SPECIAL
DAYS: One way to help children learn their left from their right is through doing/saying the Pledge Of Allegiance each day as we always place our right hand over our heart.
Easel Project: (This is messy and needs supervision
but it's manageable, fun, sensorial, and is great coordination practice.) While
standing at the easel, have children place one hand on the easel and paint around
it with the other. (They could paint around their right hands on "Right
Day" and their left hands on "Left Day.")
On "Right
Day," challenge children to try and do things using their right hands only,
and then do things with the left hand only on "Left Day":
Build
with the blocks
Eat snack
Paint at the easel
Do a puzzle
Pick
things up
Turn pages of a book
Suzanne
Cantrelle, from New Orleans, La. says: My children (Kindergarten--I have 25)
must walk through the halls in a line with their right finger on their lips.
You can do this with any activity where they have to use that particular arm,
finger, etc. Make this a rule and I guarantee they will know their left
from their right in no time.
Eileen
Johnson-Hauglie, from Washington shares this one: Have children lay
their hands flat down on the table, palms down, then have them straighten their
thumbs as if to greet each other. The left hand with thumb stretched out
forms the letter L... L for left.
Here's
an idea from Reanie, in Aston, Pennsylvania:
A
fun way to teach children left from right is this poem we say every morning before
our Pledge of Alligence:
From
Erin Flint:
Stamp Pads: Using letter stamps with washable ink pads,
you can stamp an "R" on the back of their right hand and an "L"
on the back of their left hand. This way, at a glance, they can see which
is right and which is left.
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