Time to pat ourselves (and our students) on the back. One hundred days! If you’ve been following these lessons straight through, that means you’ve given around one hundred days of lessons. And look how far they’ve come. If your student is like my student, a hundred lessons ago, she didn’t know the sounds of any of the letters.

Isn’t that amazing?

In the past one hundred days we’ve read 30 books. We’ve learned the basic sounds for every letter (save q). We’ve learned two diphthongs, one digraph, one blend, and two word endings.

This is the amazing thing about teaching. A single day never really feels like much, but all of those small moments add up to something big: reading.

Lesson One

• Review sight words: A, a, to, so, O.K., for, or, pink, into, was, car, do, saw, shh, Do, out, fly, bird, of, put, bye, go, Go, no, zero
• Introduce new sight word: who
• Introduce new blend: ook
• Review appropriate sections in the binder
• Read: Kindergarten Set, Book 4 (“Who?”) pp. 1-ff

Click here for a tip on introducing the blend ook.

Lesson Two

• Review sight words: A, a, to, so, O.K., for, or, pink, into, was, car, do, saw, shh, Do, out, fly, bird, of, put, bye, go, Go, no, zero, who
• Review appropriate sections in the binder
• Review Read: Kindergarten Set, Book 4 (“Who?”) pp. 1-ff