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Make a fairy tale wand and then have some learning fun with your creation. Build phonological awareness with these activities to build rhyming, beginning sounds, segmenting syllables and phoneme manipulation.

Cast a Sound with a Fairy Tale Wand

February 17, 2016 • 9 Comments

Once upon a time, there was a child who loved listening to fairy tales.  She pretended to be Cinderella, Rapunzel and Snow White.  She always dreamed of having her own magic fairy tale wand to cast View Post

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9 Comments Filed Under: All categories, Getting Ready to Read Tagged With: phonological awareness, playful preschool

A lively literacy game to build phonemic awareness and letter sound correspondence with a few simple materials. Perfect for preschoolers and kindergarteners.

Mystery Mitten Letter Sound Game

January 20, 2016 • 14 Comments

It's all about mittens today.  The Mystery Mitten Letter Sound Game builds phonological awareness and letter/sound relationships.  It's super quick, easy, and full of fun. This game builds phonemic View Post

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14 Comments Filed Under: All categories, Getting Ready to Read Tagged With: playful preschool, winter

Make mittens for The Three Little Kittens.

The Three Little Kittens Rhyming Mittens

November 25, 2015 • 5 Comments

Do you remember that little rhyme about the three little kittens who lost their mittens so they weren't going to get any pie?  Today, we are helping those little kittens find their mittens and helping View Post

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5 Comments Filed Under: All categories, Getting Ready to Read Tagged With: playful preschool, rhyming

Learn the alphabet by exploring with your 5 senses. Fun hands-on alphabet activities that use magnetic letters and your sense of sight, sound, touch, smell and taste.

Exploring the Alphabet with Your 5 Senses

November 18, 2015 • 9 Comments

Next to books, magnetic alphabet letters are my favorite literacy tool.  We have used our set over and over again since my kids were toddlers. This week the Early Childhood Education Team is View Post

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9 Comments Filed Under: All categories, Alphabet Activities Tagged With: magnetic letters, playful preschool

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Forest Animal Rhyming Treasure Hunt

October 14, 2015 • 12 Comments

How would you like to discover a hidden treasure?  Maybe stumble across a chest full of emeralds, sapphires and diamonds? Or, uncover a case of gold.  Think of all the children's books you could View Post

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12 Comments Filed Under: All categories Tagged With: phonological awareness, playful preschool, rhyming

Build phonemic awareness with this My Family Beginning Sounds Activity. A playful preschool activity perfect for a my family theme.

My Family Beginning Sounds Book

October 7, 2015 • 10 Comments

This week we are exploring family as part of the collaborative effort of our Early Childhood Education Team. All year we are diving into early childhood themes.  Each week, I'm sharing a phonological View Post

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Teddy Bear Beginning Sounds Picnic

September 30, 2015 • 14 Comments

It's a teddy bear beginning sound picnic to develop phonological awareness.  Come join the party. Here is a little fun piece of trivia about me. Have you ever been to Build-a-Bear Workshop with the View Post

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