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The ABCs of Learning Toys and Manipulatives: Learning the Alphabet Through Play

By thisreadingmama 31 Comments

The ABCs of Learning Toys and Manipulatives: Learning the Alphabet Through Play 5 Day Series with KBN | This Reading MamaI’m am SUPER PUMPED to join 60+ other amazing bloggers in a 5-day series called The ABCs of…  To see the list of topics and bloggers, you can click here. My topic is The ABCs of Learning Toys and Manipulatives and I am so excited to finally get all these ideas organized into one place!

Why Learning Toys and Manipulatives?

Kids love to learn through play!  What better way to reinforce playing with the letters of the alphabet than through learning toys and mainpulatives?  I’ve taught young children the letters of the alphabet for quite a few years now.  With every letter, I scrounged around, trying to find toys or manipulatives I can pull out that start with the particular letter we’re working on.  And every time, I wonder why don’t I have a go-to list that I can quickly refer to for each letter?  A round-up of toys and manipulatives, if you please.  Well, I will now…and so will you! 🙂

Each day this week, I’ll post a list of learning toys and manipulatives that can accompany each letter.  Some will have links to posts where you can see the idea in action.  Some items will be things from your pantry or bathroom drawers and others will be things you can purchase {that I highly recommend}.

As I post each day, I’ll add the link here so it’s all in one place:

  • Day 1: A-E
  • Day 2: F-J
  • Day 3: K-O
  • Day 4: P-T
  • Day 5: U-Z and Organizational Tips

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Comments

  1. JDaniel4's Mom says

    January 6, 2013 at 3:46 pm

    This is going to be such a great series!

    Reply
  2. wilhcarm says

    January 7, 2013 at 8:29 pm

    Fabulous series! I’m looking forward to reading your posts. You always have valuable advice and ideas. Thank you for leading this blog hop effort for so many bloggers! Pinned! Tweeted!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      January 7, 2013 at 10:15 pm

      Thank you, Carolyn. I appreciate you encouragement. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Cassie @ 3 Dinosaurs says

    January 10, 2013 at 8:46 am

    I love your series so far! so many great ideas!

    Reply

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