Sometimes, I feel it can be confusing to know what to work on with children when it comes to ‘pre-academics.’ But a good place to start is with a child’s name. I came up with the idea here to photocopy letters from an old puzzle that was missing letters and set it up as a tray activity/puzzle for X to play with as interested. It’s a great way to start exposing children to the shape of their name and you can begin to point out the first letter sounds etc as they play. I also paired it with these sandpaper letters I got from amazon because as they play with the cards and match up letters they can begin to not just see the shape of their name but feel the shape as well which is great lead up for later writing. I still use this printout and the letters with X at 5, but here’s an excerpt from what I posted on my instagram at the time of this photo when he was 2.
‘X has been super interested in letters lately so I decided to set this up and start with sounds and letters in his name to make his play with letters and sounds meaningful. I took the letters from his name from an old puzzle and then printed out a pic of it spelled out. He has been having fun matching up the letters and identifying the sounds’
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