letters we will focus on writing them neatly and correctly, especially the letters in our first and last names. we are also learning to listen for the beginning, middle, and ending sounds in short words like cap, bug, sit, and pet. besides hearing letter sounds we are practicing stretching words out and writing the letters we hear in the beginning, middle, and end. we will also learn all about word families, that are words that have the same ending like cat and mat. these words rhyme and identifying words that rhyme can help us spell words as well as sound out words in our books. we will also work on 