Fun For Tots: January 2017

Learning to Read with Funetics (Phonetics or Phonics)
(review the 1st Blog-Step Into Reading)

*Get all of the step by step mini books, games and activities for all 4 Steps in the July post, 2018. Look to the right hand top corner for a complete list of posts. Tap and your in.

4 Giant Steps into reading

Step I (A letter is Born)

(Reading Readiness Skills)
There are 7 baby steps in Step I (Baby is Born)

The tot will learn to read, write, and recognize each letter every lesson

In connection with the letter, each lesson will teach about a shape, number, and color. These are the skills that help to read, write, and recognize

Letters
Give the letters a name & sound that the letter makes.by using these finger puppets.
(reading & recognizing)

Copy to cardstock

Cut around each finger puppet

Remove the circle (I used a paper punch to start the hole)

Slip your finger in the cut out circle

(You can pull each page up with a click)

Copy and Paste to word

Teaching letters & sounds with Phoningo (Bingo)

Numbers

Colors
Cut out cubes and then fold up into a cube

Roll the cube and name the color

Shapes

Here is your first reading book

Step I (Letter A)

Cut this page into 4

Staple

Sample Lesson
Another Free Lesson
Letter G
Great Ground Hog (Feb 2)
Introduction:
Give clues for answering what is green?.
1. You play in it in the summer and spring. You have to cut and water it because it grows. It is green. (grass)
Music: "The Green Grass Grows All Around" lyrics by William Jerome and music by Harry Von Tilzer *YouTube has many versions
2. What things grow? Plants, animals, people
(measure each tot)
3. Introduce the word go. Count the 6 sides of the hexagon.
A light that is green, means that it is time to go. Play Red Light, Green Light. Each tot stands behind the line. The tot will progress toward the sign when the sign is go green, but must stop when it is red. If they go while it is red, the tot will return behind the line. The first to touch the person with the sign wins.
4. Learn about giving.

Snack: Things that you grow in the garden, (green grapes)
Music: "Give Said the Little Stream" "The Green Grass Grows All Around" "Red, Yellow, Green"

Story: The Great Ground Hog"
Conclusion: Sometimes being great, isn't all that great.

Here is a mini Great Groundhog 4 page Book

Field Trip: Go to a grocery store. Find things that grow in a garden.

Take Home Activity: Stop & Go Sign

Cut out & have the tot's color green on one side and red on the other. Attach a large craft stick. (Play, "Red Light, Green Light")

You will need: a cup, a cut out copy of the ground hog and green grass, scissors, a skewer stick with the point cut off, tape and some crayons to color the ground hog with

1-Have the groundhog taped on to the stick ready for the tot.

2-Tape the grass around the cup.

3-Let them color the ground hog. The Groundhog moves up and down in his hole.

Summary: Shape (hexagon #6 sides ), color-green, Letter Gg,
Concepts: What grows?, giving, what is green?, what is great?

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2 letters together (married)