My daughter cracked me up with this activity… you’ll see why. When children go off book like she did run with it if you can.
Gather your materials. You will need some thick paper ( but a chalk board, white board, or even a recycled cereal box would do), a marker, and some recognizable animal toys.
Start by gathering the toys and writing out the letter that corresponds with the first sound in the word. That’s it for set up. Pretty simple eh? I did two sheets one with upper and one with lowercase letters. You can also mix up the letters all on one page. Once children are at this point of matching sounds they need to be focusing a lot of attention on lowercase letters. I let my daughter decide which sheet she started with.
Add your letter sound detective ( that’s what she called herself) and explain that all the animals are looking for their place on the paper.
Since she flew through it I gave her the second sheet. Then our babysitter arrived and my sweet and sassy little one turned on the performance. For the 2nd round of matching she decided to name the animals with first names and at first I was trying to get her back on track until I realized the names she was creating matched the letters on the page. Whoa!! She wasn’t just matching anymore now she was creating and being really funny so our giggles fueled her even more.
Awesome learning from an activity that took all of 2 minutes to set up.
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