Looking for ways to work on the ABCs? These preschool alphabet games work on letter recognition and are hands-on fun!
We’ve combined the classic Chutes & Ladders game with the lowercase ABCs and phonics vocabulary for a super simple, super fun learning game. Watch out for the chutes!
One of my favorite classroom cooperative learning games is the game "I Have, Who Has." It is a great way to reinforce or review skills being taught and once you teach students how to play the game, you can use it for almost anything content by just switching out what students are learning. How to Play To play each students is given a card. If you have more students than cards you can have students buddy up and if you have less students than cards, you can just give some students two cards. The students with the "I have start" begins the game and then students take turns by following the sequence for the cards. The game ends when they get to the end card. (You can grab this I Have, Who Has Alphabet Freebie at the end of the blog post) This is such a fun and engaging cooperative learning game to play in a classroom and students really love the challenge. It encourages active listening as they listen for their card while reinforcing the content skills. You can play this game whole group and this game is perfect during morning meetings or any time when you have a few extra minutes. You can also play this game in small group by providing students with several cards each. To make the game even more engaging, students especially love when we "race the clock" and set a timer and students try to beat their best time every time while playing the game. You can find a variety of these fun to play games available in a kindergarten "I have, Who Has Bundle" This bundle can work as a quick review or time filler all year long! What is included? Included are the math skills of identifying numbers 1-25, numbers on ten frames 1-20 and both 3d and 2d shapes. As well as phonics skills including beginning sounds, CVC words, rhyming, nonsense words, and CVCe words. They are easy to print to have handy for whenever you have a few extra minutes in your classroom. Or you can try out this free I Has Who Has Alphabet Freebie I hope that you and your students enjoy playing this game!
This flashlight alphabet game is a fun way to use a preschool favorite to practice identifying letter names and sounds.
Free Printable Alphabet I Spy Game. Use this boredom buster activity on a rainy day or in the classroom to help kids learn their ABCs.
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The term print and play game exist because of the creativity of people who want to make games with their own rules. Creativity can create something new and different from existing ones.
We had so much fun with this Rainbow Hop Letter Sounds Game! This life-size board game is a fantastic way to move and learn alphabet sounds and counting!
Tips from a teaching and stay-at-home mom on mistakes to avoid when teaching the alphabet to your preschooler at home.
Make your own musical alphabet dice so that you can turn anything into a game. Print this dice and assemble it in a matter of minutes.
Alphabet Words Picture Quiz, Free Printable Alphabet Words Picture Test for Kids.
This letter sound matching game is a great way to practice the early literacy skill of matching letters to letter sounds.
How to solve letters b-d reversal problems with simple tips and activities.
Play spelling games with your learners to make learning so much more fun! Check out this list of 100 fun spelling games for kids!
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Coding binary alphabet with LEGO is an easy and screen-free coding activity for kids. Using your child's beloved LEGO blocks, your kids can code the letters of the alphabet in 0's and 1's.
Welcome back to school! Over the summer, my husband and I played an Escape Game. If y'all aren't familiar, the concept is that you are "locked" in a room that is filled with clues to help you escape. The clues usually involve code-breaking, riddle-solving and just plain old hide-n-seek. We had so much fun that I decided to bring the concept to the art room. I thought it would be a great way to introduce my kids to the rules, routines and the space that we call the art room. It was such a blast that I thought I'd share it with y'all! As the students entered the art room, I had one kid stand at the door and pass out these small slips of paper. There were 7 different colors with about 5 of each. This year I average about 32 third and fourth graders per class so I needed to make sure I had enough for everyone. Once seated on the floor, I started this video: A whole lotta (poor) editing went into this bad boy. Apparently I forget to edit the part where I adjust my wig. AND, if you make it all the way to the end of this video, you'll catch a look of how I really felt wearing that too-tight head piece and super-sweaty pleather jacket. Regardless, the kids ATE.IT.UP. Just before I let them have at it, I read them the wee rules of the game... Now, if you're worried that the kids will get a lil to wild playing this game, I found a sure-fire trick: Tell them there are SPIES watching. I fibbed to the kids and told them that before class had started, I had pulled aside a couple of kids to be my spies. Their job was to listen and share the secrets they overheard with other teams. Oh my goodness, y'all. Those fourth graders took that so seriously it was bananaz! My only other rule was no running...I have a big room and there was A LOT of excitement. But we can't be running in the art room, y'all. Once I gave them the go-ahead, the kids immediately teamed up and went to their coordinating table. There they found this: To make things easy for myself, I made all the puzzles identical. Some kids figured out that they were just to look for the yellow heart...but my rule was that all puzzles had to be solved before moving on to the next. My favorite was when one team said, "our puzzle is too hard!"...and I'm all, "Dudes. They are all the same." Once the puzzles were solved, the kids went in search of their heart. I made sure to hide these pretty well so it was a bit like an Easter egg hunt. Once they found their box, the kids discovered the following inside: A dry erase board and marker, a decoder and a code to solve. Each of the seven boxes contained riddles which revealed the class rules. They were to solve the riddle and return to our spot on the floor with their dry erase board. Just in case you'd like to use the code feel free! The Rockin' Riddle Rules the kids solved here: have fun, be respectful, follow directions, raise your hand, take pride and be nice. They were highly engaged, that's for sure! Once everyone had their rules, I played the next clip in the video where I chat about each rule. Then we were on to a self-guided room tour complete with a back-stage pass. (Yes, we refer to the place to put our dirty paint brushes as a "hot tub". Don't judge.) I tried to think of the places in my art room where the kids would visit the most. I also came up with fun clues to help them find those places. I had specific dry erase marker colors in each spot so they couldn't just write the answers in. Also, I had them go to the places on their pass in the order listed so we wouldn't have any traffic jams. A peek at how I labeled the places and placed the markers. Where we play the Smartest Artist game. After the passes were full, we met again on the floor. In the next part of the video, I take them on a tour explaining the different places in the art room and emergency procedures. The final phase of the game was a "solo mission". Each artist was given three Post-It's and a Sharpie. They could pick from any of the six questions on my board to answer in a complete sentence. Once finished, they returned to the floor where we played a quick round of Smartest Artist before heading out the door. You.Guys. I hadn't had a chance to read what they had written until this morning. It made my day! I mean... This was only after a couple of classes had a chance to write. I can't wait to see these filled up! I plan to hang them around the school for our Open House Night. Because my focus is Peace, Love and Kindess this year, this is an important question for my kids. Their responses let me know that they KNOW the answer...we just gotta make it happen. Thank you for allowing me to share this super fun way to kick off the school year! Feel free to steal any ideas you see here. I'd LOVE to know if you do this kind of thing with your students. The kids told me that they are excited to play this kind of game again...which can only mean that this will be a new and fun way to introduce new concepts to the kids. An Elements of Art Escape Game, anyone?! YES, PLEASE!
These hands-on beginning sounds activities are awesome for helping kids to learn about letter sounds! Highlight and Hole Punch This a fun activity
