This usually requires me to sing a line and have the students repeat it. Then we sing the song the "silly way" by over-emphasizing the words that begin with the focus letter. Tuesday/Wednesday we listen for the letter sound - I say each word of the song (without pointing to the words so that this is strictly an aural task) and the kids have to do a specified motion if the word I'm saying starts with the focus letter.
On Monday, we discuss the meaning of the song since there are sometimes vocabulary terms the students are not familiar with. After singing the song, we do a quick activity. We sing the letter song for our focus letter every day at the beginning of our phonics block. However, I printed off clip art to represent each item and show the pictures as we sing and that seems to help a lot. There are a few songs (2-3) that basically just go through a random list of letter-vocabulary words (kitten, kettle, kite, kazoo - thus 4 instead of 5 stars) and the kids have a hard time remembering all of the words to those songs. Most of the songs are to catchy, familiar tunes. (Note: The dry erase marker comes off easier if you erase it at the end of each week instead of the end of the school year.) It's durable - it's lasted me 6 years and is just now to the point where I think I should replace it.
It's great! The kids love most of the songs and we "hunt" for the letter each week with a dry erase marker. I've used this chart in my PreK classroom for over 6 years now.
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