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Home » Montessori » Word Family Activity for Preschoolers

Word Family Activity for Preschoolers

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I am excited about this Word Family Activity for Preschoolers with you because the language activity combines learning and movement, which supports optimal brain development AND a classroom or home full of active children! Perfect! Plus developing gross motor skills is important and unfortunately being squeezed out of our kids daily lives with technology, especially. So, we are determined to find ways to combine learning and movement, and, of course, to make it fun along the way.

Word Family Activity for Preschoolers

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Word Family Activity for Preschoolers

Materials

  • list of word families (optional but helpful)
  • marker, letter stickers, or stamps
  • hand cut outs (We bought our cut outs at Lakeshore Learning but there are many types out there. I bought the multicultural hands because I didn’t’ want to miss the opportunity to teach about our differences.

 

High Five Word Family Activity for Preschoolers

 

 Approach

  • Prepare cut outs ahead of time with a, e, i, o, and u word families
  • Pass out the hands to the children (you can have as many hands as you want)
  • Explain to them that the objective is to find the other children holding the same short vowel sound (you can do this activity with blends, ending sounds, beginning sounds, etc) and to give them a “high five”
  • Once they find the matches and give them the appropriate “high five”, they should take a moment to read and review the family of words
  • Mix up and challenge them again

 

Resources for this Word Family Activity

  • Hand Cut Outs
  • Stamps
  • Self Adhesive Sticker Letters
  • Word Family Activities Round Up Post

 

 

 

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Tagged With: Kindergarten, Preschool, Reading and Writing

About Marnie Craycroft

Marnie hails from Maine where she spent summers buried in sand and winters buried in snow. She is the daughter of a nearly four decade veteran of the public school systems. Teaching has always been a part of her life. She founded Carrots Are Orange in 2010.

Carrots Are Orange is a Montessori learning and living website for parents and teachers.

Marnie graduated from Wesleyan University in 1999 with a BA in Economics. She spent nearly a decade working in investment management. In 2006, she earned her MA in business from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Marnie moved to the west coast in 1999 and currently lives in Boulder with her husband and three sons. She is Montessori trained. Her work has been featured on Apartment Therapy, Buzzfeed, PBS Kids, BabyCenter, the Melissa & Doug blog, Huffington Post, and WhattoExpect.com. Besides writing, passions include running (usually after her three sons), photography, and outdoor adventures.

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