One of the things I like about Word Walls is that they can be adapted for the age of your child or the subject you’re studying. I’ve seen preschool classes with Word Walls and high school classes with them, too. Pretty cool.
All the words from the “old” Word Wall have been moved into the schoolroom, but I decided to leave all the letters up in the playroom. NJoy likes to look at them, name them, & sing his ABC’s with them too much to take them down. Plus, I think they’re cute. 🙂
So, here’s what I’m doing with them now: I’m using them as NJoy’s “Word Wall”. Instead of words, I’m putting up pictures that go with each of the letter of the week themes we’re doing. Even though NJoy likes school, he still prefers to play in the playroom, so he spends quite a bit of time in there during the day. The Word Wall in the schoolroom would also look too cluttered with all these pictures.
After drawing and laminating the pictures, NJoy and KDoll (the little girl I’m watching/homeschooling two days a week) helped me put them on the Word Wall. I would say to them something like, “Hmmm…I want to put up the /b/-/b/-butterfly. Which letter do you think it starts with? Let’s try Z. Zutterfly?” Of course, they giggle and correct me. (This was a sneaky way to stretch their ear for phonological awareness.)
If you want to use these pictures for your Word Wall, feel free to use them. I will warn you: they are hand-drawn and hand-colored. 🙂 Click on the links below to download each picture.
Thank you for joining This Reading Mama on a literacy journey!
~Becky
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Love to see your word wall at home. May I suggest moving it lower down on the wall? I bet you’d see your kids tracing the letters with their fingers and just looking at them more frequently if you had space to move them lower.
I teach preschool-kindergarten teachers, and one thing I always emphasize is placing learning aids at a height where the children can easily see and touch them. Children are very tactile, and often when they say “let me see that” they mean touch/hold it. If you’re working with young children, it helps to kneel when posting things on the wall, to get a better idea of their eye level and arm’s reach.
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Thanks for the suggestion, Krista. I’ve had many thoughts to move it down so it was closer to them. That’s one thing on my “to do” list for this summer…among MANY other things!