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Alphabet - Food For Learning

Carol Hartery's Free Activity Tools

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Includes: Alphabet Grid and Venn Diagram

Hi Everyone!

Sometimes it's fun to play with your food! Sometimes when you play with your food you learn something new!

Nabisco has a product in their 100 calorie line called "Little Letters" Mini Cookies. There are six packages of cookies in each box. There are about 20 cookies in each package. The cookies are just under 1" square and the letters on them are very easy to read.

In a workshop that I presented at the store we started out by estimating how many cookies were in a package. We recorded our estimates in a graphing pocket chart. Then we very carefully cut off the right hand side of the package to get the cookies out of the package. We saved the package..will explain why in a few lines.

We sorted the cookies by letter on a graphing sheet. We compared who had the most As, fewest Ns, etc. We wrote our names on another work mat and sorted the cookies by letters that were and were not in our name.

Carefully cut along the top and bottom edges of the package of cookies. Do not cut along the left side. Staple some pages into the packaging to make a Little Letters snack book. You can have your students use alphabet stamps to stamp some of the letters that they had in their cookies. Then they can trace over the stamps and draw a picture of something that begins with the sound those letters represent.

Sunshine Cheez-Its has a new product called Scrabble Junior Cheez-Its. As of right now they are sold in one pound boxes so if you want to use them with your students you'll want to put about 20 crackers in baggies for each student. These crackers are 1" squares so I have created new workmats for them. As suggested above your students can sort their crackers on the graphing sheet and use the Venn diagram workmat to sort letters that are and are not in their names.

These activities will be fun and tasty for your students, but you'll also want to check out other alphabet products that we carry.  If you can't use food in your classroom, you can substitute letter tiles (pictured at right) to do the same activities. 

Enjoy!

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