finished up a really fun spring theme unit using our Kindergarten Literature Unit and our Spring Kindergarten Printables! These are the plans I share with their parents {and also use myself to keep on track}:

Easter Theme

During our Letter X week, we enjoyed some Easter learning fun since it was around the time of Easter, find the free printables here! These are the plans I share with their parents {and also use myself to keep on track}:

Morning Message

We recently began a morning message notebook. I write them a message before they come to my house. They sit down with a highlighter and highlight any words they can read on their own. Then we read the message together. I always include a “prompt” of some sort. Below you can see Ki Writing some beginning sounds.