Recognizing & Building with Letter Blocks

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With this missive artifact activity, I built connected George’s existent cognition of letters and stuck them into thing helium ever loves! Blocks!

Last week for the Summer Reading Series with A Mom with a Lesson Plan (she’s sharing a book study template today!), I shared the opening signifier of introducing letters with a amusive and magical painting!

This week, we are progressing to the adjacent signifier of learning letters. Its much for recognizing the letters and becoming much acquainted with them, labeling them erstwhile they can, but not necessary! This is a superb thought I grabbed from Allie of No Time For Flash Cards erstwhile she made missive blocks utilizing tape.

Label a tub of blocks with letters.

Since I don’t person the ample blocks similar Allie has, I couldn’t acceptable a ‘tape letter’ onto my blocks… truthful I recovered a antithetic way.

I created a papers with the letters of the alphabet successful big, bold letters (and spaces successful betwixt for country to cut). I besides included extras of letters that I knew George already knew. My kids thin to larn the missive their sanction starts with first, arsenic good arsenic M for Mom and D for Dad. George is besides getting the bent of L and H for his brothers’ names too. I added an other 4 oregon 5 of each of those successful my papers arsenic good arsenic a fewer other A’s and B’s due to the fact that they’re bully starting letters too. (I created a papers to stock with you too! If you privation to alteration it up to adhd letters your kid already knows, you tin “Save a Copy” and edit away!)

I printed retired 2 copies of the letters and chopped them each apart, keeping the copies separated.

I taped 1 acceptable of the letters onto large woody blocks (affiliate link) and the different acceptable I dumped into a ample container. A vessel would enactment too. I decided connected the ample instrumentality due to the fact that it was amusive for George to instrumentality his manus heavy into and propulsion retired a letter!

After the prep enactment of getting the letters and blocks ready, it took maine astir 20 minutes, I called George to commencement the activity. (I know, I don’t usually prep overmuch for activities, but I deliberation these missive blocks volition beryllium utilized for aggregate learning opportunities with some George and Henry, truthful I deliberation it’ll beryllium worthy the clip I enactment in.)

George pulled a missive retired of the instrumentality and looked astatine the letter. If helium knew it he’d archer maine it, if not, he’d inquire “Help!” and I’d archer him the missive and inquire if helium could find 1 similar it successful the missive blocks to lucifer it.

To reenforce learning the letter, erstwhile helium recovered the missive artifact that matched the missive helium chose, I’d inquire him again, “What’s that missive connected the block?”

Build a operation with the missive blocks!

Add the matched missive artifact to a tower!

After a fewer blocks, I started playing with him.

But George wanted to gully the missive retired of the instrumentality for me. So we took turns uncovering the missive artifact and adding it to the tower. Building a ample masterpiece together.

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