We recently introduced the letter J in our classroom. Â To work on recognizing this new letter and its sound, we played this super simple and ridiculously fun game…
Our morning began as it usually does with our circle time routine. Â Mr. Hayden led the children in our hello song, reviewed the weather, and then introduced our newest letter of the alphabet: J…
Mr. Hayden then invited the children to stop by sometime throughout the day to come up and circle a J on our alphabet chart…
After introducing a new letter, we like to reinforce the children’s understanding with a fun game or activity. Â This activity that we threw together for the letter Jj couldn’t possibly be any simpler to put together. Â Mr. Hayden wrote out all of the letters that we have highlighted during circletime up until this point, A-J, on sentence strips. Â He added in several extra Jj cards…
Mr. Hayden asked all of the children to stand up to play this game. Â The children watched as he held up one card at a time. Â If the card had the letter Jj on it, the children were supposed to jump…
If the letter was not a Jj, the children were to stand still…
This was such a great way to practice letter recognition!  The children were practicing their large motor skills by jumping.  They were practicing  listening and attention skills and self-control to know when to start and stop jumping.  All the while learning their new letter Jj and reviewing all of their other letters…
To catch a sneak peak of our Jj is for jump game, please click on the video below…
Super simple and super fun!
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