Small Group Activity
Combine the experience of scooping and brushing rice with a little name and letter recognition. To play this simple but engaging name activity, start by putting laminated name cards on a tray then pour some rice on the tray too. The children can use their hands or brushes to search for their names and the names of their friends. This is a wonderful way to help the children identify not only their own name but all the names of the children in your class. Once the children get pretty good at recognizing their names as a whole, then you can cut up the name into individual letters and invite them to search for the letters in their name. This is also fun to play with a partner. One child hides all the letters under the rice then the other child searches for the letters. Just the scooping and brushing rice makes for a wonderful sensorial experience. Once children are able to do independently move the activity to the centers.
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| Hide the name cards under the rice. |
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| Add friends names too! |
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| Cut the letters apart. Find the different letters and put together to spell name. |
Idea taken from Teach Preschool
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