The youngest students have been working on a cutting book during journalling time once or twice a week.  This activity has focused on cutting out pictures from magazines and pasting them with the correct initial sound in the alphabet.  Students then have to write neatly what the picture is, cut that name out of the paper and paste it near the picture.  As we fill up our book, students are finding it difficult to find pictures for some of the less used letters like x and q.  Some great picture and word combination have been “cousins”, “bear claw” and “spy gear”.  The students are very creative when it comes to what the pictures are of and where they can fit them into their books.