The Power of 'S'...

Te Kākano enjoys a literacy rich environment through print, sharing and visuals.

We promote and support a range of early literacy skills including oral and written phonics, decoding, whole word reading and skills that transfer to our writing and story work :)

We love our 'Poem of the Week' which is based on a letter of the alphabet. We work through the alphabet during the year to learn each letter name and sound, a poem based on alliteration and rhyme  plus alphabetical order and the associated sign language for the letter amongst other things!

We stick a copy of the weekly poem into our Poetry book so that we can share them with our whānau too!

Here's the power-of-S!