Purpose:
This activity will engage all of the children regardless of their skill
with the letters. As they do the activity with their peers they will learn
from each other about the letters and their sounds. For
3-4-year-olds who do not yet know
their letters,
just playing with the toys and learning their names may
be enough.
Materials/Advance Preparation:
- plastic containers with lids (16 or 32 oz. containers that are
used for soup in Chinese restaurants work well for this)
- little toys and objects
- labels for each tub
Directions:
- Label
each tub with a letter in upper and lower case.
- Fill
each tub with little toys and objects that children will recognize and that
start with the letter on the tub's label.
- Dump
the toys from one container out on the table.
- Let
the children say the sound that the letter makes and identify each item as they
put it back into the tub.
- When
they get good at it, you can dump out two tubs at a time and let them sort them
back out.
Eric Gidseg
Letter Tubs