Walk a Letter
Why:
Children often are eager to learn about letters so they can use those letters in their everyday activities. You can increase children's understanding of a letter's features and the way in which it is formed through this motor activity. Reinforcing letter concepts will help them identify and write letters.
Materials:
Children often are eager to learn about letters so they can use those letters in their everyday activities. You can increase children's understanding of a letter's features and the way in which it is formed through this motor activity. Reinforcing letter concepts will help them identify and write letters.
Materials:
- masking tape
- alphabet cards with the letters of your child's name and a few others
- Invite your child to choose one or two letters from the collection of cards. Ask this child to identify the letter(s) they have chosen. Talk about each letter's features. Yes, this is an N. It has three straight lines.
- Explain to your child that you will use the masking tape to make a large version of the letter on the floor. Ask your child to assist you in creating the masking-tape letter.
- Next, invite them to move along the tape. Think of various ways for your child to move along the lines. Can you walk along the line with one foot in front of the other?
- Continue the activity by creating additional letters. Each time you add a letter, prompt your child to identify it and talk about its features.
- Invite your child to move creatively along the various letters. Continue the activity for as long as they are interested.
Preschool Standards addressed through this activity:
4. Demonstrates Traveling Skills
5. Demonstrates Balancing Skills
15c. Notices and Discriminates Smaller and Smaller Units of Sound
16a. Identifies and Names Letters
16b. Uses Letter-sound Knowledge
4. Demonstrates Traveling Skills
5. Demonstrates Balancing Skills
15c. Notices and Discriminates Smaller and Smaller Units of Sound
16a. Identifies and Names Letters
16b. Uses Letter-sound Knowledge
_Activity courtesy to: Teaching Strategies Gold: Early Childhood inc