Ocean Theme

Ocean Matching Game

 

Summer is finally here! That means a lot of little ones are home for the summer and others are gearing up for the start of summer school. Ocean and under the sea are popular themes for summer activities. Using a small stash of ocean animal figurines I created an easy matching game that can be an independent task or a turn taking activity. To create this easy activity, all I really had to do was take a picture of each figurine. For a little more of a challenge, kids could also do a non-identical match to pictures that you find online. It would also be fun to incorporate the ocean animal figurines into a summer sensory bin!

Reading: Environmental Print

Kids are working on their reading skills long before they learn letter sounds and sight words. Environmental print is everywhere and children are "reading" the symbols and print all the time. I love to use environmental print for the pre- readers in my classroom.

5 Ways to Learn and Play with Environmental Print

1. Create a matching activity or book (free activity included as a link in this post!)
2. Sort by beginning letter sounds
3. Create puzzles from brand name food packages (also a great way to involve parents- ask them to send in empty packages from their child's favorite foods)
4.  Play I spy ( "I spy a word that starts with T.")
5. Play a movement game by posting environmental print around the room and having students move to the word (you can call out the word, provide a clue such as the first letter, hold up a matching card, etc.)

How do you use environmental print with your children or students?


Click this link for an environmental print freebie!
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&srcid=0B2-rqUbks1Mcd1A5Y1dTdS1QVmM

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