Crocodile SNAP! Letter Recognition

Standards:

• 0.10.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
  • Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

Rationale:

This activity can be used as a small group activity, during small group workshop time, or as a center game. This game can be varied for many different things such as word-families, letter sounds, etc. This is an activity that has the students recognizing both upper and lower case letters and matching them with each other. They will say the letter aloud and match the letters.

Materials

• Crocodile Bin
• Matching cards (Upper/Lower case)
• Groups

Motivation:

“Hello friends! Today for our small groups, we are going to play a little game. How many of you have seen an crocodile?” Students respond. “Meet my friend Dilly the crocodile!” Show students the crocodile bin. “We have been learning a lot about our alphabet. Most recently we have learned about upper and lower case letters! Dilly wants to play a wonderful game with you today called crocodile snap so he can see how smart all of our friends are!”

Procedure:

1. To begin, the teacher will show the crocodile bin. The teacher will show the students that the cards will be inside of the crocodile bin and their job is to reach into the bin and pull out a card.
2. Once the students pull out the card from the crocodiles mouth, they will lay the card on the table, say the letter, and then it is the next persons turn. The next student will reach into the crocodiles mouth and pull out a card. The student needs to determine if the card is an Upper case or a Lower case letter, and identify whether or not the card matches on on the table.
3. If the card matches, they place it next to the match and its the next persons turn. The group is able to help out the student if they are troubled or need help. This creates a great collaborative activity where students work on social skills while participating in the game.
4. If the students grab a SNAP! card, the whole group takes their arms and snaps them together like a crocodile mouth, saying “SNAP!” Once this happens all the cards get “eaten” by the crocodile again, shaken up, and the process starts over.
5. The game goes on until all of the matching cards are placed together or until the time is up.

• This activity was found on pinterest: Growing Kinders Blog
  • http://growingkinders.blogspot.com/2013/07/alphabet-fun.html
• The crocodile and matching cards were made by me.