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C is for Clouds!

C is for Clouds!

Posted by on Jun 21, 2012 in Painting, Picture Book Activities, Preschool Letter Activities, Tactile Alphabet | 0 comments

This past week M and I practiced the letter/sound correlation of the letter C. M has a tendency to pronounce the /c/ sound as /t/, so we focused on enunciating words that had /c/ as its initial, middle, or end sound. One of the many words we practiced was the word ‘cloud’, so I thought it would be fun to do some activities around clouds using two great books: Little Cloud, by Eric Carle, and It Looked Like Spilt Milk, by Charles G. Shaw.

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S is for Seeds and Sunflowers!

S is for Seeds and Sunflowers!

Posted by on May 29, 2012 in Painting, Plants and Gardening, Preschool Letter Activities, Science Activities, Spring Crafts and Activities | 0 comments

S is for seeds- another letter to add to M’s tactile alphabet

The last couple of days, M and I have been having fun with activities revolving around the letter S. We’ve been talking a bit about plants and how they grow, so I thought it was a good time to introduce M to one of my favourite flowers: the sunflower.

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E is for Eggshells

E is for Eggshells

Posted by on Apr 11, 2012 in Literacy Activities, Preschool Letter Activities, Tactile Alphabet | 0 comments

Today M and I focused on the sound-to-letter correlation of the letter E. He knows E is a happy letter because when you say it’s short sound, your lips form into a smile. I printed off some pictures of things that start with the letter E, and then cut out the letter E from some card stock.
M started by verbally labeling each picture. The second time he labeled them, I had him exaggerate the initial sound, and then say what letter each object starts with (eg. ‘elk, /e/- elk starts with E’). He grasped onto this quite quickly.

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