Playing games with letters makes practicing so much more fun--especially when kids get a chance to move and learn at the same time! That's why we love these lower case letter games so much. A couple of years ago my sister sent my kids a set of red and a set of pink lowercase letter cards. She made them by printing each lower case letter on pink and red paper. Then, being the superstar that she is, she cut them into heart shapes and even … [Read more...]
Move and Learn Activities for Kids
My kids learn best when they are active. Getting up and moving motivates kids to practice new skills and helps them to better retain the information. Plus, it's also lots of fun! Hands on : as we grow and The Pleasantest Thing and I are teaming up to bring Move and Learn! activities each week as part of a new series. To kick things off we are sharing move and learn activities from all over the web for each age group and I am focusing on active … [Read more...]
Gross Motor Phonics Game: Walk the Word
Kindergarten readiness skills include letter recognition, phonemic awareness, and phonics skills. If your child can already recognize letters and can hear and say letter sounds then you may be wondering what types of phonics activities you should be doing with him. The truth is that you don't really need to do anything other than reading together every day, but if your child is ready to start reading playing phonics games can be both fun and … [Read more...]
Alphabet Activities for Preschool: Heart Puzzles
Today I am teaming up with +Jamie Reimer from hands on: as we grow and +Jackie Higgins from Ready Set Read for a Valentine's Day for Kids Google Plus Hangout! We'll be sharing Valentine's Day themed letter activities for preschoolers--it will be so much fun! It will air LIVE both here and on my G+ profile page at 3pm EST today. But no worries if you miss it--you can check back to either place anytime you want to watch the video! As you can see … [Read more...]
Practice Questioning with a Question Ball
Good readers need to be able to recall and make sense of, or comprehend, what they read. One of the best ways to increase comprehension in readers of any age is with the Questioning Strategy. In order to better understand the text kids learn how to create teacher-like questions about what they have read. Sounds simple, right? All it takes is practice! This is where the Question Ball comes in! How to use a Question Ball to increase reading … [Read more...]
Activities for Birds by Kevin Henkes
The author for this month's Summer Virtual Book Club for Kids is Kevin Henkes! (amazon affiliate link) We read lots of Kevin Henkes books this month and especially enjoyed the book Birds, which is beautifully illustrated by Laura Dronzek. The book may be simple, but it packed full of fun learning opportunities. In the story Henkes talks about what birds look like, what they do and what they could do. In the story Henkes talks about what … [Read more...]
Create an Alphabet Puppet Theater
We had a ton of fun with July's Summer Virtual Book Club for Kids' author Audrey Wood. And yes, I know it's already August. Better late than never! There are so many great books by Audrey Wood and her husband Don, but we became obsessed with the series of books based on the alphabet that she did with her son Bruce. Alphabet Adventure, Alphabet Mystery, and Alphabet Rescue follow the adventures of a set of precocious lowercase letters. In the … [Read more...]
Colorlicious Color Game
This month's challenge for The Little Book Adventure was to create a game based on a book. When I explained it to my 6 year old she immediately said, "Oh, let's do a game for Pinkalicious!" They decided that they wanted to make a game where the players pretended to eat food and then turned the color of the food. So that's what we did! They collected food in different colors and we made a color die to roll to decide which food to eat. To make the … [Read more...]
