Last fall, I found this parking lot idea on Pinterest and made it for my little one. We were working on learning letters and he loved it! Sometimes I would tell him where to park the cars, and sometimes he would tell me!
He has since mastered all the upper case letters so I decided to start working on matching the lower case letters to the uppercase letters. I knew I needed to make him a new parking lot so decided to make this!
I wrote the lower case letters on construction paper and taped it to his cars.
Since I had more spaces than letters, I decided to do the numbers 1-4 in the bottom corner.
This got me thinking of all the different ways I could use this in the classroom! I mean what kid wouldn't love doing this at school?! I work with 2nd graders and know those boys would play this game for hours and not even know they are learning! It would be great for centers, rainy day recess, guided reading group word work activities, and so much more!
Here are some of the ideas I came up with to use in the classroom....
1. Matching lower case letter to upper case letter
2. Matching dots with corresponding number
3. Matching addition or subtraction sentences with number answer
4. Matching number to number word
5. Matching synonym to antonym
6. Matching picture to corresponding beginning letter sound
What are your ideas?!
Please comment below how you would use this in your classroom!
I love the parking lot idea the way you are using it. I made a similar type parking lot once but used numbers as the parking spaces and dominoes were used like cars. It was simply park the dominoes. Students would add up the dots and then park them with the matching sum.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea!! Dice would make the perfect cars- a quick and easy activity to make! Thank you so much for sharing!
DeleteWhat an adorable activity that can be altered to suit so many different types of learning! Letters, numbers, shapes, animals, road signs, the opportunities are ENDLESS! Fabulous :)
ReplyDeleteIt is so true that the opportunities are endless! Thank you so much for sharing some new ideas!!
DeleteYou could also use it to teach colors and color words or numbers and number words.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas!! Thank you for sharing!
DeleteGreat idea! My little one is also working on matching uppercase and lowercase letters...thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteHow fun! It is so neat watching them learn and grow!
DeleteI love this idea! I will probably make one of these for my own daughter just the way you made yours! However, I teach 4th grade so the ideas listed are too young. However, I thought that I could use it to match equivalent fractions, decimals and fractions, and basic multiplication and division facts. I teach it all, but I am more of a math girl myself ;)
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Those are awesome ideas!! I actually had a 5th grade teacher comment on my Facebook page that she would do equivalent fractions- great minds think alike! :) Thank you so much for sharing!
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