Ashleigh Sang in Honor’s Choir

These are the girls from South Haven that sang.  There were lots of boys too (not pictured here).  The music was awesome.  The South Haven Music program is well developed and deep.  My daughter is the blonde and in dressed in blue.

Houghton Mifflin songs

Houghton Mifflin introduces the letters with an animal. They have songs that support the students’ learning.
A teacher I know is supporting the students’ learning by putting clipart with the words.

The same teacher decided to make up her own “MMMMMMMM” poem/song.

Word Wall Words Singing High Frequency Words

Songs that help teach words
Here are a few songs/chants I have added to my collection:
1. (tune-”If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you think you know this word raise your hand(2x)
If you think you know this word that you just heard,
If you think you know this word raise your hand.
(supply a word stretching it out [...]

Reading Strategies Song (I’m a Little Teacup song)

Reading Strategies include fix-it strategies. This is a wonderful example and poster of how to explain this to first graders. This is simply one example of wonderful posts on Timmon’s Times site. This is the Timmon’s poster. I posted it here to encourage you again to go to her site and see what she is [...]

Where is Letter?… (Sing to the tune Where is Thumbkin?…)

Every child has a letter card that is large enough to hold up and show the other students. All the children are sitting in a circle on the rug.
The teacher sings:
Where is letter (a)?Where is letter (a)?
The student with letter sings:
Here it is.Here it is.
Teacher sings:
Tell me what the sound is.Tell me [...]