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Learn About Letters Together: Cross Your Fingers
Challenge children to make the letter "X" with different parts of their bodies.
Learn About Letters Together: Guess My Word (/t/)
Create riddles with words that start with the /t/ sound and relate to the week’s theme (tool words, construction words).
Learn About Letters Together: Letter ("Bb," "Hh") and Word (build, house) Hunt
Reinforce recognition of the letters “Bb” and “Hh” and the words build and house by having children hunt for them in the room.
Learn About Letters Together: Letters Make Words
Spread out word cards and magnetic letters. Have children work in pairs to match letters to a word card.
Letter Molds (“Bb”)
Trace over the lowercase and uppercase “Bb.” Then have children press uppercase and lowercase “Bb” molds into the sand.
Make Adobe Bricks
Have children follow directions on how to make an adobe brick.
Materials Sort
Have children place objects in the correct category: materials that are good for building a house and materials that are not good for building a house.
My Kind of House
Invite children to draw the house they would like to build. Have them dictate or write labels or captions.
Neighborhood Houses and Buildings
Take a walk with your child and talk about different shapes, textures, and materials you notice on the houses and buildings.
Number Houses
Have children build a series of houses, each higher than the next.
Nuts and Bolts Count
Have children unscrew the nuts from the bolts. Then sort and count the nuts and bolts.
One-on-One Reading: Tap Tap Bang Bang #3
Read Tap Tap Bang Bang aloud to individuals or small groups.
One-on-One Reading: The Three Little Pigs Variations
Choose a version of The Three Little Pigs to read aloud to individuals or small groups.
Play Together: “Dub Cubs” #1 (BTL game)
Play the computer rhyming game Between The Lions “Dub Cubs.”
Play Together: Musical Alphabet Chairs
Stop the music to signal children to sit on a chair. Ask each child to identify the letter on his or her chair.
Play Together: Pig, Pig, Wolf!
Play the game “Duck, Duck, Goose” using words pig and wolf.
Read Together: Alphabet Under Construction #1
Comment on the different tools used to construct the letters of the alphabet in the story.
Read Together: Alphabet Under Construction #2
Reread the book and have children create their own alphabet charts with letters they cut from magazines.
Read Together: Building a House #1
Read Building a House by Byron Barton with children. Have children talk about the sequence of steps builders follow to construct a house.
Read Together: Building a House #2
Read Building a House. Focus on the different steps the builders took to build a house and compare it to the steps the children took in building their houses.