Magnetic Letters

We have a TON of magnetic letters!  Grab a cookie sheet and you are ready to begin!

L picked out the letters and put them in order.  Since we have so many, next time I will sort out one set of letters-it took him a while to dig through our stash.

 

Magnetic Letter Preschool Activities:  Spell your first name, or other simple words like mom, dad, dog, cat, or non-sense words CVC words (consonant vowel consonant).  If you have a ton of magnetic letters like we do, have your child do a letter match on the cookie sheet. 

Magnetic Letter Kindergarten Activities:  Spell your first and last name, spell your siblings' names, spell your parents' names, or sight words (do an internet search for kindergarten sight words).  Take it a step further and after your child has spelled words with the magnetic letters have him or her write them on a sheet of paper.  Make a word, write a word. 

Magnetic Letter Toddler Activities:  Putting the letters on the cookie sheet works their fine motor skills.  As your child puts the letter on the sheet you (the parent) say the name of the letter and have them repeat it.  If he/she doesn't repeat it right away, that's okay!  The more your child hears the name of the letter, the more he or she will remember it!  Keep it fun!

Simple Skills Activity

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L worked on 4 skills today:  cutting, patterning, letter order, and letter formation.

1) L cut strips of paper into small squares ( I had drawn lines on the paper for him to cut).
2) L chose a patter of blue, yellow, green and laid it out on the floor.
3) L glued the squares into his workbook (I helped him make the frame).
4) Together we wrote the letters in ABC order and glued the card in the frame.  This particular activity helps with the order of things.  He writes one letter, I write the next letter, and then he has to figure out what comes next. 

Letter Match-Up

Using the letter tiles from a previous activity I spread them out for L to match up.  The task was to match the orange letter to the green letter.

After working for a few minutes L seemed overwhelmed with all the letter tiles. So we decided to separate them into two piles.  Now he could see all the orange letters and all the green letters.   

After matching up all the letters, you can take it a step further and have your child put them in ABC order.

Eventually I will make lower case letter tiles and have L match up his capital letters to the lower case letters.  

This activity reinforces letter recognition.  If you complete the last step it also reinforces ABC order.

Letter Matching

For this activity I made a capital and lowercase letter chart in L's workbook:  3 columns and 9 rows.  In each box I wrote the letters in very small writing.  L will match up his letters from the stickers to the letters in the box. 

I also used my small stickers from a previous activity to write the letter sets.  I cut the sheet of stickers in half and used three halves for this activity.  This way he only had 9 letter sets at a time to work with (Aa-Ii, Jj-Rr, and Ss-Zz).

His dinosaur friend kept watch for him.

L working on matching his letters.  In the future I won't write the letters on the paper, but encourage him to figure out which letter comes next.  He still has to sing his ABC's a lot to figure out which letter comes next.  If working with his ABC's has taught him anything, it has at least taught him to say J-K-L-M-N-O-P (before those letters were unrecognizable).

All done!  He worked very hard on this and was proud of his work! 

Letter Matching

L is working on matching lower and upper case letters.

Materials:
1) 52 circle magnets
2) garage sale stickers
3) sharpie
4) cookie sheet


To Make:
1) write the upper case letters on one color of sticker and the lower case letters on another color of sticker
2) attach stickers to magnets
3) place magnets on tray

Match away!


L has learned most of the pairs but it helps him to sing the alphabet song as he does it.
This activity reinforces letter recognition and fine motor skills.

(Side note: After making this activity we learned the circle magnets were too strong and would either stick to each other or would flip over. If I were to change this activity I would attach the magnets to a different material-a clothespin or a wooden tile with the letters written on them. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but L got frustrated very easily with the magnets.)

ABC Order

L is working on putting his letters in alphabetical order.

Materials: small sticky labels, marker, paper
To Make: Write the letters on the labels-make sure you mix them up.
Variation: Use lower case letters, or a mixture of both


L looks for the next letter and sticks it to the paper.


Easy and fun!
This activity reinforces letter recognition.