December Week 2: Silly Sally

phoneme: /s/

Transition Song: Must Be Santa by Raffi

Materials: Silly Sally by Audrey Wood, Silly Sally big book and manipulatives, laminated letter S, laminated Santa.

Vocabulary and Basic Concepts:  front/back, right side  up/upside down, up/down, high/low, fast/slow, awake/asleep, labeling animals, walk, jump, crawl, march, dance, muddy, silly, singing, tired, tickle/d, What questions, Who questions, alliteration, predicting.

Preliteracy - Draw the letter S.  What words have the /s/ sound?  soup, sneaky, snow, sweet, salty, Santa, silly, Superman, Snack Time.

This week we are using some of our brand new materials we received from our Donors Choose benefactors!  Thank you to everyone who donated towards this.  We read the book Silly Sally by Audrey Wood.

Silly Sally likes to walk backwards and upside down.  There are a lot of rhyming and repetitive words in this book which makes it a lot of fun to read together.  First we read the book.  Everyone called out UPSIDE-DOWN when we got to that part. We predicted who Sally would see next by looking down the path on which she was walking. We listened for alliteration and rhyming words.

Then we used the cards and the character bean bags and made up our own version of Silly Sally.  We danced.  We flew.  We sang.  We attempted to walk upside-down.

That is a GIANT book!  Everyone could see the pictures!

DO THIS AT HOME:  Read Silly Sally together (it's at the library!) or another book with simple words.  Point out rhyming words and alliteration.  What do the animals sound like?  Can you do that?  What do they move like?  Can you do that?  Parents, get down on the floor and do it with your child.  Ask them to show you how to do it.  Change the animals in the story to their favorite ones?  You could even draw you own pictures to make your own book.