Touch Math, Hidden Letters/Words and Sequencing

On Tuesday we were able to start playing with some of our TouchMath printables.  The idea behind touch math is that each number has an equal number of touch points as the numeral is.  So, the number 2 has 2 touch points, etc.  The first printable pages (which we bought here) I used in a couple of different ways.  With my boys we used do-a-dot markers to fill in the empty touch points.

 For preschool on Wednesday we were working on a few different skills.  We repeated putting the sentences in order to match the picture, this time with more independent play.  No one asked about the period at the end of the sentence, are they too young to pick that out yet?

 We also practiced sounding out words by writing on our whiteboard table.  I made the table myself with a shower wall liner board that acts just as well as a white erase board.  We wrote some words and made the sounds of each letter while our marker was under that letter.  We tried to sound out the words faster and faster until they knew what the word said, they picked it up really quickly.

Another group of kids worked on tracing the letters in our Amazing Action Alphabet book and talking about what the letter name and sound is for that letter.

 I've seen this idea on a couple of blogs in the last few months, but I can't find any of them to link them.  If you posted about this too please pipe up so we can see your version.

I used a white crayon to write "Magic Words" or "Magic Letters" on each of the kids sheets (according to the skill set they were working on). 

 They had so much fun finding the magic words and letters!

It just cracks me up how excited they got about it!

 I had the whole class work on our Touch Math number one by putting one sticky back foam shape in/on the touch point at the top of the number one.  They had 3 pages total in their "book".

 We took our number 1 books back downstairs and read "The Napping House".  Each time we read "a" (like, "a snoring granny") we talked about how that means 1 snoring granny, said the number 1, and traced the number 1 in our books with our fingers.

I had drawn my own pictures of this and we retold the story a number of times on the wall.  My pictures were not all that awesome, so I won't post pictures :)