Here are 10 activities that you can do with your child at home to reinforce classroom experiences over Fall Break. As we have just studied the letter "Mm" extensively so far, several of these activities are strictly related to reiterating that particular learning.
1. Listening: In each group, which words begin with the "Mm" sound? Which word has a different sound at the beginning? What sound does it begin with?
mail, milk, book lemon, more, magnet music, baby, man
muscles, comb, mix bunny, money, mother mud, bud, made
mill, mice, bill meat, mitten, beat bug, map, mug
moth, bay, may moo, boo, middle my, make, by
2. Listening: Which words in these sentences begin with the "Mm" sound?
a. Matthew had a ride on the merry-go-round.
b. Miss Mooney saw me at the store.
c. I will miss Mickey when he moves.
d. Melissa put money in her piggy bank.
e. Maria and Mike are getting married.
3. Play a word guessing game. Your answers should begin with the "Mm" sound.
a. What is white, good to drink, and comes from a cow? _______ (milk)
b. What does a cat say? _______ (meow)
c. What animal can swing by its tail and make funny faces? _____ (monkey)
d. What do some people wear over their faces on Halloween? ______ (masks)
e. What day comes after Sunday? ________ (Monday)
4. Play a listening and thinking game. Tell what is wrong with these sentences.
a. Music makes me mad.
b. Machines make work hard for men.
c. Marge wears mittens on her feet.
d. Mom makes mudpies for dinner.
e. The moon is made of green cheese.
5. Make a list of friends, relatives and favorite storybook characters with a name that begins with the "Mm" sound.
6. Show your child how to print "Mm" this way:
M: Make 2 straight lines from top to bottom. Put a dot in between the 2 lines at the bottom. Make a sliding board from each line at the top to the dot at the bottom.
m: Make a straight line from middle to bottom, pause, trace back up and around, pause, trace up and around again.
7. Visit http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/CompactforReading/tablek.html. Here you will find a variety of downloadable and printable activities to practice basic Kindergarten literacy skills.
8. Play "Candyland" a new way.: We have been practicing color word recognition for the past few weeks. Play "Candyland" with your child, but instead of using the color cards that come with the game, make your own cards out of paper or index cards and write the color words on them instead.
9. Restaurants/stores as places of learning. Restaurants and stores are great places to practice letter, number, and sound recognition, as well as shape and color identification. Have your child point out things that are a certain shape/color, or that begin with a certain sound. They can go on a "Letter Hunt", searching to see how many places that they can find that particular letter (This works well with numbers, too!).
10. Don't forget about our "Popcorn" Words! Don't forget to continually practice our "popcorn", or sight, words. The words that we have studied so far are: "I", "am", "the", "little", "to", and "a". Have your child locate these words in various types of print (newspapers, magazines, books, DVD/movie cases, signs, advertisements, etc. You can also make flashcards--but be sure to mix up the order from time to time!
I hope that you and your child have a wonderful and relaxing Fall Break! I am looking forward to seeing the kiddos again on Tuesday, October 18th!
Thank you to http://mrsjonesroom.com/letter/all.html for some of the above ideas!
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