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Robot Beginning Sounds Activity

March 23, 2016 • 8 Comments

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This week the Early Childhood Education team is exploring the theme of robots.  We have a super cute robot beginning sounds activity to compliment a brand-new book that we are sharing.  Read a fun book and build phonemic awareness.  Win! Win!

A beginning sounds activity with a robot theme. It pairs great with the book, Raybot.

Full Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links.  The publisher sent me a copy of Raybot.  All opinions expressed are my own.

The Book

Raybot by Adam Watkins has been very popular in my house.  My kids have been a bit obsessed with robots lately so this was a perfect fit. Raybot is a bit lonely and yearns for a friend.  He sets off on a journey to find a friend that barks.  He encounters lots of nice and helpful animals.  In the end, Raybot finds not one but two friends.

The Robot Beginning Sounds Activity

Materials needed: recycled craft items (containers, paper and boxes), aluminum foil, tape, pipe cleaners, scissors, hole punch and the free printable (see below)

beginning sounds activity pieces

  1. Make a robot from craft materials.  Let your imagination soar.  Add pipe cleaners for arms.
  2. Print the robot friends (some of the animals Raybot encounters in the book)  printable below.  Cut out each circle and punch a hole in each one.

DOWNLOAD THE ROBOT FRIENDS PRINTABLE

Now, it’s time to play.  Lay out all of the animal friends.  Say to your child, “Robot wants a friend who begins with the /b/ sound. Which friend does he/she want?”  Your child should look through all the pictures and find the animal that begins with the /b/ sound (bear) and hang that animal on the robot’s arm.  Continue to play until all the animals have been identified.

Check out the Early Education Team’s posts on robots for more fun early childhood ideas on the topic.

Literacy

Learning 2 Walk shares a printable robot alphabet matching activity.

Mom Inspired Life shares 5 games to play with alphabet robot cards.

Erase a Robot is a fun way to practice reading words from The Educators’ Spin On It.

Math

This robot patterning idea from Munchkins and Moms is genius.

Sensory

After you are done with the math activity above, use the materials to make this robot sensory bottle from Fun-a-Day.

Science

Use your engineering skills to make robot toys from Capri+3.

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Tina at Mommynificent says

    March 31, 2016 at 7:45 am

    Both this book and the activity are absolutely adorable! Thanks for being a part of Booknificent Thursday this week on Mommynificent.com! Always great to have you!
    Tina

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  2. Heather H says

    March 28, 2016 at 12:43 pm

    What a fun little game for building phonemic awareness! Thanks for sharing it with Everything Kids.

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  3. Heather H says

    March 28, 2016 at 12:42 pm

    What a fun little game for building phoemic awareness! Thanks for sharing it with Everything Kids.

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  4. Beth @ Pages and Margins says

    March 24, 2016 at 1:26 pm

    This looks great! Thanks for sharing!

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  5. Danielle says

    March 23, 2016 at 3:30 pm

    I definitely need to look for this book! I love that you can hang the little cards on the robot’s arm.

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  6. Clarissa @Munchkins and Moms says

    March 23, 2016 at 10:33 am

    I love getting new book recommendations from you! This one is definitely going in our library cart this week!

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  7. Theresa says

    March 23, 2016 at 9:00 am

    We need to check out that book! Thank you for the information and the great extension activities.

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  8. Amanda says

    March 23, 2016 at 7:20 am

    What a fun robot reading activity!

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