Welcome back to Day Two of my Ten Days of Freebies! For ten full days, I will be sharing gifts with you to celebrate my 10th anniversary of blogging.
Each day, you will receive a free printable full of hands-on learning to enjoy with your child, and you will also see an offer for the related resource which will be on sale in my shop.
Today I am giving you incredibly useful, engaging, and fun-filled sound cards! This is such a fun one for little ones beginning their letter-learning journey.
How to Learn and Play with Your Sound Cards
Some of you may not know, but prior to being a Homeschooling Mama, I taught in the classroom for ten years and also studied to become a Reading Specialist. Through this education and my many, many years educating children, I have learned the most effective way for teaching children to read. By beginning with the letters s, a, t, i, p, and n, and teaching both letter names and sounds, children can begin sound blending right away.
This freebie is for that first grouping of letters ( s, a, t, i, p, and n). After learning and playing with these cards, your little one will already be able to build and read words such as sat, pat, tin, pin, tan, and pan!
Here are a few fun ways to play and learn with your sound cards:
Clothespin Clip
You’ll notice that each card has a letter in uppercase and lowercase on the left, and four little pictures on the right. Some of those pictures begin with the same sound as the letter shown on the left, and others do not. Have your child say the letter sound and the words and decide which ones begin with that letter sound. If they do, add a clothespin!
You can read all about this activity, including some helpful tips as you get started introducing letters and sounds, right here: https://www.howweelearn.com/letter-sound-games-for-preschoolers-free-printable/
Go Fish
Print two copies of the letter cards and have a game of Go Fish! You could play to practice the letter names (e.g. “Do you have the letter S?”) or the letter sounds (e.g. “Do you have the letter that says ssss?”).
Scavenger Hunt
Lay the cards on the floor and have your child go on a scavenger hunt, trying to find something that begins with each sound. They may find some socks to go with the S card, an apple for the A card, a toy for the T card, etc. You can also focus on just one letter sound and try to find as much as you can that starts with that one letter sound!
Hide and Seek
Hide the cards in a room and have your child find each one. When they find a card, can they tell you the letter name and the sound that it makes?
On the Wall
Tape the cards on a wall and call out a letter name or sound. Have your child try to throw a rolled up ball of socks to hit that letter card.
Letter Hunt
Pull out your child’s favorite storybook and go on a letter hunt! Turn to the very first page and read it together, then hunt through that page to find one of the letters, perhaps a T. How many can you find? Can you find one that’s at the start of the word? What about at the end of the word? Can you find an uppercase and a lowercase? Read the next page together and hunt for another letter. Continue on with all of the letters that you’re practicing!
Grab your Free Sound Cards right here:
Play into Kindergarten Readiness is right for you if:
- Your child is 3 to 5 years old.
- Your child can engage in a playful activity for 5+ minutes.
- You want to do a fun, easy, and memory-making activity with your child each day.
- No prior skills are needed.
Get Play into Kindergarten Readiness right here:
https://shop.howweelearn.com/pages/play-into-kindergarten-readiness
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