Interactive Bulletin Boards: Letter of the Day

One of my Favorite Parts of the Day is when we go over the Letter of the Week. I know there is a lot of debate over Letter of the Week. We teach Saxon Phonics, so although we teach all letters, we focus on one a week. 

During Morning Meeting, we do a quick spiral review. You can either go over one letter a day, two letters a week, or one letter a week. I do one letter a week.

On the first day of the week I will introduce the letter of the week. We will talk about the letter and the sound. We will then identify the three beginning sounds that either the students or myself has chosen.

The next day we will go back over what the letter of the week and the sounds. We will add those to the bulletin board. Then we will talk about alphabet order, and decide what letter is before and after.

The next day we will go over the letter, beginning sounds, before/after. Then we will decide if the letter is a vowel or a consonant. Then we will learn the sign for the letter.

On Thursday, we will review what we have worked on all week. We will go over letter, beginning sounds, before/after, vowel/consonant and sign. Then we will take the six letters of different fonts. We will lay them out on the floor, and sort between upper and lower case.

On the last day, I would go over the whole bulletin board, and review all that we had talked about.

Storage:

To store our letters I use these Photo and Craft Keepers from Michaels!

However, if you can’t get to Michaels, they are on Amazon too! I always get the clear so they match! I get two of the containers, and keep each letter in a separate container.

You can find all the pieces here: