Preschool- Communication/Literacy

Communication/Literacy

Preschoolers are beginning to identify letters of the alphabet.  They may already know all of the letters depending on their development.   The skill of letter recognition can be made fun and interactive with peers with a fun fishing game!  This is a great table top activity that can be facilitated by the educator or left out on a table top for the children to explore on their own.


During implementation of this activity, I asked the children to spell their names by "going fish" for the letters in their names.  I also asked them things like, "Let's see if we can find the letter that "banana" starts with.  I found that this activity also promoted social skills as many of the children helped their peers find letters and younger preschoolers looked to the older ones when unsure.

Materials:

Foam fish with letter magnets (teacher made)

Fishing rods with magnets (teacher made)

Blue pond (teacher made or print out)
Also, it might be neat to put the fish in a fish tank!! (To be used with adult supervision)