Great Literacy Activity for the first week of school!
Name Squares
Name Recognition & Small Motor Skills
All you need is paper, scissors, glue and magazines. Students cut out large letters to spell their names. They glue the letters onto 9" x 9" squares of construction paper or poster boards. Children may decorate their Name Squares with markers, stickers, drawings or pictures cut from magazines. Laminate and save the Name Squares. Use them for the Clip It! activity described below. These can be used all year long for a variety of sorting and letter recognition activities.
Name Recognition & Small Motor Skills
All you need is paper, scissors, glue and magazines. Students cut out large letters to spell their names. They glue the letters onto 9" x 9" squares of construction paper or poster boards. Children may decorate their Name Squares with markers, stickers, drawings or pictures cut from magazines. Laminate and save the Name Squares. Use them for the Clip It! activity described below. These can be used all year long for a variety of sorting and letter recognition activities.
Clip It!
Visual Discrimination - Letters of the Alphabet
After students make Name Squares, it's time to use them again - this time for Clip It! - a literacy activity. Write all the letters of the alphabet on clothespins. You will need to have several clothespins for each letter, especially the vowels. Children clip clothespins to the Name Squares matching all the letters in their own name. For example, the name Tom would have the clothespins T-O-M attached. Children will want to match names of their classmates too. They can revisit this activity again and again using different Name Squares each time.
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