Letter Bags and
Boxes
Standards: RF 1d, L 1a
Materials: sacks from restaurants or
cardboard food boxes, foam letters
or
magnetic letters, paper, pencils
Directions: Place letters in sacks and
boxes. Children take out the
letters
and
match them up with those on the bag or box. Can they
write
the letters that they know?
More! Older
students could make a list of words or parts of speech
they
find on the bags and boxes.
Singular and
Plural
Standard: L 1c
Materials: Unifix cubes, sticky dots,
marker
Directions: Put sticky dots on the Unifix
cubes. Write letters on the
dots.
Make
simple CVC words with the letters.
Children read the
word
and then add an
“s” to make the plural form. Can
they say
or
write a sentence using the singular and plural form?
Phoneme Beads
Standard: RF 2b, L 2d
Materials: pipe cleaner, beads, paper,
pencil
Directions: String 5 beads on a pipe cleaner,
knotting the ends so the beads
don’t
fall off. Cut out pictures of
objects that are CVC words
and
number them. For example: 1. dog, 2. rat, 3. pig, 4. bus,
5.
net,
etc. Children slide a bead for
each phoneme they hear in
the
word. Next, they draw a blank line
for each sound they
hear. Finally, they write the letter for each
sound on a line and
read
the word.
More! Use
more challenging pictures and words for older students.
Show
Me the Money
Standards: Counting and Classifying
Materials: coin purse, real or pretend
coins
Directions: Have children sort the coins that
are alike. Which one has the
greatest amount? Smallest amount?
More! Take
a file folder and divide it into 8 sections. Cut a toy
or
other object out of a magazine and write a price by
each one. (Vary the amount to the counting ability.) Children count
out the appropriate number of coins for each object.