Be Responsible 
Be Prepared Be Respectful
Phonological Awareness
Initial Sound 
Ending Sound 
Try these activities with your kido's!
Here is a link to a great download. Print these out and work with your child! Have fun!
http://www.epsbooks.com/external/read_write_think/Rhyming_Pictures.pdf
***** Magazine cuts********
You and your child look through a magazine and paste a picture on a piece of paper. Make up a story about something on the page. The more detailed the picture the better easier it is to tell al story.
Children playing outside with the dog
Someone driving in a car: there going on vacation somewhere
****** Nursery Rhymes*****
Recite as many nursery rhymes as you know. Quiz yourself and the kids on the words that rhymes. You can talk about this while you are shopping at the store or riding in the car. The kids will start quizzing you back!
To have a challenge: Recite a line or two from a nursery rhyme and change a word and replace it with a words that rhymes. For example Jack be kimble, jack be quick! What word was changed and what was it supposed to be?
******* FLASH CARDS*******
Are you one of these people who go to the grocery store or wal-mart and wonder about getting some kind of flash cards. We'll just a few suggestions
**** Rhyming Cards
**** ABC Cards
**** Opposites
**** Shapes
*******SILLY WORDS*********
Take words and change the beginning sound and recite the word while adding the letters a-z. For Example: the color brown a- arown b- brown c-crown (d-drown) f-frown g-grown, hrown, jrown-
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I have seen at staples and wal-mart little tile things with letters in a packet! These are awesome to put in a little zip-lock baggie and make words with your child!
Phonological Awareness:
This hot topic is important to the success of reading. Here are a few Key Point to it!
What is it? Phonological awareness refers to an understanding that spoken words are made up of smaller pieces: syllables, onsets (beginning sounds - /b/ in bat) and rimes (ending sounds - /at/ in bat), and phonemes (the smallest unit of sound).
Why is it important? Understanding about these smaller pieces plays an enormous role in a child's ability to learn to read. While an appreciation of sounds and syllables is not the only requirement for learning to read, it is the most important one. Research has shown that students who begin school without an understanding of how sounds form words are more likely to experience difficulty reading.
What are the phonological awareness skills?
Syllabification and rhyming as discussed above are the first skills
Blending sounds into words such as “f--i---sh” is “fish”
Isolating the beginning or ending sounds in a word i.e. “fish” starts with “f” “boat” ends with “t”
Segmenting words into sounds i.e. “what sounds are in the word ‘dish’-d—i—sh”
Deleting the beginning or ending sound and telling what word remains i.e. “say ‘beat’ now say it again without the ‘b’---eat
Activities to do at home!