![]() ![]() ![]() I purposely mixed all the letters up so that the kiddos weren’t dependent on alphabetical order to help them make words. I thought the kiddos might be more excited about the words if they actually got to BE the words!įirst, about 1/2 of my class donned their letters. I immediately thought of our blending and segmenting that we have been working on during our phonemic awareness portion of our day. Second, in the box there are ideas on how to use the vests and an entire list of all the word families you could ever want to make using these vests!Īlso, I don’t know if you noticed or not, but on each vest, one side displays the lowercase letter and the uppercase is printed on the other side!! I also love how the vowels are a different color from the consonants! In addition, there are several extra letters (for a total of 32) so you can spell those words that have double consonants or vowels in them!! They’ve thought of everything!! □ They also have a nifty slot about 2 1/2 inches long right through the top of the letter to help the kiddos take them on and off easily and without ripping the paper! I can tell they are going to stand up to the wear and tear of my Kindergarten classroom. We’ve had so much fun the last two days trying these out! I’ve got lots more ideas on how we are going to use them, but I thought I would get you started with these…įirst, I love these vests because they are made of durable, thick, coated paper. The nice folks at Constructive Playthings sent me a box of these Letter Vests to try out with my kiddos. ![]() Well, today I get to show you what it is! □ Were you able to guess what I couldn’t wait to show you last week? ![]()
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