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 Sounds Freeze Dance (Photo from Meaningful Mama)
Letter Sound Freeze Dance from Meaningful Mama
Nature Letters (Photo from Rubber Boots and Elf Shoes)
Practicing Our ABCs Outside from Rubber Boot and Elf Shoes
Interactive Soccer Kick Sounds (Photo from JDaniel4’s Mom)
Soccer Kick Sounds from JDaniel4’s Mom
Starting Sound Snapping (Photo from Life with Moore Babies)
Starting Sound Snapping (Photo from Life with Moore Babies
Icy Alphabet I Spy (Photo from Lemon Lime Adventures)
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)
Spray the Letter (Photo from Messy Motherhood)
Watering an Alphabet Garden (Photo from Toddler Approved)
Watering an Alphabet Garden (Photo from Toddler Approved)
Disappearing Letters – Tracing Practice (Photo from Reading Confetti)
Disappearing Letters: Tracing Practice from Reading Confetti
Digging for Letters (Photo from Sugar Aunts)
Digging for Letters by Colleen of Sugar Aunts at Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
Garden ABC Hunt (Photo from Fantastic Fun and Learning)
Garden ABC Letter Hunt from Fantastic Fun and Learning
Alphabet Game with Water Balloons (Photo from Teaching Mama)
Alphabet Game with Water Balloons from Teaching Mama
Outdoor Alphabet Scavenger Hunt (Photo from No Time for Flash Cards)
Outdoor Alphabet Scavenger Hunt from No Time for Flash Cards
Letter Sounds Bean Bag Toss (Photo from True Aim Education)
Bean Bag Toss from True Aim Education
Beginning Letter Sounds Sort Game (Photo from Hands On As We Grow)
Beginning Letter Sounds Sort Game from Hands On : As We Grow
Noisy Letter Jump Phonics Game (Photo from The Imagination Tree)
Noisy Letter Jump Phonics Game from The Imagination Tree
Outdoor Writing Center (Photo from Lalymom)
Outdoor Writing Center from Lalymom
Rock Word Families (Photo from The Preschool Toolbox)
Rock Word Families from The Preschool Toolbox
Gross Motor Phonics Games (Photo from Learn Play Imagine)
Gross Motor Phonics Games from Learn Play Imagine
Gross Motor Phonics Game – Walk the Word (Photo from Coffee Cups and Crayons)
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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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.
Great! Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful ideas. Can’t wait to start using them!!
Love these ideas. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for providing links to all these resources! I wouldn’t have known where to begin looking.
Thanks for including our Nature Letters post in your round up.
Have sidewalk chalk, will learn!
Some great ideas as always!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
What a wonderful collection of ideas to get them outside and learning!
Wow I had not idea how much you could do with letters outside, love the leaves and sticks!
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.
I like the ‘Practicing Our ABCs Outside’
I loved them all! Great list, thanks.
~Heather
The Meek Moose
you are very grateful. I really admire. Thanks
Deb – thanks so much for the inclusion. This is a great round-up for learning OUTSIDE!:) Our kids would just LIVE there this summer!:)
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.
Thank you
I would live to win.Anything for my boys…
S is for S – sss Summer. I will love to win