This week I created my own letter line. Why you ask? Well because my school uses a handwriting that is as ancient as time. *sigh* I'm almost embarrassed to say which one because I don't want to admit we still are in the dark ages of handwriting. After 2 years ( I kid you not) of searching for a letter line in this style with pictures that are labeled I didn't find any that I liked. So what did I do? Created my own. Insane, I know but in the end it came out wicked cute. I put the both the short and long vowel sounds on red polka dotted backgrounds, consonants on blue backgrounds and the letter y got a purple background. Here's a sample. I can't wait to hang it in my classroom. This year I may put up each letter as we cover it instead of putting the whole thing up right away. In the past I've marked each letter we were on with a giant glittery (of course!) arrow to show the class where we were in learning each letter. I used the pictures that correspond with Letter Sounds Song by Jack Hartmann. I like them so much that I will probably be printing out at least one more set for the kids to read in the classroom and that I can use to play games with.
Special thanks to Lita Lita at Learning in Spain for her Polka-Dots Background. I'm sure I'm going to be using it in about a million other places, in an around my classroom.
PS This was my first blog post. I'm slightly proud. It only took me about 6 months to get it together. Let's see if I can master this thing.
Have a nice day and learn a lot!
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