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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Little Hands-on ABC’s and 123’s ~ Letter Sort

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This letter sort “game,” as Juliette referred to it was a big hit.  Sorting the letters is a great way to talk about the letters and the sounds that they make while focusing on the shape of each letter and how it looks. 

To set up the activity I picked a few letters to focus on, in this example we were working with the first five letters of the alphabet.  Then I went to my bin of Magnetic Letters and took out all the letters we were going to work with and placed them in a little basket.  Then I wrote each letter on a piece of colored construction paper to create letter mats for Juliette to sort the Magnetic Letters onto.

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Juliette picked a letter from the basket

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Then she showed it to me and told me the name of the letter.  We sang the letter song from the Letter Factory DVD to practice the sounds. 

(The A says “ah",” The A says “ah,” every letter makes a sound the A says “Ah”)

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Finally, she placed the letter on the matching letter mat and continued by picking a new letter.  Juliette was excited to see all of the magnetic letters filling up the mats!

If you do not have a huge collection of magnetic letters look around your house for other letters that you can use.  I noticed we have foam letter puzzles, letter flash cards, scrabble pieces, foam bath letters, letter cookie cutters and even letter stickers would work.

Little Hands-on ABC’s and 123’s is a bi-monthly feature that focuses on practical and simple ideas that you can do at home to help your tot develop their letter and number skills.

Michelle

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