M&M Word Game

This has been one our favorite games to play with the kids, because it can be played in so many skill levels and you get M&M's!

Demitri's Level: ABC's! 

Demitri really struggles with knowing the names of the letters, because he loves naming them himself. For example the letter E he calls a stick with three pokies. His imagination is so funny, because he is always right about what the letters look like, but I would never have seen that when looking at the letter. He is teaching me how to see things out of his eyes. Maybe he is the key to writing a best seller ABC book that relates well to little boys!

I love this black out game, because he is not good at recognizing the proper name for a letter. So we set the board up alphabetically. He finds the match on the board and then we sing the ABC's that he has memorized to figure out what the letter should be. Then when he is able to name the letter, he is able to eat the M&M. When a letter on the board is missing its M&M, it is his job to make sure and say the letters name while we are singing. We play till he is tired of trying to remember the letters, and then we stop. No Pressure to finish the whole board!

Additional benefits of this game is I can talk colors with him. I initially thought he might be colored blind when he was younger, but he is the best color blender ever. I am excited to see what this boy paints in the future!

Daphney's Level: Sight Words!

Daphney loves playing this game! She sits on the other side of the table so that she can do her board while Demitri does his and I can help them both at the same time. However, I have to keep her from constantly wanting to help Demitri.

For Daphney she reads the word before finding the word on the board. While she is looking for it on the board I will talk ordinal numbers with her for example: look in the 3rd column or 5th row. So, she is learning that vocabulary at the same time.

*Helpful Hints: I love using the plastic paper sleeves, because as you can see in the movie slobber can get on them from the candies and be easily washed off,  But also after we play we just insert the slips of paper back into the sleeve so they are safe till next time! Lastly, if he gets bored and daph is still doing things he can use a dry erase marker to trace the letters on the board.