Parking Lot Game

Comment from one of our reviewers: "I did it exactly as directed. Within minutes I was bored with the game, BUT the kids loved it and stayed forever, and new ones were waiting in line for someone to leave! There was a great deal of conversation about the pictures so it's extremely good for oral language—with my group even more important than the phonics." It easily handles children on varying levels.

Objectives

Children participating will be able to gives phonetic sound for letters, identify letters, match letter on card to letter on game board, and children 1-1 ½ years will be able to identify pictures by pointing or gesturing Lang. IB

 
 

Materials

Game board: black paper made into parking lot with a letter in each parking space (use white chalk or crayon); toy cars; phonic picture cards.
Illustrations of game board and cards.

Procedures

1. Each child gets a toy car and a parking lot. Teacher holds up a picture phonic card with a banana and letter B, says, "What sound does "banana" begin with? Can you drive into the parking space which has that letter?"

2. Younger children may need to be shown which parking space letter is the same as the phonetic sound.

3. Proceed in this fashion using different phonic cards and helping children associate the sound with the letter. They can also match the letter on the card to the letter on the parking lot.