I have been wanting to put together sequencing pictures for Little Man for some time now. He hasn’t been ready to work with them, so I put it on the back burner for a time. Now, I am thinking about it again. I know there are plenty of ready-made sets that we can buy. I want to personalize it more for him. So, I am thinking about making my own using things we do on a regular basis.
A simple one is a trip to the library. We could easily make this a 4 picture set for him. 1. a picture of the library; 2. a picture of the children’s area where he likes to play; 3. a picture of us picking out a book; and 4. a picture of us checking out the book.
Little Man likes to help me make bread. Again, this is an easy 5-step sequence. 1. mixing the dough, 2. bread rising in the pans, 3. putting the bread in the oven to bake, 4. removing the bread from the pans, 5. Little Man eating a slice of the bread
You can also make your own story sequencing cards by finding pictures to match significant points in the story. One example could be the story of Noah & the Ark. Find pictures to represent Noah kneeling as though in prayer, Noah building the ark, The animals going in the ark, the ark in the sea of flood waters, Noah and the dove with a sprig of greenery, and the animals leaving the ark.
Making the sequencing cards personal to the child will hold their interest. The topics are about something that they enjoy. If you go to Homeschool Share website, you can find under the lapbooking resources a lapbook for the story “The Hungry Caterpillar” which contained sequencing cards. That is a favorite story around here!
A search on Google for “printable sequencing cards” can bring up resources also. Teacher websites and blogs of teachers and homeschooling families are options in finding the cards also. Many are designed by the teacher/homeschool parent.
In making the cards, it is my goal to help Little Man to remember the time line sequences in stories. This can carry over into other academics later on. In the immediate, the sequencing practice will benefit him as we put together and begin working with a visual schedule. He will be learning the concept of “first we do this, then we do that.”
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