{"id":1187,"date":"2008-02-24T17:36:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T00:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2009-10-31T20:09:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-01T03:09:13","slug":"letter-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Letter Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;\">Turn a tour of your home into an easy alphabet lesson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0index cards<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0markers or crayons<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0tape<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0paper (as large as possible)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black; font-size: 11pt;\">Help your child write the letters of the alphabet (in upper- or lowercase) in index cards, putting one letter on each card.\u00c2\u00a0Pick a room in your home to start with \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the living room, kitchen, or bedroom work well. Walk around the room, and name the starting letter for furniture and objects in the room: &#8220;&#8216;Couch&#8217; begins with the letter C. &#8216;Table&#8217; begins with the letter T.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Invite your child to find that letter and to place or tape the index card onto the item. If multiple objects begin with the same letter (such as couch and chair), create additional cards. \u00c2\u00a0To extend the activity, create a large bar graph to show how many objects began with certain letters. At the bottom of the graph, write the relevant letters. Then, create a bar showing how many objects began with each letter. Which letters were used the most often?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0supports letter recognition and phonemic awareness<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0provides practice writing letters<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0introduces bar graphs<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0practices counting skills<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turn a tour of your home into an easy alphabet lesson. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0index cards \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0markers or crayons \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0tape \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2\u00c2\u00a0paper (as large as possible) Help your child write the letters of the alphabet (in upper- or lowercase) in index cards, putting one letter on each card.\u00c2\u00a0Pick a room in your home to start with \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,35,37,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-literacy","category-math","category-preschool","category-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}