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20 Letter M Activities for Preschool

Letter development for preschool-age children is extremely important for both motor skills and letter recognition. Throughout the year teachers are constantly looking for creative ways to teach these letters and keep our little minds engaged and excited. We've researched creative learning activities and came up with a list of 20 letter activities for the letter M to bring into your preschool classroom. Make an alphabet activity pack or use them individually. Totally up to you, but either way, enjoy these 20 activities all about the letter M.

M is for mud. What kid doesn't like playing the mud? Head outside and play in nature for a bit with this fun activity OR use brown paint pretending that it's mud. Your students will love getting their hands dirty while tracing this letter shape.

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This super cute activity will be great for students to practice their pre-writing skills. Using pom poms, students will enhance their letter-building skills by working with the structure of the M's, and also students will enjoy the cute little mice.

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Along with most letters, play-doh can make a great letter M activity. Whether you're using centers or whole group, play-doh can help bring the letter to life.

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Monster creations are so much fun for students. After watching a video or reading a story about monsters, have students create their own! Print out an outline or let them use their own imaginations with construction paper and some scissors!

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An all-time favorite activity for young minds is macaroni art! Using things they love while building letters can help them to stay engaged and keep talking about the activity!

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6. M is For Monkey

M is for mice, another mice activity. Letter sheets are fun to have hung around the classroom. Especially when they are student art. This will be a great activity and also can be used with a story!

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Variety of letter use is important in the development of letter recognition. Using different stories and background knowledge will help students to make connections. A mountain activity like this will make a fun connection to the environment!

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M buckets are a great way to engage students in learning and associating their letters. Buckets for all the alphabet letters can be left out in the classroom for students to play with and talk about with each other, with you, or even with parents!

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9. M is For Monkey

Students love monkeys!! This engaging motor activity might be a bit challenging for students, but once they get the monkeys in the right spot they'll be so excited to share!

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Tracing inside a bubble letter like this upper-case and lower-case m will help to enhance students letter building skills. It can be used as an extra activity or as an assessment.

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A great worksheet to practice handwriting skills! Students will love to show off how skilled they are at tracing their upper-case and lower-case m's.

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Rice buckets are part of a very popular alphabet curriculum in Preschool. Students will be so excited to be able to play in the rice sensory bucket! Have them develop and practice their handwriting skills in this creative, hands-on letter activity.

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Including and fostering STEM skills in the lower grades is super important. Using clay in the classroom to help kids build their letters will help them to better understand letter shape and overall structure.

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Shaving cream is a popular way to practice writing alphabet letters! Students will love this messy activity and will be engaged when writing and working with their letters.

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This activity is a great use of motor skills and letter drawing. Enhance your students learning skills with this yarn activity. Have them first trace or draw the letters with crayons and then outline in yarn! Students will have so much with the challenge of this activity.

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16. Circle Dot Tracing

Color coding letters can be super fun for students! They all LOVE stickers and this is a great way to let them use what they love but still be practicing their pre-writing skills.

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Letter M Activities

Grade Level:  Kindergarten

The letter M is an extremely reliable letter.  It only makes the mmmm sound as in mat.  This makes it an easy letter to teach.

The activities are organized from easiest to most difficult.  Feel free to go only part way through the activities depending on the comfort level of the child!

Letter Recognition

• Activity Sheet:  Poem -- circle the capital letter M, underline the lower case letter m.

• Activity Sheet:  Hidden image -- color the capital letter M one color and the lower case m another color to reveal the hidden image.

Words that Begin with the Letter:  

• Activity Sheet:  Say the name of each picture out loud and listen for the Mm sound.
• Activity Sheet:  Modern Manuscript:  Trace (print) the words that begin with the letter m.
• Activity Sheet:  Standard Font:  Trace (print) the words that begin with the letter m.
• Activity Sheet:  Draw a line to the words that begin with the sound of M
• Activity Sheet:  Color the words that begin with the sound of M
• Connect the dots MOON:  Connect the dots to find the hidden picture
• Itsy Bitsy Book:  Little activity book with word that begin with the sound of M.

Words that End with the Letter:    

• Activity Sheet:  Say the name of each picture out loud and listen for the Mm sound.
• Activity Sheet:  Modern Manuscript:  Trace (print) the words that end with the letter m.
• Activity Sheet:  Standard Font:  Trace (print) the words that end with the letter m.

• Activity Sheet:  Draw a line to the words that end with the sound of M
• Activity Sheet:  Color the words that end with the sound of M

Letter M Word Bank:

• mad
• mail
• man
• map
• mat
• match
• milk
• mitten
• mom
• moon
• mop
• mouse
• mouth
• mud
• mug

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Although the activities are geared more to the preschool age group, adding one or two less challenging activities when learning the letters can be a welcome break for the kids and can be given as a bonus activity for those who finish their work early.

• Visit the Alphabuddies for some fun coloring pages and crafts to reinforce learning.
• Visit Coloring ABC's for more coloring pages.

Learn the letter M | Assignments with the letter M

Here you will find primer pages with the letter M, worksheets for preschoolers and first grade students, homework with the letter M for preschoolers, cursive with block and capital letters, speech therapy aids for the development of phonemic perception, sound-letter analysis .

