WEEK OF THE LETTER M
Make a list of "m" words. Print it and hang it in a prominent spot.
Look up at the sky. Do you see a full moon?
Move like a monkey.
Drink you milk, please.
Count the coins in mommy's purse.
March to your favorite music.
GENERAL LITERACY ACTIVITIES:
Ask your child to name the letters in traffic or store signs.
Have your child point to a particular letter in a story; on the page you are
reading.
Use magnetic letters on the refrigerator to review the alphabet and its
sounds.
Write letters with paint, chalk, shaving cream, grits, or sand.
Read and discuss alphabet books with your chld.
Play games with alphabet cards or magnetic letters.
Invite your child to find a particular letter in the headlines of the
newspaper.
Help your child build letters with playdough.
Invite your child to locate letters on food labels, cereal boxes, etc.
PERSONAL INFORMATON:
Your child is responsible for their personal information:
Birthday
Telephone number
Street Address, Town, State & Country.
You can help your child memorize these important facts as you drive
around town.
MATH:
1-20:
You can help your child develop an awareness of numbers all around
them. Play games identifying numbers 0 - 20 in your home,
at the store, driving around town, etc. They can create numerals using
playdough, yarn, toothpicks, etc.
Skip Counting:
Children are learning to skip count by 2 (to 12), by 5 (to 50), by 10 (to
100).
Number Stories:
You can help your child create number stories using household items;
for example, 3 buttons and 2 legos equals 5 toys. When they can
create a number story and tell you about it, encourage them to write it
out 3+2=5. You can also do this with subtraction. They are responsible for
number facts through 10.
Patterns:
Help them find patterns in their environment and/or create patterns
with household items. Begin with an AB pattern then increase number
and design: ABC, ABB, ABA, etc.
LANGUAGE ARTS:
Play games identifying the letters of the week and/or the
letters in their names in your home, at the store, driving around town.
Help them identify beginning sounds as we acquire more letter friends
by playing games, for example, "I spy something that begins with..."
Make a list of words that begin with each week's letter friend. Count the
words and save the list. Repeat this activity each week and see which
letter friend wins!
Find items that end with a particular letter sound.
Make letters (& numbers) out of playdough, yarn, cereal bits...
Make up rhyming pairs - even nonsense words work as long as they
rhyme!
FINE MOTOR DEVELOPMENT:
Acitivities done on a vertical plane will help develop fine motor muscles
(refrigerator, easel). Play with playdough, legos, string beads or cereal,
use tweezers or clasping clothespins to pick up cotton balls and fill a
jar.
GAMES:
Play board games and/or card games with them. Teach them
checkers, chess, battleship, etc., games that require a higher level of
thinking.
Above all, make this all fun and interesting for them. And last but not
least--READ TOGETHER--Get in the habit of reading together every
night.
