This is a new set of Valentine Letter Sounds mats I have made to go with the wooden letter hearts. I purchased the wooden hearts at a craft store, painted them, and wrote letters on them. Each letter is on a color-coded heart. This first set I created can be found here: Valentine Letter Sounds Set 1
If you do not want to paint the wooden hearts, just print out a set of uppercase or lowercase letter hearts to laminate and cut out.
To play this game, children identify the beginning sound in each picture, find the letter heart, and place it on the heart beside the picture. For example, for the picture “table”, children would find a lavendar heart with a T, and place the heart on the lavendar heart on the mat. The color-coding helps them narrow down which letter belongs in each place (since there are only 4-5 letters for each color), and can serve as self-correction. If they choose a yellow heart for the word “table”, they will know they have the wrong letter and need to try again.
Download: Valentine Letter Sounds Game
You can find more heart letter sounds mats and many more Valentine activities on the Valentines Theme page.
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love your website has a great variety of resources for Pre-school teachers and other grade levels thanks, i really enjoy searching for my resources here.
Thanks, Abigail!
I love your website for Pre-K I love your valentine ideas I wanted to share one with you I ellis machine hearts and make a memory game out of allUppercase letters and the children turn over until they make a match and they love it they are learning through playing and they do not even know that they are learning so much!!!!
I love your website! It has interesting teaching ideas to work with our preschoolers. Thanks for sharing it with us!
I love your website and use it often. I hope I may make a suggestion about your Valentine Alphabet Mat. Could you use a picture of something that begins with the short i sound (igloo perhaps) rather than the long i sound (you use ice cream)? You use short sound of e and u and I know in my school at least we teach the short sound of vowels first.
Thanks for all you do!!