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Early Literacy Fun: December 2018

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Clap out the syllables
Help your child learn that the words are made up of syllables. Your child will love to clap, stomp, etc. for each syllable in a word.
in the word
Help your child listen to and listen for the syllables in words.
“De-cem-ber”
2 3 Say the days of 4 5 Clap the syllables 6 Tap out the 7 PA DAY 8 Read a book together.
the week. Say each of 10 things that syllables of the Find 5 words that have 3
day and jump for you see on a walk items that you are syllables. Say the words
each syllable (e.g., outdoors. Include packing into your slowly so you can hear all
Saturday=3) words in your home child’s backpack the syllables.
language. (e.g., paper, book).
9 Name five animals. 10 11 Read a book 12 Clap the 13 14 Look at the 15
Hop for each syllable. together. Pick five syllables in 5 of grocery flyers.
Include words in your ‘longer’ words and your favourite Take turns tapping
home language. say how many foods (e.g., pizza=2, out the number of
syllables there are banana=3, syllables in a word
in each word. waffles=2). (e.g., pear=1).
16 Transportation tap! 17 18 Clap out the 19 20 21 First Day of 22 Use your footsteps to
Think of syllables in each Winter! count syllables. How
transportation items family member’s many syllables/steps in
and ‘tap’ for each name. Whose name winter words like:
syllable in the word has the most snow (1), chilly (2),
(e.g., taxi=2). syllables? snowball (2).
23 24 25 What is the 26 27 Syllable snap! 28 29 One syllable words
Read a book. How next month? How Snap your fingers are the trickiest.
many two syllable many syllables in for each syllable in Practice clapping 1
words can you find? January? the foods you eat. syllable words (e.g., man,
girl, dad).

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