This week we will be working on the letters Ii (Inny Inchworm) and Jj (Jerry Jellyfish).  Ii is a vowel and can make 2 sounds. It can make the short /i/ sound in words like pig, lip, slip and igloo or it can make the long /i/ sound as in pie, ice cream, night and pineapple.  Vowels are hard workers!  To print the uppercase I use the ABC boom strokes - plop, vroom, vroom.  Lowercase i is made with a plop and a tick! Practice printing these at home.  Jj can be found in the words jeep, jig, Jennifer and just.  Look for words with the letter j in them at home.  Check your food labels and newspapers. It is very important to practice letters and sounds at home. We are working on using begininng sounds and stretching out words when writing.  Ask your child to tell you what letters certain words begin with (Can you tell me what car starts with? How about elephant?) and have them try to spell by stretching out for sounds.  A fun game to play is the Quiet Machine on pbskids.http://pbskids.org/lions/games/We will finish up our Math unit on patterns this week and start working on the numbers 0 to 5.  Keep searching for patterns at home. Try and find some number patterns! Picture re-take day is Wednesday. Please let me know if you want your child to have a re-take. Library is Thursday. We are going to have a super week in Kindergarten!