Touch and Tell
Standard: W 2
Materials: socks, paper, pencils, small
unusual items (Scruffy, dry dog
food,
hair bow, baby toy, bubble wrap, seasonal objects, etc.)
Directions: Place small objects in the
socks. Children choose a sock,
feel it,
and
then write a description of what they think is in the sock.
Hint! Use
one sock for younger children.
Number socks for older
students
so they can write down what they think is in each sock.
I “Tin” Make
Words
Standard: RF 2c, L 2d
Materials: magnetic letters, mint tin or
cookie tin, paper, pencils
Directions: Place magnetic letters that can be
used to make a word family
in the tin. For example: o, p, t,
m, h, c, b. Add a list of words
that can be made from the letters in the tin. (hop, mop, top,
cop, pop, bop) Children
reproduce the words on the lid of
the
tin and read them. You could also
ask them to write the
words.
More! Put
several vowels and consonants in the tin and challenge the
children
to make all the words they can with the letters.
Standard: Geometry
– compose shapes
Materials: crayons, paper
Directions: Make
a very small shape (triangle, square, trapezoid, half-circle, etc.) in the
center of the paper. Children take
a different color of crayon and go around it, making it a little larger. Continue using different colors of
crayons and making the object a little larger until it completely fills the
page.
Hint! You could prepare these ahead or let
the children create their own small shapes in the middle of the paper.
