Letterland Day

As you may remember from a previous post, my school adopted Letterland as our phonics program for Kindergarten and first grade. Y'all this program is amazing!!! If it was a crazy busy day and we had to skip our Letterland lesson, the kids were so disappointed. Our principal was so impressed that the second grade teachers will be teaching it next year.

Letterland was created by a woman in England years ago. She created characters for each letter. The creator is in her 80s now but our school was lucky enough to have her son and grandson come visit our school!!! They manage the company now. My team and I were so star struck by meeting them. See we really do love this program.  Go to http://www.letterland.com/ if you are interested.
To celebrate Letterland and all the kids learned this year, we had a Letterland Day the last week of school. The kinders were asked to dress as their favorite Letterland friend.  Below are some of the kids. 

                                             Peter Puppy                                                  

Red Robot

Oscar Orange & Annie Apple

Clever Cat

Quarrelsome Queen & Kicking King

Letterland

I know there are a lot of phonics programs out there but I wanted to give my two cents about one of the best phonics programs I have found.  It is Letterland and it works!!!  My team adopted this program this year and we are amazed at how much the students have learned in such a short time.  This program is about a secret place called Letterland.  Each letter is a different character that will help the kids remember its sound.  The kids are in love with these characters and even the parents tell me that the kids talk about it at home nonstop.  How wonderful is that the the kids are so excited about learning!  I love it!!! Check out the website for the program at http://www.letterland.com/
  Even our first grade teachers, who have been die hard Saxon Phonics fans, have used Letterland this year and are very happy and excited about what it is doing.  What phonics programs are you using in your schools?