Dear Parents.
This week the
children will learn about sea animals. They will have to learn a set of words,
please practice this vocabulary at home,
Sea, ocean,
fish, shark, dolphin, whale,
octopus,
jelly fish, sea turtle, sea horse, starfish and, shell.
In language
the students will learn words that start with the letter B.
Bus, ball,
bear, bird, bee, baby, book, balloon, block, and, button.
We found
these fun games to practice the letters and their corresponding sounds with
your little ones. Have fun!
This page is full of ideas for
learning the alphabet, as well as for playing alphabet games. Ideas
range from learning and recognizing numbers and letters, to practicing
alphabetical order and expanding vocabulary, so you should find something
appropriate for all ages.
Use our alphabets in scrapbooks
Use them to decorate your scrapbook pages, or spell out your child's name on a school folder or workbook or file.
Use them to decorate your scrapbook pages, or spell out your child's name on a school folder or workbook or file.
Make door signs
Children love to mark their own territory with their name on their bedroom door! Depending on age they can perhaps color and cut their own sign, which can then be laminated for durability if you wish.
Children love to mark their own territory with their name on their bedroom door! Depending on age they can perhaps color and cut their own sign, which can then be laminated for durability if you wish.
Make key rings, satchel tags
Print and laminate your child's initial, make a hole and attach to a key ring. Or use a ribbon or string to decorate a school bag or satchel so that your child will easily identify it.
Print and laminate your child's initial, make a hole and attach to a key ring. Or use a ribbon or string to decorate a school bag or satchel so that your child will easily identify it.
Decorate bulletin boards
Teachers will come up with all sorts of ideas for using the alphabets on bulletin boards and around the classroom.
Teachers will come up with all sorts of ideas for using the alphabets on bulletin boards and around the classroom.
Learning the alphabet
Print out our alphabets and display it where little ones will see it all the time! You may want to choose lower case letters for the UK, as most children are introduced to these first. Go through the alphabet regularly, pointing to the letters and saying the sounds they make; of course you can also sing the alphabet song!
Print out our alphabets and display it where little ones will see it all the time! You may want to choose lower case letters for the UK, as most children are introduced to these first. Go through the alphabet regularly, pointing to the letters and saying the sounds they make; of course you can also sing the alphabet song!
Alphabet race
Print out some of our alphabet cards and lay them out in a row - either alphabetically, or randomly. Have a counter for each player and a dice. Put the counters at the beginning of the row and let the youngest child roll and move their counter the appropriate number of spaces. Depending on the age of the child, you can adapt the game in many ways:
Print out some of our alphabet cards and lay them out in a row - either alphabetically, or randomly. Have a counter for each player and a dice. Put the counters at the beginning of the row and let the youngest child roll and move their counter the appropriate number of spaces. Depending on the age of the child, you can adapt the game in many ways:
- when you land on a letter, you say the sound
that the letter makes or move back x number of spaces
- when you land on a letter, you say the name of
that letter or move back
- say a word which begins (or ends) with the
letter you have landed on, or move back
- say a noun, adjective, verb, adverb etc which
begins with the letter you have landed on, or move back
The winner is the first to reach the end of the row! This game is also
very adaptable for different ages, as you can assign each child a task
appropriate to their age and skill.
Alphabet (file folder) anagram game
Cut out one of the alphabets and place them in a never-ending path or circle, like a board game. You can place them in random or alphabetical order, and either stick them to the inside of a file folder so that you can use them again, or just place them down on a surface so that you can vary the game each time. Provide each child with a counter and a piece of paper and pencil. The children choose a letter and place their counter on it, writing the letter on their piece of paper. Now take it turns to roll one or two dice and move around the board. Wherever your counter lands, write down that letter on your paper. The first child to find a three-letter word using their letters wins. Older children can play with four or five letter words. You can also print out extra copies of the vowels and most popular consonants and use more than one of them on your "board".
Cut out one of the alphabets and place them in a never-ending path or circle, like a board game. You can place them in random or alphabetical order, and either stick them to the inside of a file folder so that you can use them again, or just place them down on a surface so that you can vary the game each time. Provide each child with a counter and a piece of paper and pencil. The children choose a letter and place their counter on it, writing the letter on their piece of paper. Now take it turns to roll one or two dice and move around the board. Wherever your counter lands, write down that letter on your paper. The first child to find a three-letter word using their letters wins. Older children can play with four or five letter words. You can also print out extra copies of the vowels and most popular consonants and use more than one of them on your "board".
Alphabet scramble
Print out a set of alphabet cards and choose a combination which makes a word appropriate for your child's age. Scramble them up and have the child put them in the right order. You can make this game more energetic by "hiding" the cards around the room and telling the child how many cards he has to find. It is also a fun team game: use two different sets of alphabet cards and the kids will have great fun running around each other trying to find where their cards are hidden without giving away cards to the other team!
Print out a set of alphabet cards and choose a combination which makes a word appropriate for your child's age. Scramble them up and have the child put them in the right order. You can make this game more energetic by "hiding" the cards around the room and telling the child how many cards he has to find. It is also a fun team game: use two different sets of alphabet cards and the kids will have great fun running around each other trying to find where their cards are hidden without giving away cards to the other team!
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