![]() ![]() Multiplying fractions? Thesis statements? Identifying the author’s purpose? Those I can handle. This is exactly why, when it came time to choose a focus for my career in education, I opted for the upper elementary grades. Research has proven again and again that children who grasp early literacy skills by the end of first grade become strong readers for the rest of their lives, while those who struggle early on continue to do so throughout their schooling. Get your free printable letters and pictures in the link below.It’s no secret that teaching a child to read is a pretty big deal. If she didn’t remember the letter’s name, I reminded her.Īnd there you have it! Stay tuned for letter Q. My Two matched each one to the correct spot on the grid. Then I wrote the same letters on purple post-it notes. I drew a grid on paper and labeled it with letters we’ve learned. While we were at it, we made a color pattern too. The egg carton trick worked! She caught on to this right away. I told her we’d make a pattern of BIG, little, BIG, little. So I grabbed an egg carton and our pom poms. Somewhere I read that using an egg carton can be helpful when introducing patterns for the first time. We haven’t done a lot of math activities in this series because my Two isn’t ready for too many math concepts.īut I thought we could try very simple patterns for letter P week. Then my daughter grabbed the stampers and made more of each letter on the play dough. I rolled out some colorful play dough and stamped each one with a letter stamp (see the letter B in the upper right corner). Since we didn’t get do whole alphabet activities for letter O, I was sure to get a bunch in this week. Then she helped me glue on the pink triangles. Another day, when it had dried, she drew pupils on the circles I cut out, drew dots on the nose, and a line for the mouth. What a cute project for a toddler! My Two painted the paper plate one day. My Two isn’t ready to use strategy (or even to count four circles in a row), but she still had fun taking turns naming and dotting letters with Do-a-Dot markers. ![]() It’s a Four-in-a-Row game that I created at a reader’s request. My Two drove each car into the correct parking spot. Then I labeled toy cars with the same letters using painter’s tape. I wrote the names of letters we’ve learned on a simple grid that I drew on a piece of cardstock. Rule number one of Letter of the Week with a toddler: Don’t push it. Afterward, I asked her to name each picture herself and cover each one as she named it. My daughter covered each one with a poker chip as I named it. I printed our letter P picture cards (get them in the download at the end of this post) and named each picture. Such a great way to build vocabulary and reinforce the letter’s sound! I usually ask my daughter to help me read them by naming the pictures. Here’s another set of free books I created a couple of years ago. My Two and Five were both busy with the play dough for at least 30 minutes. Of course we needed to make a new batch of play dough for letter P week! I used this recipe and added mint extract to make it peppermint play dough. I clipped clothespins to several pom poms and invited my Two to dip them in paint and make prints. We pulled out our big stash of pom poms and did some simple painting. Thankfully we have another two-year-old who loves them almost as much! ![]() That two-year-old is six years old now, and a fluent reader. It worked! He carried the books around in a little tin lunchbox and asked me to read them many, many times. In fact, I created them even before I began blogging, because I wanted to help my song-loving 2-year-old learn the alphabet. Several years ago I created these rhyming letter books. Here’s letter P! Letter P Activities for Toddlers Usually we do activities 2-3 days a week. ![]() Or maybe it’s a week of a teething baby, older kids home sick from school, or just a tired mama.īecause life happens, we don’t do Letter of the Week every day. You know how it goes … I need to catch up on housework, or I need to do some blog work, or I decide to focus more on teaching my preschooler. She asks for “tivities” almost every day, but we aren’t able to get to our activities as often as I’d like. Have you been following along as my two-year-old learns the alphabet? We hope you find some fun activities to try in this collection of letter P activities for toddlers! ![]()
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