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Digging for Carrot Sight Words Activity

May 23, 2014 by Anna Ranson

Dig for word carrots with this gardening sensory tub sight words activity! A playful way to practise literacy skills and learn new sight words.

Digging for sight words sensory tub

5 year old Cakie has been learning lots of new words as a beginner reader, and many of them are non-phonetic, therefore meaning they need to be learnt by sight. Sight word learning can be extremely boring, especially in some schools which send home word lists to be memorised and ticked off. We have had some fun learning new words in playful, concrete ways, as after all, touching and moving objects helps the brain to retain more information solidly. Carrot sight words literacy game

I set up a simple, fun sensory tub using lots of black beans tipped into a round gardening tray. Then I wrote out lots of small words onto orange card with green card stuck to the top, then cut them out into carrot shapes. I buried them in the beans and presented them to her along with a mini trowel and spade and a list of the same words on carrot shapes drawn onto card. The idea was to dig for the carrots one by one, read the word then find its matching pair on the card.Carrot sight words sensory tub literacy play

She loved the game and was able to find, read and match them all with a little help, then tried to challenge her younger sister to do the same!

Sight word gardening literacy game

 

I will now make her another set of different words to practise, and increase their length each time until she can read the whole vegetable word collection. Perhaps we shall make radishes or potatoes next time!

I will also make a simper version for Pop, who is younger, with just letters of the alphabet to find and match. You could play matching pairs, matching upper to lower case, and learning digraphs and trigraphs too.Carrot sight words sensory tub

What they are learning as they play:

Literacy: recognising common words by sight, matching words together, reading familiar and unfamiliar words

Cakie: 5.7

Pop: 4.2

Bean: 2.3

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Filed Under: Age, Alphabet, Games, Garden, Kinaesthetic Learning, Learn, Literacy, Make, Play, School Age, Sensory, Sensory Tubs, Sight Words, Toys & Games Tagged With: Literacy, Sensory Play, Sight Words

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Comments

  1. Kathleen says

    May 23, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    Fantastic idea! We will gather the supplies to make this activity!

  2. marion spratg says

    May 23, 2014 at 11:45 pm

    Have you any book out

  3. Adele- playfullearners.co.uk says

    May 24, 2014 at 10:23 am

    great idea anna! Little man starts school in September so I cant wait to use this idea once we have got the hang of recognising letters xx

  4. channon says

    May 24, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    What a great idea! I could use other veggies to help my littles with their letters and numbers, too. Thank you for the post 🙂

  5. Prue says

    May 27, 2014 at 10:29 am

    Thanks for the wonderful idea. I made these for my three year old girl. Just using her name, Mummy, Daddy, Nan, Pop and her best friends name. She just loved it! I didn’t have any black beans so used chick peas instead. I’m going to make some for work using shapes to match. This idea is so versatile! I love the tacile, sensory aspect of the beans as well.

  6. Sarah says

    June 17, 2014 at 5:46 pm

    What a brilliant idea! I want to dig around in there too!

  7. Jan vanthomme says

    July 29, 2014 at 7:45 pm

    Thans for the geest idea. I’ll try this with wordt en syllabes in my therapy as speech therapist: but with Dutch wordt of course

  8. Jan vanthomme says

    July 29, 2014 at 7:46 pm

    Thanks for the great idea. I’ll try this with words en syllabes in my therapy as speech therapist: but with Dutch words of course

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