Working with Letters

MAKING WORDS

 

 

AT HOME: Together practise identifying letters and making words using FUN materials:

Use manipulatives to build letter shapes:
Use these materials to construct the actual shapes of the letters.

• Q-tips
• pipe cleaners
• pretzel rods
• chop sticks
• skewers
• toothpicks
• pencils
• pens
• crayons
• string cheese
• blueberries

Draw Letters in:
Use a tray to practice making the letter in the material.

Wet	Dry
fingerpaint or paint shaving cream pudding applesauce any puree or baby food whipped cream icing yogurt	salt flour / cornmeal / dry pancake mix sand leftover coffee grounds (dry)

 Decorate a Printed Letter using:

buttons dry pasta dry beans glitter stickers gems seeds (pumpkin, sunflower, etc.) bits of scrap paper feathers bingo daubers or Do-a-Dot markers fingerpaint

markers, crayons, colored pencils sponges and paint small rocks  shells bottle caps foam shapes/stickers pom-poms pictures cut from magazines or junk mail leaves toy cars whose wheels have been dipped in paint