Coin Letter Matching P

Coin Letter Matching

Lesson Plan:

Activity:

Coin Letter Matching

Lesson plan developed by Ms. Erika Geelhoed, BA Ed

Age Group:

Preschool

* Lesson plan objective and assessment can be adapted to use this activity with school-age children.

Objectives:

Children will:

practice letter recognition skills.
increase sensory motor skill.

CDA Competency Standard:

II.5.2a

Materials and equipment stimulate children’s thinking and problem-solving
- a) Materials and equipment provide a variety of opportunities for cognitive development

Coin Letter Matching

Materials:

plastic play coins
paper
black marker
rice
food coloring
ziplock bag
cookie sheet
large plastic bin

Procedure:

To prepare for activity, take several cups of rice and put in a ziplock bag along with a few drops of desired food coloring.
Mix the rice around so that each grain gets covered with color.
Repeat this process for each color you would like in the sensory bin.
Place the rice on a covered cookie sheet to dry overnight.
Using a black permanent marker, label coins with letters of the alphabet (you can narrow it down to the letters you are currently working on if appropriate).
Write out each of the letters on a blank piece of paper as well.
Fill the bin with your dried rice and coins.
Invite the children to pick coins out of the rice and place them on the corresponding letter on the paper.
As the children are working, you can ask them questions to further phonological awareness.

**This activity can be modified for older preschoolers by changing just the letters on the paper to lower case letters. Doing so will challenge children to show knowledge of both upper and lower case letters.

Assessment:

Observe and record children during the activity. Keep track of which letters they sorted correctly right off the bat and which ones they struggled with. Revisit these more challenging letters with children again.

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Magnet Magic

Magnets Throughout the Classroom
When introducing preschool students to magnets, explain that magnetic objects will attach on their own to some, but not all, types of surfaces. Children can discover for themselves the surfaces that attract magnets:

Encourage children to test different surfaces throughout the room to see where their magnets will stick. Examples of surfaces that can be used in this experiment include wooden table tops, steel doors or walls, carpet, and metal chair legs.
Each time a new surface is tested, ask the children the question "Does the magnet stick to the ____?". After the experiment is finished, briefly explain how and why magnets are attracted to types of metal.

Dancing String
Attach something metal to a string. Hang the string from a table or the ceiling. Let your children use a magnet to make the objects dance.

What Does a Magnet Stick To
Have the children decorate tongue depressors or Popsicle sticks. Put a piece of magnet tape on the stick. Next take your children on a walk around the school to see what the magnet sticks will stick to.

Magnetic Pans
Fill cupcake pans with sand. Put different metal objects in the sand. Cover the top with something so that the children cannot get to the sand. Finally, give your children magnetic wands to move the metal objects around with.

Magnet Cars

Attach bar magnets to the fronts of small toy cars with masking tape.
Make sure that the magnets are attached, so that some will repel and some will attract.
Let the children play with the cars.
Ask them to roll two cars toward each other. What happens?
Can they figure out a way to push a car without touching it?