Alphabet Bingo

Whenever the Pea and me do "Mommy School" we have a letter of the day. All I really do with it is show her the uppercase and lowercase letter and tell her the sound. I name a few things that begin with the letter. Then she has to find it in a stack of flashcards. Since yesterday's letter of the day was Zz we celebrated today by taking a break from the normal routine. I found these Alphabet Bingo cards on Pinterest a while back and have been saving it for a rainy day! They came from www.sassysanctuary.com. The writer of the blog made 8 different cards that you can print out to use with your little one. This is great for letter identification - either learning or assessment/review. Since the Pea already knows all of her uppercase letters, I used this as an assessment/review by calling out letter names randomly using my stack of alphabet cards. The Pea used the Do-a-Dot dotter to mark the letters as they were called.

It was also good hand-eye coordination practice to mark the letter with the dotter since she had to do it carefully so as not to mark the wrong letter. When she filled a row I taught her to yell BINGO, which she enjoyed thoroughly. Then she dotted the rest of her card shouting the letters while she was doing so. She proudly said, "I am going to show Daddy when he gets home!"

Alphabet Bingo can be used with little ones to practice letter identification by holding up the flashcard with the letter on it, naming the letter, and then having her find the letter on her card.