School Bus Spelling

I came up with this easy activity to go along with our "Back to School" theme this week.

LB(3) had fun with it, and it was a good way to practice the sounds of letters with him.

Supplies:

• Construction paper in yellow, black, white, blue
• Scissors
• Glue
• Marker

Prep Work:

• With the yellow paper, cut out a bus shape.
• Then draw on 3-5 windows and cut them out.
• With the black paper, cut out:
• 2 circles for the wheels
• 1-3 rectangles the size of the windows
• With the white paper, cut out:
• appx. 10 rectangles the size of the windows
• appx. 10 strips (to write the words on)

• Glue the bus onto the blue piece of paper & glue the wheels on.
• Draw a rectangle on the bus. This is where you'll place the word strip:

• On the front and backs of the strips of paper, write some simple words. We used some sight words, and some word-family words. Here are the words we used:
• the, and, then, at, 
• bad, had, mad, sad, 
• can, man, tan, 
• bat, cat, hat, mat, sat

• If you use the same words we used, write the following letters on the 10 white rectangles:

Everything's ready. Time to play!

How to Play:

• Sit down with your child and lay out the bus, the words, and all the letters.
• Have them choose a word and place it on the bus.
• Count the letters, if it's a 3 letter word, then place a couple black rectangles in the windows that you won't be using.
• Then have your child find each of the letters in the word, make the sound of the letter, and place it in the bus window:

LB(3) thought this was pretty fun.

But like most 3 year-olds, his attention span was short. We did about 3 words and he was done. :) But there's always tomorrow! I also want to write the letters of his name so he can practice spelling his name too.

Have Fun!

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