{"id":1260,"date":"2017-10-23T15:07:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/?p=1260"},"modified":"2017-10-26T15:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T15:08:34","slug":"letter-work-with-dot-stickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/10\/23\/letter-work-with-dot-stickers\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter Work with Dot Stickers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Materials<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1 piece of card stock with the first letter of your child&#8217;s name written on it<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Avery-Self-Adhesive-Removable-Labels-Diameter\/dp\/B000AN36RQ\/ref=sr_1_2?s=office-products&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1473986382&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=blue+dot+stickers\">Blue dots stickers<br \/>\n<\/a>Marker<\/p>\n<p><b>Directions<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Use the marker to draw the first letter in your child&#8217;s name. &nbsp;Be sure to make it nice and big and write the upper case symbol. &nbsp;Say the name of the letter as you draw it and your child&#8217;s name &#8211; &#8220;B for Brian&#8221;. &nbsp;Give your child a sheet of removable blue sticker dots and encourage him to carefully place dots closely together on the linees of the letter. Cover all the lines. &nbsp;Continue to review the letter name and who it represents. Encourage your child to say the name of the letter.<\/p>\n<p><b>Extension Activities<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Look for the same letter around the room (books, magazines, toys, clothing)<\/li>\n<li>Trace the letter using an index finger<\/li>\n<li>Listen for the sound that the letter makes; come up with other words that start with the same sound<\/li>\n<li>Write the letter in sand, salt, or shaving cream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials 1 piece of card stock with the first letter of your child&#8217;s name written on it Blue dots stickers Marker Directions Use the marker to draw the first letter in your child&#8217;s name. &nbsp;Be sure to make it nice and big and write the upper case symbol. &nbsp;Say the name of the letter as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/2017\/10\/23\/letter-work-with-dot-stickers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Letter Work with Dot Stickers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-and-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/acorn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}