Interactive Learning Activities! We have learned so much this year and I’m so proud of everything our children have learned so far. Over these next few weeks, students will be out of their regular learning routine, and so it is VERY important to continue to review what we learned, while still giving time for our littles ones

to play, and feel some sense of consistency Here are a few games/activities that will help your little one to keep their skills sharp, while having fun! I have also provided a list of helpful

learning websites, songs and journal writing sentence frames.

Letter Sound Freeze Dance Movement makes learning fun! Just write letters all over the

driveway. Then, play music, and have your little one dance

around. When you stop the music, they must “freeze,” and

then you yell out a sound (Example: /a!/). Your little one will

need to run and find the matching letter (a). If they are

correct, resume the music, and repeat

Nature Letters Go outside and have your little one build letters with leaves, twigs, or

pinecones!

Kick a Sound! Get 5-10 paper plates, and write one letter behind each one. Flip

them upside down and place them on different areas of the grass.

Ask your child to try their best to kick the ball towards one of

the plates. Each time the ball makes contact with one of the

plates, lift it up and ask your child to think of 3 three words that

begin with that letter sound (Example: B---ball, bat, boat). For

each correct response, they get one point! To challenge your child

more, ask them to give you three words that end with that letter.

Flash Light Word/Letter Hunt

Hide various letters/sight words around the house and give your child a

flash light. Get ready, set…and TURN OFF THE LIGHTS! Have your child

read each sound/word as they find them.

ABC Sign Language

See it, Say it, Sign it Song (Jack Hartmann): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1blVh1ZQM&t=1s

Review letters sounds and/or practice spelling out sight words with Sign Language!

Disappearing Letters/Numbers Pre-write different numbers/letters with chalk,

and give your child a paint brush with water. Ask

your child to make certain letters/letter sounds,

“disappear.” With each letter

sound/letter/number you ask your child to find,

they will practice tracing that letter/number,

while making it disappear

Treasure Hunt Hide the alphabet throughout your house or in the yard! Ask your child to find them all,

then put them all in order! You can do the same with numbers. Hide the numbers and ask

them to place them all in order If your child is advanced, hide different sight words and

ask them to create sentences with the word hidden!

Bath Time Phonics! Write letters on ping-pong balls and place them in the water. Depending on

your little one’s abilities, ask them to fish for the letter sound that you call

out. It’s a great way to make bath time fun and review!

Sorting Sounds Draw circles on the ground or on a large piece of paper, or get different baskets/bowls

(whatever is available), and write a letter on the inside. Have your child go find objects

around the house that begin that letter sound. This is a fun way to help them practice

identifying beginning sounds in words.

Popsicle Letter Building

Our students learn best by doing. When your child is engaging their mind,

eyes and body, they will be more likely to internalize new concepts. To

review different letters in an interactive way, have your child build them

with POPSICLE sticks! Simply say a letter name/sound, or show a letter

card, and ask your child to build that letter with the popsicle sticks.

Q-Tip Letter Writing

Practice writing letters with Q-tips! Simply pre-write the letters on

a piece of paper and have your little one trace over the letters with

a Q-tip and paint.

Ice Cube Tray Letter Matching To review the letters and practice identifying letters

in a different/hands-on way, grab a plastic ice tray,

sharpie and small pebbles/gems. Write the different

letters in each rectangle and the matching letters on

the pebbles/gems. Ask your child to match the

letters. Ask them to say the letter name, the letter

sound, and show you the Zoophonics motion.

Hopscotch Letter Game To review the letters AND exercise, create a hopscotch

challenge for your little one! All you need is sidewalk chalk, and

your child can name the letter and say the sound as they hop to

each letter. If you do not have a place to create a hopscotch

court, you can use stickers, taped construction paper squares,

and/or use blue painters tape to create a hopscotch court. This

will help your child to practice their letters & sounds AND help

them to burn off some energy ;)

Post-it Match Letter Game: To review the uppercase and lowercase letters, create

a long strip of lowercase letters and write the

matching uppercase letters on post-its. Ask your child

to match the uppercase letter with the lowercase

letter and ask them to say the sound as they do so. To

make it more challenging, write the letters OUT OF

ORDER, so that your child has to think more carefully

about which letter it is.

Popsicle Stick MatchGreat for Fine Motor

Strengthening To review the letters and strengthen your child’s fine motor skills,

you can do this fun insertion activity. All you need is a small

cardboard box, popsicle sticks and alphabet stickers. If you don’t

have alphabet stickers, you can simply write the letter on the

popsicle sticks with a marker. Ask your child to name the uppercase

or lowercase letter and then name the sound.

Alphabet Tic-Tac-Toe All you need is a piece of paper or dry erase board, and fill the

squares with different letters. Before your child can mark “X,” or

“O,” ask them to say the name of the letter and then the sound of

the letter.

Playdough Letter Maze To review the letters and strengthen your child’s fine motor skills, you can have

your child use a marble to roll out different letters, shapes and numbers in

playdough

Don’t Break the Ice Review Game If you have this game at home, you could easily use post-it

notes with letters or simple sight words to cover each ice cube.

Every time your child is about to hit a cube, ask them to say

the letter name/sound/sight word. This is also excellent for

their hand-eye coordination and fine motor skills

Parking Lot Review Write different sight words on different places over a large piece of

paper. The goal is to cover up all the sight words with a given object,

such as hot wheels, legos, cups. Ask your child to read/spell the word as

they cover it up.

STOMP the Letters! Sponges are cheap, easy to find and reusable Simply

write different letters on each sponge and lay them

out in a line (about a step apart). Your little one will

need to say the letter and stomp on it before they can

stomp to the next letter. It is insanely engaging for

your child AND will help to burn some extra energy

This could be used for number review too!

