I have a roundup for you with lots of great ideas for reinforcing phonics skills during the summer.
Montessori Phonics
Phonics is a very important part of Montessori education, and outdoor games during the summer (or any time the weather allows) can be a fun way to reinforce phonics skills.
Note: In Montessori education, we teach phonetic sounds before letter names. For any of the activities below, I would emphasize the letter sounds. Also, if you want to follow Montessori tradition, make the letters lowercase for your activities. Of course, set up your activities however works best for you and your child or students.
You can learn more about letter sounds and presenting phonetic activities through the links in this post: DIY Beginning Montessori Phonics for Preschoolers.
20+ Outdoor Phonics Activities
Letter Sound Freeze Dance from Meaningful Mama
Practicing Our ABCs Outside from Rubber Boot and Elf Shoes
Soccer Kick Sounds from JDaniel4’s Mom
Starting Sound Snapping (Photo from Life with Moore Babies
Icy Alphabet I Spy from Lemon Lime Adventures
Caterpillar Crunch Beginning Sound Sort (Photo by From Playdough to Plato) – This post is no longer available
Caterpillar Crunch Beginning Sounds Sort by From Playdough to Plato (This post is no longer available.)
Spray the Letter (Photo from Messy Motherhood)
Watering an Alphabet Garden (Photo from Toddler Approved)
Disappearing Letters: Tracing Practice from Reading Confetti
Digging for Letters by Colleen of Sugar Aunts at Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
Garden ABC Letter Hunt from Fantastic Fun and Learning
Alphabet Game with Water Balloons from Teaching Mama
Outdoor Alphabet Scavenger Hunt from No Time for Flash Cards
Bean Bag Toss from True Aim Education
Beginning Letter Sounds Sort Game from Hands On : As We Grow
Noisy Letter Jump Phonics Game from The Imagination Tree
Outdoor Writing Center from Lalymom
Rock Word Families from The Preschool Toolbox
Gross Motor Phonics Games from Learn Play Imagine
Gross Motor Phonics Game: Walk the Word from Coffee Cups and Crayons
Real & Nonsense Sunny Reading
Montessori-inspired beach language activities using free printables with examples of how you can take almost any phonics activity outdoors – Montessori-Inspired Beach Language Activities
You’ll find a fun activity helping toddlers and preschoolers focus on phonetic sounds – Tactile Nature Letters with Free Printable Letter Templates
Have a great summer! 🙂
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Thank you for sharing this wonderful information— I hope that the Alphabet Box 2 giveaway is for 2014. Great and wonderful idea for the classroom. I am a lead Teacher in a rural Louisiana Head Start. We have been given no funds for supplies for our classroom. So everything is out of pocket or we have to find donations. I plan on using your sand letters and creating a Letter Box. I appreciate all of your ideas and support.
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Deb – thanks so much for the inclusion. This is a great round-up for learning OUTSIDE!:) Our kids would just LIVE there this summer!:)
you are very grateful. I really admire. Thanks
I loved them all! Great list, thanks.
~Heather
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I like the ‘Practicing Our ABCs Outside’
Such a fantastic roundup of ideas! I need to review letters with my boys, and this is the perfect way to do it! Thanks for linking up with The Thoughtful Spot — I’m pinning for later.
Wow I had not idea how much you could do with letters outside, love the leaves and sticks!
What a wonderful collection of ideas to get them outside and learning!
Some great ideas as always!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
Have sidewalk chalk, will learn!
Thanks for including our Nature Letters post in your round up.
Thanks for providing links to all these resources! I wouldn’t have known where to begin looking.
Love these ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful ideas. Can’t wait to start using them!!
Great! Thanks for sharing!
Spray the Letter
Set up the activity by using chalk to write some phonemes on a surface in your outdoor area. Give the children a spray bottle filled with water and ask them to find and spray the phonemes. You can extend this by asking them to find and spray the phonemes needed to spell given words.