Teaching the Alphabet, early writing
I have been searching the Internet for some ideas for early writing. Man some of the kits cost a fortune. I think the most important thing in teaching young children is to make it as much like play as you can. Children learn through play. So I came up with my own "kit" Here is a list of things I'm doing with my daughter.
Bingo marker- letter tracing... Connect the dotss lalalala (sorry from the peewee Herman era) I think I picked this bingo marker up at the dollar tree you can get them anyplace. The child traces the letters its pretty self explanatory.
I picked up some books at our local Walmart nothing real fancy but they are nice. We don't use them for long periods just small sections of what we call "school time" She really enjoys them.
Inside each book there are many activities. To save even more money I got contact paper and covered the pages so she could use a dry erase maker on them and use them over and over. The contact paper is a PAIN in the butt to roll out but it works well.
My daughter enjoys writing and erasing the pages.
I didn't get a good picture of it but I also couple the letters with toys that start with that letter. For A I got out her toy airplane ext ext.
You can get these cheap foam letter puzzles at dollar general for a buck or so. If you are trying to put the puzzle back together your going to be sorely disappointed. I even have trouble getting the pieces in!! Instead I drew faces on them and we play with them they tell each other what letter they are she really likes them. The also stick to the walls of the bathtub nicely when wet.
I found these alphabet pretzels at our local Mennonite store. I pluck out the letter of the day for some fun munching at snack time.
That's about it so far. Hope this gives you some new ideas. I get so bored doing the same stuff all the time. If you have other ideas leave them in the comments bellow.
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Love the contact paper idea...genius! We've been working hard at letter recognition. This week we've been enjoying Dr Suess's ABC book and matching animals with their beginning letters. I recently pinned an idea I'm anxious to try...finding letters on a chalkboard and then using a spray bottle of water to erase them. You'll have to let me know where the Mennonite store is...between the Lucky Charm Marshmallows and the pretzels...it sounds wonderful!
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