Kindergarten Activity No. 37 – A Literacy Game

Feed the Lion Literacy Game.

The aim of this activity is to help children identify the letters of the Maltese alphabet, learn letter sounds and enhance their vocabulary.

 

For this activity you will need:

• Cereal box (to make the lion box)
• Cardboard paper or cereal boxes (to make the alphabet cards)
• An A4 paper
• Colours
• A pair of scissors.
• A black Marker.
• Glue

Preparing the lion face and the alphabet cards

• Start by drawing the face of a lion, big enough to cover a cereal box, on a piece of paper. If you find it difficult to draw the lion’s face you can print one and ask your child to colour it instead.
• Stick the lion face to the cereal box.
• Cut out the lion’s mouth in order to make a mouth hole in the cereal box.
• Make a set of Maltese alphabet cards out of cereal boxes or card. Cut out 30 squares to make cards.
• On each card write a letter of the Maltese alphabet.

a,  b,  ċ,  d,  e,  f,  ġ,  g,  għ,  h,  ħ,  i,  ie, j,  k,  l,  m,  n,  o,  p, q,  r,  s,    t,  u,  v,   w,  x,   ż,  z.

How to play the game

It’s time to feed the lion

1. Ask your child to pick a letter of the alphabet, e.g. the letter ‘a’.
2. Encourage your child to say the letter sound and to find something that starts with ‘a’, e.g. a – ajruplan
3. Once the child finds a word that starts with that letter s/he has chosen, s/he can feed that letter to the lion.
4. Keep on playing the game by picking other letters.

At the end of the activity sing along the ‘Alfabett Malti’ song on you tube:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeM1Trggbw8

Ms. Charlene Farruġia

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