New AlphaBoard Ideas!!!!

One of my friends added some great modifications and new ideas for The Alphaboard. To see my original post, click here.

Here is the post from the wonderful blog, Write on Their Hearts: Visit their super cute blog for some great ideas!

Alphaboard

I was recently sent to a blog that is full of great ideas. If you have not yet checked out Snail’s Trail, go there! Momma Snail is so creative and has lots of detailed instructions so you can make the same games and other ideas that she shares. One of her ideas recently was for an “alphaboard“. She makes great use of paint chips (I have a feeling that Lowes is going to hate me soon for all the paint chips I will be taking to my home!), and found a scrapbooking pack of paper that is full of alphabet letters for only $6 at Walmart. I stocked up on both of those and created my own alphaboard. As I was working on this though (mine is somewhat different from hers, so you will have to check her out as well as mine), I got some other ideas for how this could be used at our home.

This is my Alphaboard. It is made with the letters from the Walmart scrapbooking pack and put on a posterboard. I used posterboard so that I could take it and laminate it. I am a laminating fanatic. I would laminate everything in our home if I could. I love it! It makes regular paper activities so much more durable and last so much longer.

Four envelopes on the back hold paint chips for four different games. The pink envelope for my preschooler holds printed letters. The Green envelope for my rising second grader holds cursive letters. The yellow envelope also for the preschooler holds lots of different pictures, cut from magazines, for identifying beginning or ending sounds, and the orange envelope holds the paint chip for the “What is it” game.

Game 1:

Letter identification. In the pink envelope are 26 paint chips with the letters of the alphabet on them. The letters can be matched to the letters on the alphaboard to identify and name the letters.

Game 2:

26 more paint chips with the letters of the alphabet written in cursive. I came up with this idea when my son told me the other day that he could not read cursive. Well, let’s fix that! This will give him the ability to see the letters in printing and match them up with their cursive counterpart.

Game 3:

Match the picture to the letter it goes with. This will start as a game for beginning sounds (Dog – D), but will move to ending sounds (Dog – G). Eventually, we could even pick out and identify the vowel sound that is in the word.

Game 4;

Using the paint chips with the “window” in them, cover a letter, showing only part of it. Can you identify the letter that is hiding?

I then went on to make 2 other alphaboards. The first is for phonetic blends. I used the blends, tr, br, cr, st, str, fl, and bl as well as th, sh, and ch. This board will also be used with pictures to identify the sound at the beginning or end of the name of the picture (train, church, stop, black, first, fish)

The second is a vowel board. There are the old, standby games (as listed above), of beginning and ending sounds for each of the vowels and the sounds that they make. I am still working on this one, quite honestly. I have pictures in my head of using yarn and creating a game with that…but haven’t formed it all yet. I will write more when I do.

What ideas do you have for an alphaboard?

Told you her ideas are super cute!!!!! Thanks, Write on Their Hearts!!!!

Also check out Michelle's post at Her Cup Overfloweth. She made the cutest alphabet matching game!