Make Your Own Letter Tiles for Spelling Practice

Make Your Own Letter Tiles for Spelling Practice

Letter tiles are a necessary tool for teaching spelling in a hands-on way. We start using letter tiles when my kids are in preschool. They each learned to spell their names with homemade letter tiles. These are two ideas for making your own letter tiles. I originally...
Let Children Build a Small Bouquet

Let Children Build a Small Bouquet

Hand a child a pile of flowers and something predictable happens. They don’t sort by species or think about symmetry. They go straight for colour, grabbing whatever catches their eye first, then adjusting by feel rather than by rule. The result rarely looks like...
Frog pond letter sound sorting

Frog pond letter sound sorting

This hands-on activity is perfect for preschoolers learning to associate letter sounds with images. Simply using printable cartoon graphics, and some posterboard plus contact paper, you can make an activity tray for this letter sound sorting activity that works for...