On the first page you need to circle and color the bear that sleeps and sucks its paw in the den. Next, add the printed letter M. In the next task, you need to write the letter M in the empty windows of the house, read the resulting syllables and name the words with these syllables based on the pictures (poppy, hammer, mouse, bear).

Then add the letter M and read. And at the end, paint over the parts of the mosaic with the letter M.

M card for 4-5 year olds.

Coloring book with a bear to learn the letter M.

Children 4-5 years old get acquainted with the sound and the letter M, write it with their finger, then trace it along the lines and hatch in different directions.

From a set of pictures, the child names those in which he hears the sound [M], from a number of letters he underlines only the letter M. Together with an adult, the child makes a sound-letter analysis of words ball, gnome, winter.

Y. Fisher “Workbook No. 5 for children 4-5 years old “Letters”

Tasks with the letter M for preschoolers of the preparatory group. Children need to continue the pattern, write a printed letter M, choose the letter M from the suggested ones, complete the pictures so that they become the same, add the printed letter M.

Oksana Gomzyak “I will write correctly. Album of exercises for the prevention of writing disorders in children of the preparatory group "

At the discretion of the adult, the printed letter M can be colored or hatched. Next, the children write down the printed letter M. After that, they determine the place of the sound M in the words: bridge, dwarf, lemon. They are indicated graphically in the tables in blue or green (soft and hard sounds).

Find all the letters M in the picture and color them.

Tasks for learning the letter M and learning to read. Children get acquainted with the letter and immediately read the syllables and words with the studied letter. In the card, everything that is written in red is read by an adult. nine0003

Source: Valeria Ivleva "Steps to Reading"

Tasks for preschoolers to develop fine motor skills with the letter M:

• draw pots of honey for a clubfoot bear;
• write the letter M;
• guess the picture and count the mice in the picture;
• write the script.

Tasks for determining the position of the sound M - at the beginning, middle, end of a word. The sheets can be used as coloring books to study sound. nine0003

The author of the manual: Kosenko Yu. A. "Learning to read and write"

Copy-book with the letter M

Copy-book with the letter M (capital, printed). From the tasks - finding the letter M among the letter row, coloring fragments of the picture with the letters M, finding identical pairs (development of logical thinking, visual perception), search for words.

Spelling with M

Tasks with the letter M for speech therapists, speech pathologists

On the page of the primer, the concepts of hard and soft sound [M] are given. Children learn to merge closed and open syllables, then words, phrases and sentences.

Natalia Tegipko "Speech therapy primer"

Tasks for children aged 5-6 to correct optical dysgraphia. Such exercises help memorize the visual image of the letter M, the difference between the letter and its spelling.

Svetlana Yakovleva "I recognize the letters - 1"

I. Vasilyeva "Druzhok: Lessons of a speech therapist. Learning letters»

Natalia Mironova “We develop phonemic perception in children of the preparatory logo group. Exercise Album

Vilena Konovalenko “We write and read. Notebook number 1. Teaching literacy to children of senior preschool age "

The guys determine the vowel or consonant sound [M] , circle the letter M along the line and print it, color the circles under those pictures that start with sound [M] , determine the softness and hardness of the sound, respectively paint over the squares in blue or green, find in the picture as many words as possible that start with the letter M .

N.V. Pronina "Teaching literacy"

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Assignments with the letter M for students of grade 1

Compiled by: Koptik S.A. "Workbook of speech therapy classes for 1st grade students"

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Rozova, Korobchenko "Learning letters! Speech therapy classes in the period of literacy. Workbook. 1 hour"
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THE MOST COMMON MISTAKES MADE BY ADULTS WHEN TEACHING CHILDREN TO READ AT HOME. – MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 10 “Teremok"

THE MOST COMMON MISTAKES

MADE BY ADULTS WHEN TEACHING CHILDREN TO READ AT HOME.

• Learning to read is based not on letters, but on SOUND. Before showing the child a new letter, for example M, you should teach him to hear the sound [M] in syllables, words. Throughout the entire period of study at home, sounds should be called, and the letters corresponding to them EQUALLY, i. e. the way it sounds. Take, for example, the sound [M]. We pronounce it abruptly. And the letter must be called the same. By no means EM or ME! Saying this, we call two sounds at once (E, M). This circumstance only disorientates children. And yet, dear adults, please do not mix the concepts of SOUND and LETTER when teaching a child to read. nine0068
• The second blunder is in teaching letter-by-letter reading, i.e. the child first calls the letters of the syllable: M! AND! - and only after that we read the syllable itself: MA! This habit of misreading is very persistent and is corrected with great difficulty.

Correct reading is reading in syllables (of course, at the initial stage). And let at the beginning of training, the child reads (pulls) the first letter of the syllable for as long as he likes, until he figure out what the next letter is: MMMA. At the same time, the child translates the pointer from letter to letter. nine0003

If only he didn't stop after the first letter!

If only I could read the letters of the syllable together!

