Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Outdoor ABC Hunt

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This morning we spent a bit of time outside looking for a missing alphabet.
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I saw this idea at Fantastic and Fun Learning and adapted it to work for our centre.  I hid magnetic letters, A-Z, around our playground before we went outside.
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The children were to quick to run around the play structure searching and
                                        finding letters.
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      As they found letters they added them to our alphabet line. 
        Matching the letters then running back to look for more.
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The activity provided an opportunity to introduce letters and to reinforce
                        letters in each child’s name.
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Another benefit of printing the letters on the ground for the children
         to match was to make sure we found all the letters.

2 comments:

  1. WHAT A GREAT IDEA!!!!! Thank you so much for posting it!
    I think this would work for so many concepts: kids could search for objects that start with a certain sound, ignoring the ones that don't start with it, etc. They could search for numbers, and then lay them down in order. What else could they search for? I also love that it is outside.
    Beautiful!
    Heidi Butkus

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    1. Thanks Heidi
      I've been thinking of looking for little pumpkins with different facial expressions to hide and match.

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