Name Snowmen

This was a simple but fun handwriting/art project we did in January to practice the girls' names. This was mostly for Little Miss Middle who is really close to mastering her name. But all the girls had fun doing this one and it was a fun addition to the schoolroom during the dreary and LONG winter.

Rockin' The Dollar Tree

 

This Letter Recognition work is brought to you almost entirely by the Dollar Tree (and a little work by yours truly) These awesome see-through alphabet tiles are made from the flexible cutting mats that Dollar Tree (DT) sells in their kitchen utensil section. I cut each one into quarters and used a Sharpie--also available at DT--to draw on some capital ABCs.  They come in a 2-pack so I needed 4 packages to make the whole alphabet. 

The cute buttons were bought at Michaels in their dollar bins so for $4 we got about 100 bright little buttons. Not bad.

My kiddos use these letter tiles for lots of things--forming letters with playdoh, using other seasonal materials to form letters (acorns, confetti, small leaves, flowers etc.) using them to spell out words, tracing them on the light table or window to practice writing etc. 

So for a grand total of about 10 bucks we got what I thought was a LOT of materials that are fun and versatile--I try never to have toys or learning materials that can only be used in ONE way. My kids are pretty used to the phrase, "What else do you think we can do with that?"

Fall Letter Recognition Works

October 2013: We had a letter matching game for each of the girls that kept them busy for days and wasn't too difficult as far as prep goes. The simpler version was simply fall leaf shapes with the capital letters on them. These had to be put in alphabetical order. Simple, but challenging enough at first.

The second set was a set of leaf & pumpkin shapes that were both upper and lower case letters. These had to be put in alphabetical order and then the lower case matched to its upper case letter. This was pretty challenging at first but both girls managed it after a few tries and it really helped with their lower case letter recognition.