Spring Beginning Sounds Game for Preschoolers -

Spring Beginning Sounds Game for Preschoolers

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Spring is coming, and the FREE Spring Beginning Sounds Game is the perfect literacy activity for your preschoolers. It is also a good resource to add to your Spring theme.

This FREE literacy activity includes a spinner, a recording sheet, and 24 picture cards, and you can download it at the end of this post.

Spring Beginning Sounds Game

This fun, hands-on activity keeps children engaged and interested. This Spring Beginning Sounds Game is easy to use and helps preschoolers develop skills such as concentration, vocabulary, phonemic awareness, one-to-one correspondence, and fine motor skills.

This Spring Beginning Sounds Game can be used in many ways, such as:

Small group activity.
Literacy center option.
Writing center activity.
Take-home activity.
Quiet area option.

How to Set It Up

This easy-to-prep game just requires a handful of materials. These are:

Spring Beginning Sounds Game (FREE at the end of this post).
Printer.
White cardstock.
Scissors.
Laminator.
Laminator pouches.
Dot-to-Dot markers, mini erasers, bingo chips, or any other small manipulatives.

Print all the pages on White cardstock. Cut them apart and laminate them for multiple uses. Place them on a tray or basket. Preschoolers spin the spinner, find a picture card with an object or animal whose name starts with the letter whose sound the spinner landed on, and mark the picture on the recording sheet with a dot-to-dot marker, mini eraser, bingo chip, or another small manipulative.

Spring Beginning Sounds Game's Spinner — Spring Beginning Sounds Game’s Spinner

Spring Beginning Sounds Game's Recording Sheet — Spring Beginning Sounds Game’s Recording Sheet

I will suggest making several sets and placing them in different centers to entice the children and give them the opportunity to use this activity.

You can even use the picture cards during circle time to review the names of the objects and animals that appear in each of them, and review the letter names and sounds as well, before you let them adventure on their own.

Benefits of The Spring Beginning Sounds Game

This Spring Beginning Sounds Game will help your preschoolers develop essential skills while having fun, such as:

Phonemic Awareness – Preschoolers learn that spoken words are made up of individual sounds, which lays the foundation for blending those sounds and eventually reading words.

Letter-Sound Correspondence – helping children associate specific letters with their initial sounds.

Vocabulary – this game helps children learn new words.

One-to-One Correspondence – when they have to match the beginning sound with the correct picture and the image on the recording sheet.

Sensory Development – because they are using some of their senses to play the game.

Eye and Hand Coordination – when they see the picture and place the bingo chip in the appropriate square.

Concentration and Memory Development – increases their attention span when they focus on getting it right.

Social Skills – when they take turns and communicate with other players.

Fine Motor Development – when they move their hands and fingers while playing the game.

Visual Discrimination – when they look at the pictures and are able to match them with the one in their beginning sounds and on the recording sheet.

Extension Activities:

To extend the activity, you can:

Have the children trace or copy the letters.
Match each letter with plastic, wooden, or foam letters.
Find other words that start with the same sound.
Invite them to try to spell the words.
Sort the picture cards by beginning sounds or categories.

Spring-related Books

Don’t forget to read to your preschoolers every day. Below are some good spring books you can use. You can find them all at your local library, used bookstores, and Amazon. If you want to add some to your collection permanently, click on the titles to go directly to Amazon through my links.

Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring by Kenard Pak. This story is about a boy and his dog exploring nature as they say goodbye to winter and hello to spring.

I Am Spring by Rebecca and James McDonald. This story takes young children on a journey as the day grows longer, leaves begin to sprout, and bugs and animals that were hiding start to reappear, teaching young learners about the important changes that happen during Spring.

I See Spring by Charles Ghigna. This story celebrates Spring with a rhyming, easy-to-read text about raindrops, robins, bluebells, and butterflies!

It Just Blooms by Deanna Chesley. This story helps children of all ages understand that they are perfect just the way they are and can bloom in their own special way at their own perfect time!
Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn. This story is about Lola and her mom planting sunflower seeds together and creating a beautiful garden where she and her friends eat cakes, punch, and read a story among the flowers.

Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. This book teaches young children about colors and flowers.

Spring is Here by Will Hillenbrand. This cute story tells of a mole trying to wake his bear friend from his long winter nap and bake a special springtime treat. A perfect read-aloud, full of simple sounds and lots of repetition, Spring is Here is ideal for sharing with young readers to celebrate the changing seasons.

The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. A classic story about the life cycle of a flower, told through the adventures of a tiny seed, is perfect for children to act out and to use as inspiration for creating their own wildflower garden.

Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner. This sweet story talks about things you see in the garden, like leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit, but also about the world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home.

When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes. This author uses striking imagery, repetition, and alliteration to introduce basic language concepts and the changing seasons.

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