Lets Learn Letters: Printable Playdough Mats

If you've been following along with our Lets Learn Letters activities you'll remember that I have been creating Printable Playdough Mats for each letter as we work through them.

We love using these and the images on the playdough mats are used during some of our other letter activities so they all tie in together.

I will continue doing these as we go, but for now I have compiled the first six, which also coincides with the Explode The Code Primer Book A, into one download.

This should make it much easier for you to have everythng ready to do for your playdough mats,without having a huge download of all the letters together.

Download the playdough Mats here.

We are moving on to ETC Primer Book B, so get ready for more Lets Learn Letters activities in the coming weeks.

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Let's Learn Letters: Free Printables for Review Sounds F - B - M - K - T - R

It's been Sound Review Week around here. We've been doing loads of different things to ensure we have the first six sounds covered, down pat.

I put together this Sound Matching Activity which reviews all of the sounds in the first ETC Primer. The images used are the same images I have used in the other printable materials, playdough mats, sound chants and sound rhymes.

I knew that it could be frustrating with lots of little cards moving around everywhere and not staying where they were supposed to so I thought a file folder would be perfect for this activity. I've simply used velcro dots to hold everything in place, after laminating all of the pieces.

Download the Beginning Sound Review File Folder Game here.

I printed and laminated the appropriate Word Wheels from Alphabet Avenue.  This site suggests placing a sticker on the back for each correct picture so that the child can self check. However I chose to write the letters on pegs for each Word Wheel.

Firstly K needed to sort all of her pegs, she then could easily see how many pegs were to be used on each wheel.

Overall she did very well at this. Kayak tripped her up nearly everytime, a couple of the images aren't as obvious to all children as they probably are to us.

I wanted a quick simple way to assess where she was at with the letters, whilst still keeping the activity fun. This is a simple Letter Recognition sheet that we used with Dot Markers. I asked her to place an orange dot on a little k for example. I simply had to make sure I could see what she was doing and kept a mental note if she happened to go wrong anywhere.

 

Download the Bingo Marker Letter Recognition Sheet here.

This one was for beginning sounds. Once again I used the familiar images for this to aid in recognition. I simply printed in black and white though as the bingo markers  were the star attraction here. This time she had complete freedom with colours, I simply asked her to dot something that started with 'f' for instance.

Download the Bingo Marker Sound Review sheet here.

We practiced our sound chants over and over and over again. Sorry that photo is really bad I know and I am too lazy to take another one and upload it.

We also looked over our growing Alphabet Folder, full of all of those sensory letters (I downloaded the letters from here) we've been working on and the Alphabet Rhyme pages we have done.

We also made a start on a Letter Tree. I have seen a myriad of these around the blogosphere but I got the idea to use handprints from this blog. 

Granted it looks a little odd at the moment but we will continue to add to it over the coming weeks. K painted and cut out the trunk. We traced her hands together and she painted the letters on to each hand.

All in all I am very happy with how she is progressing. Considering that even earlier this year she wanted nothing to do with 'doing school'. She is improving, responding and working independently (where appropriate) and overall succeeding.

We are away for most of next week so there will be a week or so break before any more Lets Learn Letters Activities are posted.

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Lets Learn Letters: Letter R

Try Some Silly Letter R Chants

We are still very much enjoying these funny little chants. Some days K is adamant that she wants to recite them all on her own and others she asks for me to join her with them. I just go with the flow.

Roll some play dough letter R's on this printable playdough mat.

 Download the Playdough Mat here.

Write letter R's in a salt tray. Try sand, rice or whatever you have on hand.

Decorate R's With Ribbons and Rice.

K loves having the freedom to add her flair to this part of the whole structured 'letter' routine.

I had offered a few suggestions here, cut up mosiac style coloured paper, used roll up little balls of crepe paper were a couple I proposed. In the end she chose to paint her rainbow.

Have fun with funny Letter R Rhymes.

Download the Rabbits on Rockets Rhyme page here. 

We are now at the end of the first Explode The Code Primer.

In the next Lets Learn Letters post I will share some of our review activities for Letter F, Letter B, Letter M, Letter K, Letter T and of course Letter R.

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Lets Learn Letters: Letter T

Try Some Silly Letter T Chants

Roll some play dough letter T's on this printable playdough mat.

Download the Playdough Mat here.

Decorate T's With Toothpicks and Tissue Paper.

Have fun with funny Letter T Rhymes and create a whole Alphabet Rhyme Book..

Download the Terrific Tigers Rhyme Page here.

And don't forget to show off your handiwork!

Lets Learn Letters: Letter K

Try some silly Letter K chants.

We barely even needed to touch K this week. Being the first letter of her name it was pretty much a given that she knew K and it's sound.

Write letter K's in a salt tray. Try sand, rice or whatever you have on hand.

No idea what's going on here. Blogger turned this image and I can't see how to fix it. You get the idea!

Roll some play dough letter K's on this printable playdough mat.

Download Play Dough Math here.

Decorate K's With Kidney Beans.

Have fun with funny Letter K Rhymes.

This was fun and a little challenging. I used the kites on the play dough as a template to trace and cut out the individual triangular shapes that make up the kite. I had K manipulate the shapes into their correct positions to form the kites. Lots of flipping and turning going on here.

We then glued them onto a sheet of paper and cut that out to complete the kite. I suggested that she use string for the 'rope' and glue it under the koala's hands, but she chose to simply draw straight onto the page and decorated with glitter ribbons to finish off.

Download Keen Koala's Flying Kites here.

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Lets Learn Letters: Letter M

Try Some Silly Letter M Sound Chants.

As we cover a letter we stick this laminated sound chant cards to K's desk as a reminder for the letters. We go over each sound chant daily. She loves doing these completely on her own and is the first thing we have ever tried like this that she does, enjoys and WANTS to do on her own!!!


Download for this is coming soon, I promise.

Write letter M's in a salt tray. Try sand, rice or whatever you have on hand.

We love the salt tray, it is perfect for practising and any mistakes are quickly erased.

Roll some play dough letter M's on this printable playdough mat.

Download available for the Playdough Mat.

Decorate M's With Macaroni and Money.

Both of these were a little tricky to stay glued on. Macorni keeps falling off and we had to use sticky tape for the money. They both look really great though.

Have fun with funny Letter M Rhymes.

K painted her background night sky and the moon, mixed shades of grey. (I squirted out some black and white and only just mixed them to give that dappled look. More black for the sky and more white for the moon). K glued on the monkeys, the rhyme and the star stickers.

Her rhyme alphabet book is coming together nicely with these additions.

Download for the Merry Monkeys on the Moon available.

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Lets Learn Letters: Letter B

Try some silly letter B sound chants.

I do plan on making these for each letter, they're fun and simple to say. I'm unable to share them yet though as they are all nowhere near finished.

Write letter B's in a salt tray. Try sand, rice or whatever else you have on hand.

Have fun with funny Letter B rhymes.

I printed the funny rhyme and the large banana's clip art and K used our tie dyed paper towel to make little balancing butterflies.

Download the banana's rhyme page here.

Roll some playdough letter B's on this printable playdough mat.

Download the playdough mat here.

Decorate some B's with buttons and bows.

Most of all have fun with the Letter B.

Please let me know if you use and show any of these activities on your blog. 

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