Letter of the Week Box
I am so excited to share this idea with
you all! I first encountered this activity, from a colleague working
in a preschool classroom. You can use it to teach your child some
phonemic awareness and basic phonics. It would integrate wonderfully
into a letter of the week curriculum (actually, that was how she used
it). It is a marvelous way to introduce your child to both the
letter shape and the letter sound.
Once you have made the box, you will
need to find objects to fill it with! I used objects with the shape
of the letter that I was teaching, such as: letter magnets, puzzle
pieces with the letter on it, foam letters, etc. I tried to
incorporate both the uppercase and lowercase letter. Before I had
lowercase letter magnets, I wrote the lowercase letter on a post it
note and included that-it doesn't have to be fancy. After you have
those objects, include some objects that start (or end, in the case
of letter x) with the letter that you are teaching. In cases where a
letter could make more than one sound, I choose objects that began
with the letters primary sound (for example, when teaching A, I would
include an anteater but not a ape).
Once you have a few objects which
represent the letter, and a few objects that represent the letter
sound, sit with your child and invite them to take out each object
one at a time and name each object. Take your time while you are
doing this activity. There is no need to rush through the objects in
the box. I often found that this activity sparked a conversation
with my daughter about letter shape (such as the observation that the
letter p can be flipped upside down to make a letter d) or multiple
names for objects (such as the fact that the beanie baby dog could
also be called a puppy).
You could use the box to review, as well. Place several letters in the box with which your child is familiar. Then place at least one object that begins with each of the letters. Invite your child to pull out the letters and objects and match them.
Later on, you could use this activity
to teach discrimination between two sounds made by the same letter.
Simply fill the box with objects that begin with the same letter,
such as C, but begin with different sounds (cat vs. circle). Then
invite your child to separate the objects into two piles based on the
sound.
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