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