Reading Corner: All About Today

Children from 2 to 4 years old learn languages through listening and by imitating what they hear, also by memorizing sounds, words and illustrations. Students in Apple Class have not yet learned all 26 alphabets, so they could not sound out words.  They already know some letters, but they don't know letters can make up words and words from sentences can tell stories. Therefore at our reading corner, reading is mostly memorization of illustrations, sight words and short sentence patterns. Sight words are some of the most frequently used words in English, such as "is" and "a". We will be learning more than 100 sight words this year.

At the reading corner, we read storybooks, posters and short sentence patters.  After several readings with teacher's help, most students could read alone. Here are the sentences we've learned this month. Free feel to print it out and read it with your child.

Today is a sunny day.
It is Thursday today.
Today's breakfast is hot dog and milk.
Today's lunch is fish, vegetable, eggs, rice and orange.
Today's snack is bread and tea.

Following are videos of students’ readings. Enjoy!