The reasons why a child refuses to read independently can be different. Does not want to read because it is difficult for him or because he has no interest in the book as such and he does not realize the value of reading books. He can see the careless attitude to the parents' book. After all, the culture of handling a book, interest in it is laid in the family.

Even if there is a cult of books in the family, remember that independent reading is always difficult for children at first. This must be understood and treated with compassion. How simple it seemed to the child: I will learn the letters and you can read. But what a disappointment awaits him - he knows the letters, but it is so difficult to put them together. It must be explained that at the beginning it was just as difficult for adults to learn to read, but work and patience helped. First of all, you, adults, must be patient, despite the lack of time and the irritation that grips you. nine0003

Never compare a child with the neighbor Sasha, do not use a conclusion like: “So you will never learn to read!”.

The novelty factor of a book is of great importance. If the child is familiar with the work, he will stray into retelling, guesswork. So, it is better to take new literature, but interesting and accessible without incomprehensible and complex words.

It is good to take your child to the library or shop and choose a book according to his desire. In this case, interest in reading will increase. Remember that the first reading is reading aloud. nine0003

Have him say what he is reading.

We invite you to cooperate and wish you success!

Speech development by age We are all looking forward to our baby's first word. And this is understandable - the appearance of speech is one of the most important indicators of the normal mental development of the child. And now the first word has already been said, but what's next? What should a child be able to do at 2-4 years old, 5-6 years old? To this question, which worries many parents, we will try to give a short answer. nine0003
	At the age of 1.5-2, a child can speak about 50-70 words, mostly nouns: the names of toys and objects of the immediate environment; names; adverbs "here" and "now"; adjectives "big" and "small", less often - verbs, personal pronouns. In the second year of life, children quite clearly begin to pronounce such vowel sounds as [a], [y], [o], [and]; sounds [e], [s] can be replaced by consonance [ye]. Babies replace some consonants with simpler, more accessible ones, distort sounds or do not pronounce them at all. Their speech is replete with soft consonants [t '], [d '], [s '], [h ']. At this age, a simplified pronunciation of words is possible, for example, shortening or naming a syllable, most often stressed or the first: “ko” or “moko” instead of milk. By the age of two, simple sentences, requests should appear in the speech of the crumbs: “Mom, give me the ball. Bear, sit here. I want to drink juice! nine0003
	By the age of 3, the child asks a lot of questions, willingly answers questions himself, with pleasure memorizes little rhymes and songs, nursery rhymes and counting rhymes. By this age, he usually correctly pronounces vowels and consonants ([b], [b], [n], [p], [m], [m], [t], [t], [n], [n ], [k], [kb], [g], [gb], [c], [vy], [f], [f]). Children of 3 years old already speak in extended sentences.
	By the age of 4, the baby correctly pronounces whistling sounds: [s], [s], [s], [s], uses complex sentences in speech: “I like to draw with paints, because they are multi-colored,” talks about what he saw on a walk that they read to him. nine0222
	By the age of 5, the child correctly pronounces hissing sounds: [w], [g], almost does not make grammatical errors in speech, can coherently talk about what is shown in the picture or a series of pictures. Statements become quite lengthy, a certain logic of presentation is captured. Often in the stories there are elements of fantasy, a desire to come up with episodes that did not really exist.
	At the age of 6, a normally developing child correctly pronounces all the sounds of his native language, practically does not allow grammatical errors in his speech. The most striking characteristic of this age is the active development of the construction of different types of texts. The child masters the form of a monologue. Speech becomes contextual, independent of the visually presented situation of communication. Improving the grammatical structure directly depends on the development of coherent speech. nine0222

What are the sounds of the Russian language? This is especially true for distinguishing the sounds of the Russian language. Of course, our school years are far behind us, and some knowledge has to be updated again. Therefore, in order to be an assistant in learning for a child, let us recall some features of the sounds of the Russian language, which are so necessary when performing a sound analysis of syllables and words. nine0002 In Russian, 42 speech sounds are distinguished, which are divided into vowels and consonants. There are only 6 vowels, and 36 consonants.

When pronouncing vowels, the vocal folds vibrate and air passes freely through the oral cavity. Therefore, when studying vowel sounds with children, we draw their attention to the fact that nothing prevents us from pronouncing these sounds. This is the main difference between vowels and consonants.

When pronouncing consonant sounds in the oral cavity, obstacles arise in the way of the outgoing air in the form of various speech organs, such as lips, teeth and tongue. Some consonants are pronounced with the participation of the voice and are called voiced, others are pronounced without a voice and are called deaf. The so-called paired consonants deserve special attention, when a voiced consonant has a pair in the form of a voiceless consonant. Their pronunciation is distinguished by the presence or absence of a voice. nine0003

The presented table clearly shows what paired sounds are in terms of sonority - deafness.

PAIR CONSONANTS
Voiced	Blind
B, B	P, Pb
V, Vb	F, Fb	nine0213
G, G	K, Kb
D, D	T, T	UNPAIRED CONSONANTS
W	W	Voiced	Blind
3, 3b	C, C	Y L, L M, Mb H, Hb R, Pb	H C W X, X

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