Title: Fun with Names
Age: 5 - 6 Year Old
Subject Area: PreWriting (Knowledge Standard: FA 1 and PHD 1)
Length of time for activity: 9-12 minutes
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When a child begins to write words, the first word he will enjoy writing is his own name. By providing tools to practice going up and down on each letter and discovering how each letter curves, this prepares him for writing his/her name once they arrive in the classroom at school. By looking closely at how “his/her name” is written, he/she will plant seeds of discovery for other words with similar letters that might be located in their environment such as the grocery store or a discount store.
Material Needed:
Construction paper
- Glue
- Miscellaneous bowl of items: (for example, beans, cereal, macaroni, small scraps of torn paper, stones, shells, or cotton balls.
What to do:
- On a piece of paper, using large letters, write your child’s name across the paper. Start the first letter with a capital letter and the remaining letters as lower case. Help your child take the glue bottle and trace over the top of what you have written, while you say the name of each letter.
- Provide a bowl of items to stick on top of the glue.
- Let dry. Display on the refrigerator for your child to enjoy seeing and reinforce the letters learned.
In the Comment Post below:
Please share your child’s age and if they are a boy or girl. Share how you created the activity together to reinforce the spelling of your child’s name and how it went.