Sight Word Notecard Building Activity To review sight-words in a more hands-on way, you could have your children build

them with note cards. All you have to do is write one letter on each card, mix them

up and then give your student the chance to spell out the word.

Sight Word/Alphabet Puzzle Match To review different letters and/or sight-words, you could have your

children read them and match them with puzzle pieces.

Playdough Writing with Toothpicks To review different letters, sight words and phonics skills, have

your child flatten a piece of play doh. Then, with a toothpick

or skewer, ask your child to write different sight words or

letters (uppercase/capital or lowercase) in the PlayDoh.

Kiddos can also form long snakes with the PlayDoh and then

build the words with PlayDoh.

Rainbow Letter Hop

To review different letters or sight words in a physically engaging way, try playing this

game! All you need is a die cube and colored paper. Simply write one letter on each colored

shape and place them in an arch. Have your child go to the first letter and say its name and

sound. Then, have them roll a die, count the correct number of spots and hop to the

correct letter. Ask for that letter name and sound and repeat, until you reach the end of

the “rainbow!” This game is very short, so you can play several times.

Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (CVC) Word Blending

To practicing blending CVC words endings, you could get a strip of

paper and write different endings such as: –an, –am, -at, en, eb, -in, -it,

-ot, -op, -um, -un, etc. Then stick a few post-its with different

beginning letters (example: r, b, c, etc.), and encourage your child to

point and look at each sound and blend it together. For example, /c/

/a/ /n/can! /r/ /a/ /n/ran!

CVC Blending Flipbook

A hands-on and easy way to practice blending simple CVC words

is to practice changing beginning/ending sounds in words. This

helps your child to see/hear certain sound patterns. All you

need is a small notebook. Simply cut the pages into thirds and it

will be easy to create different CVC words (cap, tap, gap/ cat,

sat, mat, etc.)

A Race to Fill Up!

Each player gets one cup. Players take turns to roll the die/dice, and must place that

corresponding amount of marbles/cubes in their cup. Example: Player One rolls 7, so Player

One will put 7 marbles in their cup. Player Two rolls 3, so Player Two puts 3 marbles in

their cup. The first player to fill up their cup wins!

Journal Writing

If you would like your little one to continue practice writing, below are a few sentence

frames we used in class to get them started. I encourage your little one to do a journal

writing 5 times a week.

I like_______.

I like the_________.

I like to__________.

I see a___________.

I/She/We can____________.

The_________is_________.

It is _____________.

It has____________.

She/He likes the________.

He/She can see a _________.

He/She can see the________.

Learning Websites:

Technology is great, but please remember to limit their screen time! We want to give our

students lots of time to exercise, play and practice their social skills Starfall.com This website is FREE and is perfect to review letter names/sounds, and has

phonics-based interactive books for beginning readers, and books for students

who are already reading. It also has lots of games and songs.

ABCya- http://www.abcya.com/

This website is FREE and has lots of letter games (alphabet bingo, ABC

order, alphabet puzzles letter tracing and more!).

Education.com: https://www.education.com/games/preschool/

This website is FREE and offers math (counting, shapes, etc.) and phonics

games (rhyming, identifying letters, etc.).

Little Writer - The Tracing App (I-pad)

An interactive and FREE app Little Writer has fun tracing activities for

different letters and shapes.

Turtle Diary: https://www.turtlediary.com/games/phonics.html

To review different letters, sight words and phonics skills (rhyming word

pairs), this website has interactive games that are free and fun to play.

Mr. Nussbaum-Learning + Fun: http://mrnussbaum.com/prek/

National Geographic Kids: https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

This website has fantastic nonfiction resources and will foster your little

one’s curiosity.

Scholastic Book Activities: https://www.scholastic.com/parents/kids-activities-

andprintables/activities-for-kids.html

This website has lots of resources and summer crafts & activities for

families.

EPIC-Read Amazing Children’s Books: https://www.getepic.com/

Instant, unlimited access to 35,000 high-quality books and videos for kids for

only $7.99 a month.

Learning Songs

Alphabet Songs:

Who Let the Letters Out?-2:08 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWIzQcjML1

Barbara Milde Alphabet Song-4:16:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW7N64zsrs

See it, Say it, Sign it- 6:28:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP1blVh1ZQM

What Letter Is It?- 4:48: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwOQvh_mJ4w

Math Songs:

Numeral Writing Song- 2:35: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liKBXp5kdL8

Let's Get Fit: Count to 100-

2:40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TgLtF3PMOc

Numbers in the Teens-1:28:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5aYi3lkho

Shapes for Kids: 2D Shapes-

3:43: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beTDz9HSNOM

Color Songs:

Red- 1:26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMfkODJw30M

Orange- 1:39: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yRPzGaom_E

Yellow-2:18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTus18ko370

Green-1:24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dr1mvtUIwI

Blue- 1:26: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ILheTtuq4

Purple- 1:32: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkcICPEQVaY&t=25s

Black-1:53: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47o3b06-Xg

Brown-1:58: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CNGo7OAM0o

White-1:24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuSxTV4Q86U

Sight Word Songs:

I

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6rpYtVLKQ

a

like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJePmr-1tfY

the: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lcKwuKv8sI

can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YywiAe4kWJ4

am: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGYHDxmjqlQ

to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8mYY59kOSU

little: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iq2hFV57bQ&t=1s

for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HycESVrMsQ

in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgTp77xkmqM

it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqeOqtgkC-Q

on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVM4H7J6omw

my: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-UI_fSuhmI

has

be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiChA1YCx2k

he: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j01nQTtQSOE

she: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl2NszsDIqE