07/27/2020
Set your preschooler 🆙 for S-U-C-C-E-S-S!!🔠
Did you know that you are activating your preschoolers early literacy foundation when you teach them about their name?
Those few letters in their name teach them about letter recognition, spelling, writing, and gives them a personal connection to the alphabet. This offers a great background when interacting with the alphabet in print, preschool, and beyond.
When we are talking about EXPOSING preschoolers to early literacy, this is where modeling and showing comes into play. A little bit of intentionality in this area can go a long way.
Here are a few activities you can do at home to build early literacy foundations using their name:
✨label their belongings (clothes, toys, bins)
✨identifying letters in their name in places around the house “I see letters __ __ __ ___, that spells (child’s name)!”
✨when doing anything with letters, start with letters in their name first “Look this is letter ____, your name starts with that letter!”
✨make a short song about their name that says each letter.
As you make exposure to their name a daily habit, this paves the way for exciting explore and engage activities to build off of what they already know. Their name allows them to have immediate success when they start learning and interacting with the alphabet.🏆
Several students in my ABC Dance With Me class would always pick up the first letter of their name when we played alphabet freeze dance. This is because they brought their prior knowledge of the letters in their own name to jump start their interactions with the letters in class.
🙋🏾♀️🙋🏾♀️So tell me… How do you lead your child with interacting with their name at home? I would love to share ideas with you. Comment below 👇🏾👇🏾
