Tuesday, August 20, 2013

thoughts on the ABC's

I wrote in my post about a possible schedule (I deleted that post because schedules just don't fit me) and doing one letter per week but when I think about it and look at different ideas on Pinterest I don't think that I want to do that. I remember learning my sign alphabet and when I learned it the first time (in grade school) I learned it in the correct order ABCDE.... and I could never spell anything quickly. Latter when I was trying to learn it again to use in real life (we had a neighbour who was deaf) I learned by spelling things around me such as, signs on a road trip. This way taught me to remember the letters without going through the entire alphabet. I would like to do our ABC learning as a whole instead of one letter at a time. It is how we have been learning till now and Zelda (3.5) is recognizing about 1/3 or the alphabet (my guess) And Zorro (2) knows O. This is without sitting down with the purpose of learning letters. I have been trying to spell out their names at different time such as in the sand when camping, or on pictures that they make.
The ABC games that I am interested in tend to use more then just one letter. I will be teaching both my 3.5 year old daughter and my 2 year old son at the same time so I need games that both of them can play and learn from at their own speed.
Ideas I found and like:
-Tape a letter on the floor and have them "trace" it by walking along the tape.
-Use foam letters from those puzzle mats. Call out a letter and have them jump on it.
-Hide small objects with letters on them around the room and have them find them. Talk about the letters they find and play with them when they have them all.
-Hang letters on a string with clothes pins. Do it together and talk about the letters you see. Could do Upper and Lower Case letters so that they can match them together.
-Have the letters of their names on paper, blocks, stones ect and have them put them in the correct order.
-Drawing letters in sensory materials

Most of these involve movement. I won't do all of our learning running around but with a 2 year old boy it is a pretty important part of learning... I hope to do some of the sitting down and learning activities with Zelda as well but they will not be the main focus of our time. Zorro will most likely just colour during those times.

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