The Connett Connection

I have been trying hard to finish planning my daughter's kindergarten.  I have a lot of lesson plans written out and now I'm trying to organize it into days of school, making packets for each days lessons complete with all the print outs and games needed for that day. That way, when it comes to prepping each days work, all I do is grab that folder.  Well, as I was going through my language plans I  noticed that I made one more day than I had activities for teaching my daughter ending sounds, so I decided to just make the missing worksheet myself.  Since it is a lone worksheet, I have set it up as a freebie in my store! Above is what the worksheet looks like.  Very simple and hopefully a good assessment for when my daughter gets to it.  I am also working on an ending sounds game for her, so when that is ready, I'll post it here too! To get your FREE copy of the ending sounds worksheet, click HERE !

It just dawned on my that August is just one month away.  I am still heavily planning my daughter's kindergarten year and hope that I can get the year planned before August gets here.  I already have to tweak her language/reading curriculum since we have found an area where she is struggling, and I want to make sure she has a good grasp of those concepts before diving into my personal idealistic curriculum I spent weeks planning for her.  (I know it will change hundreds of times before we get through it as I continue to learn how she learns best and her pace of learning different concepts). I did not realize how difficult rhyming words and phoneme segmenting would be.  My daughter is not an auditory learner.  She is very visual and hands on.  I know this after our first year.  She learned all her letters and numbers to 30 by watching videos that set learning to songs.  I have spent hours searching youtube and other sites for videos and songs to ...