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Activities
From Susan Lepore, Warwick PL OLIS Children's SIG Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2008
Alphabet activities
- I cut out sandpaper letters and glued them on cardstock so they could create a crayon rubbing of their name. (literacy)
- I purchased once again the large foam magnetic letters (through Amazon but they came from somewhere else) and hid them around the children's room. The kids had a piece of paper with all the letters and they went on a scavenger hunt. (physical)
- I copied a bowl of soup on paper and the kids glued on alphabet pasta and made alphabet soup. My directions was to find each letter of the alphabet, but some wrote their name and some just glued on as much as possible. (creative)
- We have the coconut tree for Chicka Chicka Boom Boom so after the story they all brought up a letter to put on the tree as I called them out. (Note: The Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree kit is available at Lakeshore Learning Center in Cranston for 22.95 11/21/2008 AMcL)
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Additional activity ideas from Anne McLaughlin, West Warwick PL:
- DLTK-kids.com has a Coconut Tree craft for a take home craft activity. http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/miscellaneous/mcoconut.htm
- Coconut tree craft project: Trace a child's hands to make the top of the coconut tree. Use green paper or color green. Or the child can tear strips of green paper to make the top of the tree. Glue to the top of a strip of brown paper (or color the trunk brown). On the tree the child can use crayons/markers to "write" any letters they know or it can become a game with the child saying a letter and the parent writes it.
- A coconut tree can be easily created for the felt board or using magnetic letters. Draw a coconut tree on a magnetic dry erase board for the kids to put on dollar store magnet letters.
- At home families can use magnet letters on the refrigerator or on a cookie sheet. Bring in a cookie sheet to show families that household items can be used for learning play.
- Share a wordless book with the group (language development)
- Artful Letters: Make letters into pictures (M = mountain, S = snake, etc. Books like Alphabatics by Suse Macdonald and Ed Emberley's Drawing With Letters and Numbers or CDB by William Steig can be used for inspiration. (creativity) We did this at WWPL immediately after the sandpaper letter activity.
- I Packed My Suitcase game: Since it may be tricky for pre k to come up with their own ideas for letters of the alphabet, pass out 26 sheets with the alphabet letters and an object (A apple) on each they have to name to go into the suitcase. They may be inspired to come up with additional suggestions.
- Read a wordless book with the group(calendar literacy activity): On November 18 I shared the wordless variation on the Three Bears, Deep in the Forest by Brinton Turkle with the children as a group in front of me, parents seated behind, because of the small size of the book. I chose a book which had a strong basis for demonstrating how children can participate in the narrative, using language skills, etc. If possible, a "big book" would be better choice. I told parents any book for a pre-reader can be used as a "wordless book" if they go through the book without reading the text.
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