Learning About Sentences
April 02, 2026
This year has been flying by! We started out learning letters and sounds and then learning how to put those sounds together to build a word. We even started putting words together and learning that makes a sentence. Now that we are in the last quarter of kindergarten we are starting to write and build sentences on our own! Students practice starting sentences with capital letters, using finger spaces between each word, using punctuation to show our sentence is over, and making a complete idea. We have been practicing all of these parts of a sentence for some time but now the students are learning to apply them independently.
Our students are using the heart words they have learned and also stretching out words they do not know how to spell and then writing the sounds they hear. Even though the words might not be spelled correctly they are practicing hearing sounds, stretching words, and writing. Even though this can sometimes be difficult for students who may not like making mistakes or not having someone tell them how to spell a word it is helping them develop an understanding of how to sound out words that are unfamiliar to them and hear a sound and write it down. After the students write their sentence, they become illustrators. Students learn how to draw and color a picture to represent what their sentence is about.
Learning to write sentences independently and illustrate those sentences will help our students become more prepared for first grade.
