- Hinsdale Central School
- Extra Practice
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Here are some activities that might be helpful to start your child with identifying, naming, and writing letters and numbers! Good luck and have funFlash cards-
- make both upper and lowercase letter sets and numbers to 20 on index cards.
- Pull out letters in your child's name; once they have those mastered add more.
- show them the letter card, if they are having trouble tell them the name of the letter and have them repeat several times out loud.
Memory Matching Games-
- Use uppercase and lowercase letter or number sets.
- Use only 6-8 matches at a time
- Flip cards over and have child match to identical number or letter, or have them match upper to lowercase or number to quantity set.
- Have child identify what they turned over number, quantity, letter, and whether upper or lowercase.If they make a match they keep them if not they turn them back over
- Player two repeats directions above
- The person with the most matches wins!
Shaving cream or Playdough
- While in the bathtub have your child write letters on the wall. Or you can write the letter or number and have your child identify it.
- Roll playdough into long snake like pieces and have child form different letters and numbers.
Sound Sort
- Mix up 2-3 sets of pictures (from magazines or internet) that have the same beginning sounds, then have child sort pictures by their same beginning sound.