Sight Word ABCs with Blocks

We’ve been trying out some different ways to play with, learn, and review sight words and having a lot of fun. Yesterday, we combined them with practicing alphabet order and played with Sight Word ABCs with Blocks!

 

(E was 5 years and 3 months old.)

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Materials for Sight Word ABCs with Blocks

 

• Blocks. {We borrowed Infantino Squeeze and Stack Blocks from N’s toy stash.}
• Pre-primer sight word mini flash cards. {Alternatively, you could just write the words on slips of paper or even right on the blocks.}
• Sticky tape.

 

I picked out 10 pre-primer sight words for this activity, cut out the corresponding mini flash cards, and stuck them on 10 blocks with loops of sticky tape. Since this was the first time we actually did a specific ABC order activity, I made sure that all the words started with different letters.

To get started, I asked E to go through all the blocks and read the words. Without prompting, she stacked up the blocks once she’d read the corresponding word.

It took her a moment to figure out “jump”, but she got it without help.

 

 

After she’d stacked up all the blocks, I asked her to put them in ABC order and build a tower.

She was a little confused when there were words starting with a, b, and c, but nothing with d. I explained that she needed to skip those letters and just find the next one in alphabetical order.

 

 

N tried to help, too – they were his blocks, after all 😉

 

 

On E’s first try, the tower toppled over after she put “jump” on top, so she told me she wanted to start over and make two towers side by side.

 

 

When she was done, she decided to blow over the tower. Those blocks are fairly heavy, so it took a while, and just a taaad of gentle nudging, but she succeeded 😉

 

 

E thought that was hysterical and insisted on building another tower before huffing and puffing to get that one to fall over, too.

 

Want More Hands-On Learning Ideas using Building Blocks?

 

 

Building Block STEM Challenge Cards from Life Over C’s

Fractions with KORXX Blocks from Still Playing School

Building Block Maze Activity from Mom Inspired Life

Free Printable: Block Scavenger Hunt for Letter Recognition from Play Dough and Popsicles

Fine Motor Development with Blocks from Sugar Aunts

Building Tens Castles (Preschool/Kindergarten Math) from Preschool Powol Packets

Word Family BINGO! from School Time Snippets

Building Block Addition Towers from The Kindergarten Connection

Superhero Alphabet Matching Activity with Blocks from Stir The Wonder

Storytelling with Wooden Blocks: Three Little Pigs from Adventures of Adam

Letter Sound Scavenger Hunt from Raising Little Superheroes

Symmetry with Building Blocks from In The Playroom

Building CVC words with Blocks from Teach me Mommy

Making Patterns with Building Blocks from Play & Learn Everyday

 

 

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