Fishing for words!

In their handmade boats, the kids learned to read by fishing for words (or letters and shapes!) We made some small boats out of cardboard boxes. Then gathered sticks from the backyard, tied string to the end of the stick and hot glued a magnet to the other end of the string.

We then cut out several different colored fish shapes. I wrote letters, colors and shapes on the fish for Canyon (beginning reading) and 3 letter words for Sierra in the beginning phase of her learning to read. Each fish was topped of with a paperclip on his mouth.

Time to Fish! When we cast the fishing rod out, the magnet would do it's trick and catch a fish! Sierra was so excited to reel it in that she didn't even think twice about sounding out the letter formation on each catch!