En déroulant le tapis, Alex m'a posé des questions sur les lignes brodées; Comment j'avais fait, et surtout, s'il pourrait un jour essayer. J'ai gardé ca dans un coin de ma tete et lui ai présenté l'activité. Il a tout de suite compris ce qu'il devait faire et je pouvais voir clairement qu'il aimait beaucoup trier les objets. On avait: man, marble, dinosaur, die, skateboard, sun, train et tree. Quand il a eu posé tous les objets il m'a demandé si j'avais d'autres objets, car il voulait continuer!
L'activité lui a tellement plu qu'il a été chercher sa mere pour lui montrer, et m'a demandé a garder le tapis et les objets pour la nuit. Le lendemain matin, je l'ai autorisé a l'emmener a l'école pour montrer a sa classe.
Je voudrais refaire cette activité puisqu'elle a eu autant de succés mais je manque de petits objets qui commencent par les sons u, n, k, et tous les autres qu'il a appris. Je trouve dommage de devoir avoir recours a des images, mais je le ferais si besoin. Les objets miniatures jouent un role important il me semble, les enfants les adorent.
Le seul regret que j'ai par rapport a cette activité c'est que les consonnes rouges ne se voient pas tres bien sur le tapis, je devrais en trouver un de couleur plus claire.
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Before the Summer began I have started embroidering a table mat to make it into a decimal mat with columns for units, tens, hundreds and thousands. Like a lot of projects that I start and never finish, it ended up at the bottom of a drawer until last week.
To reinforce the sounds that Alex learns at school (and to be able to observe his progress, especially check that he is not confused with d and t), I wanted to do an activity of sorting objects by their initial sound with him. I have been collecting small objects for a while, with this purpose in mind, activities about sounds and word composition), and I must say that they have proved to be useful.
I prepared the activity based on the sounds that Alex has been learning at school so far, when I rediscovered the decimal mat I had started embroidering what seems like ages ago. I thought it would be perfect for this activity, and it was.
While unrolling the mat, Alex asked me questions about the embroidered lines; How I did it, and whether he would be able to try. Keeping that in a corner of my mind, I presented the activity to him. He immediately understood what to do and I could clearly see that he liked sorting out the objects. We had: man, marble, dinosaur, die, skateboard, sun, train et tree. When he has finished he asked if I had more objects, because he wanted to carry on!
The activity appealed to him so much that he went to get his mother to show her and asked to keep the mat and the objects for the night. The next morning, I allowed him to take it all to school to show his class.
I wanted to do this activity again with different sounds since he liked it so much but I don't have enough little objects beginning with u, n, k and all the other sounds he has been learning. I would rather avoid using pictures, but I will do it if I have no choice. The miniature objects play an important role, the children love them so much.
The only regret I have about this activity would be that the red consonnants cannot be seen clearly against the mat; I guess I have to find a lightly coloured one next time.
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