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Any day at the ocean, kites are flying. |
| Read: Sam’s Kite Sprodling’s Best Selling Illustrated Children’s Books for Kindle Fire by Sprogling’s Children’s Books and James Fraser.   |
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 | Instructions: As the children learn a letter, attach that letter to the tail of the kite. Display the kite low enough for children to see, and use. Extension Activity 1: Find pictures of items that match the letters. Cut them out and glue to clothespins. Put them in a basket below the kite and letters and let the children put the clothespin next to the letter. Extension Activity 2: Have each child decorate a kite. Help them attach a 3 foot long tail out of ribbon or twine. |
| Cut out 2inch by 2 inch squares. Have each child write the letters on each square. Help the children glue or tape the letters to the kite. It doesn’t matter what order they are in. Display on the bulletin board. Take pictures as children work, and display the pictures next to the child’s kite. |  |
| Provide students with cut-outs of shapes, such as parallelograms, squares, triangles, trapezoids, and rhombus, or instruct the students to cut out these shapes. They can then glue the shapes to a piece of construction paper to make a kite flying scene. |  Every great kite has a tail, include some string for the children to decorate their kite with. You can discuss what the shapes are, what color they are, or how many sides they have. |
| Have the children assemble their kites and count how many bows are on each. Help them write the words one, two, and three under the correct kite. |  |
  | Let’s Count with Kites! Read the book: “Kite Flying” by Grace Lin  |
| Materials Needed:
Directions: Cut out several large kite shapes. Make faces with wiggly eyes, and a smile. |  |
 | Cut out 2 inch by 2 inch squares, and write a number on each square. Cut out several small kites, and have the children decorate them. Add short tails. |
| Instructions: Place a large kite on the table. Have the children choose a number card. Then help the children to count out the number of kites that match the number card. Place the small kites on the large kite. Repeat with another large kite. Extension Activity: Instead of using number cards, use dice or dominoes. |  |
| Cut out four small kites, or one for each letter of the word. Place them on a piece of construction paper and lightly trace the edges to help guide the placement of the pieces. |  |
 | Write one letter in each of the kite shapes as well as on the corresponding shape on the construction paper. Draw a picture of what the word is, in this case we used kite. This project will help children associate the image of the kite with the letters that create the word. |
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