Letter F Curriculum - Letter of the Week
Friday, January 19, 2024
Object Baskets for Letters A to H
Sunday, November 29, 2015
What is an Object Basket
Assembling the Object Basket
I wanted to add sandpaper letters but mine is a DIY years ago and its incomplete. I plant to get a set this Christmas as gift to self LOL but still waiting for the discounted price (hoping!).
Object Baskets from Letters A to H
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Beginning Sounds Through Language Objects
Sunday, May 22, 2016
This week, Vito and I are exploring beginning letter sounds through objects we can find at home. This is very similar to the Alphabet Sort Montessori Inspired activity, but in our case we are not sorting the objects yet. What Vito and I are doing is to just name or identify the objects and match them to our control sheet.
FREE Beginning Letter Sound Posters and Cards (SAMPLER)
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Pumpkin Letter and Number Cards
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Learn to Write Letters for Preschoolers Using Sandpaper Letters
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Candy Corn Letter and Number Cards
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Collection of Farm Animal Activities for Toddlers (22 Months)
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FREE Pinecone Letter and Number Cards
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Easter Eggs Letter and Number Cards
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Halloween Themed Monster Letter and Number Cards
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Letter of the Week Curriculum (Letter B)
Saturday, November 13, 2021
Letter Z: Zoo Animal Activities
Saturday, October 3, 2015
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Vito is 22 months old.
Vito is currently obsessing over his Schleich zoo animals. I just started collecting these animal figures early this year as I can see that both of my boys can benefit from it. I decided to put together zoo-themed activities for the little Vito, an opportunity to learn and explore the letter ‘z’.
Dear Zoo Story Basket
Vito loves this Dear Zoo book! We read it over and over again each day, and he specifically loves opening and closing the flaps to discover the animal hidden in it.
Zoo Animal Tracks
My boys can’t get enough of playdough, and we used our Schleich animals to create beautiful tracks! It was a total hit!
Animal Skin Covers
And who wouldn’t love skin patterns! It amazes me how Vito can match the animals with its cover! I only prepared 6 of his favourite animals and he is working on them everyday. As we progress, I’ll add up some more to make it challenging for him.
Letter Z Craft
Our letter of the week (craft) is usually hanged in the wall for a week’s view (for recognition) LOL.
Animals Clean Up
Original plan was to wash and brush these animals. But it was cold and we couldn’t do it indoors so I ended up giving him the wipes instead. He enjoyed this!
Zoo Animals Matching Cards
Something that he do everyday as well, matching the figures with the cards! This activity is for object recognition, discrimination and exactness. You can download your FREE copy from here.
The images in the cards are from Schleich.
Letter Z Object Basket
Our object basket is typically for letter recognition and phonics sounds.
And that’s all about our fun adventure of learning the letter z sound and zoo animals. Stay tuned for our next letter sound of the week… something to do with autumn! And yes, please don’t forget to pin this for later!
Other letter sound we’ve done:
Dogs Breed Letter and Number Cards
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Letter ‘b’ Sound Activities
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Sorry, this has been a late post. I was busy for the past few days and could not find the time to share this.
So this is a continuation of our Letter Sound of the Week activities. Right after letter a, we moved on to letter b, just in time to feed Vito’s obsession of balls. It took us two weeks to finish this. And note that we don’t do this the whole day! It would only take about 10-15 minutes for each activity, excluding my preparation time of course. Sometimes, preparation times takes like forever, while the actual activity would last only a minute. That is, if my Vito doesn’t feel like doing it at all. So what I do is put the tray back in the shelf and try again the next day, when he’s in the mood.
Letter ‘b’ basket sound. Our basket contains a mini book of Dr. Seuss, given to us by Emirates, a block (soft block), and banana. What we do with this basket is that everyday, I would present it to him and mention all the name of the objects. We play it over and over so he will remember the words.
Note: The basket is really really helpful. I suggest that you should do this as well. Objects shouldn’t be fancy, just look around your house and see what you can find.
I later on added animal figures: bird and butterfly, our Playskool barrel , DIY sandpaper letter and Melissa and Doug Magnetic Letter.
Letter ‘b’ craft. This was a collaborative work for both Vito and Mavi. Xavi did all the scribbling in our letter, Mavi designed Vito’s hand prints for the butterfly’s wings.
Note: Since Vito can’t participate in this one yet, I love asking Mavi to show his brother how to do this. I think this is the best way of showing his little brother how to do things, like gluing and cutting. This is also a great activity for both brothers to bond.
Balls! This was Vito’s favourite object as of the moment and we’ve been playing balls whenever we can (both indoor and outdoors).
Note: Oh yeah, this has been a favourite toy and activity so far.
Eating and playing bananas. Again, I always use familiar objects for Vito whenever we do our letter sound of the week. Vito eats banana during breakfast so this wasn’t new to him. I let him eat on his own and give him fork so he can practise picking up the banana slices using a utensil. For the other tray, those are banana counters from Learning Resources. The object of this activity is 1:1 correspondence, that is putting a piece of banana in each hole (this is an ordinary ice tray). We count as we put the banana in place.
Note: Vito loves eating, and it is best to incorporate letter sound activities with food as this will help them familiarize with the sounds more easily.
Soft blocks play. We love these blocks!! These are soft blocks I got from Amazon last year. Vito loves to stack and squeeze them.
Note: I highly recommend these soft blocks. The colours are vibrant and aside from the ones I mentioned, Vito loves touching and feeling all those moulds on the sides.
Bird crafts. I realized that kids as young as 18 months, can now be exposed to crafts. This was an assisted activity. I placed glue on the bird’s wings and made Vito put the feathers on it. He loves touching the glue more than feeling the feathers.
Creating sound with bells. We started using my Vilac Rhythm Bells. At first he couldn’t make a sound, but finally created a soft tone when I showed him how to ring it. I also used this activity to introduce loud and soft sounds.
Bear colour sorting. Bear counters for colour sorting. I continually give Vito this kind of sorting activities to expose him to colours. He can identify objects, but it is still a hit or miss with colours.
The bear counters are from Learning Resources. You can also use buttons.
Books for letter ‘b’.
You can all these books from Book Depository as well. They ship for free anywhere!
We read the books every morning. Not all. Mostly we can read as much as three books but mostly two books in the morning and two books in the afternoon.
See these in action!
And that’s about it! I hope you enjoy this post as I love sharing these. Stay tuned for our letter ‘c’ in the next few weeks! Don’t forget to check our letter ‘a’ sound as well.
Oh and don’t forget to pin this activity, so you won’t forget it!
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Friday, August 19, 2011
These are the materials I made for my son to work for writing and practicing phonics. Every week we work on two letters based on our ramfbitg (red), cusnpolh (yellow) and dexqyjkvwz(blue) series. I got this idea from My Montessori Journey where she categorized her letter sounds by color codes.
Here I’m presenting the letter for M for it’s the beginning letter of my son’s name :)
Each set is comprised of:
- a color coded sound book (DIY)
- a letter builder made from foam sheets
- a letter builder control card
- an Itsy Bitsy book which I got from here
- lowercase tracing card from Kumon
- uppercase tracing card which is a DIY
- a lowercase sandpaper letter
Below is a closer look of what’s inside my sound booklet. Each booklet is made up of 4 pages with images inside that begins with the letter M. I don’t have specific order as to what we need to work on first. Sometimes my son and I would read the booklets then do the writing, or the other way around.
After we have worked on a pair of letters, we do some phonics exercises with our Alpha Phonics Boxes.
Language Learning Materials for Toddlers (with FREE Alphabet Reading Booklet)
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