- blocks
- marker
- paper
- word card up
- build
- up
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.5: Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity: Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Science and Technology/Physical Sciences 20: Create representations of experiences or stories (e.g., drawings, constructions with blocks or other materials, clay models) and explain them to others.
Build a Word (up)
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Skill Focus: Fine Motor Skills, Letter Formation, Letter Recognition, Vocabulary
Invite children to build the word up with blocks. You may want to help children sketch large outlines of each letter on paper for reference as they work.
Observe how children work together and ask questions, such as, How many blocks do you think you will need to make the letter “u”? A lowercase “p”?