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Fun with Literacy and Letters for the Spring and Summer!

It is starting to feel like summer our there! With the last two months of school ahead, I wanted to share some ideas with you regarding literacy and your child. Our brains are muscles – they need exercise to keep them in shape. Your child has learned so much these months of school regarding letter names, letter sounds, rhyming, and vocabulary. It would be such a waste to let all that knowledge get dusty over the summer. There are some fun activities and manipulatives you can do and use with your child so that they can retain this knowledge. These are all things you can do throughout the summer to keep your child’s brain “wired” for letters sounds and early literacy.

Manipulatives:

• Bathtub letters (Toys R Us or Amazon)
• Magnetic letters for the refrigerator or dishwasher (Lakeshore Learning Center or Toys R Us or even office supply stores) **NOT the electronic ones!
• Sidewalk Chalk (any toy store – fun for drawing & using your imagination!)
• Playdoh (toy stores and Target – fun to make letter shapes and for creativity and to flex those little hand and finger muscles so they’ll be ready to hold a pencil or crayon)

Activities:

• Things that start with the letter “A”, “M”, etc.
• Things that start with the sound of “a”, “l”, etc.
• Rhyming words
• At the grocery store play…

• Can you find a fruit, a cereal, a drink, etc. that starts with “B”?

 For younger children, can you find a banana, a potato, cheese, etc.?

• In the car you can play the letter game – look for things out your window that begin with the letters of the alphabet.

Good Books:

• Eric Carle books are great for patterning and vocabulary
• Dr. Seuss books are great for rhymes
• Any alphabet book
• Piggy and Elephant books by Mo Willems are great beginner readers – they are FUNNY!

Enjoy these last months of school and have fun with your child and literacy this summer!

Melanie Martin,
Creative School Librarian

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