Children explore community signs, symbols, letters, colors, and communication through everyday experiences while discovering how signs help people share information, stay safe, and understand the world around them.
Children investigate signs, symbols, letters, and environmental print while building early literacy skills through observation, conversation, creativity, and hands-on exploration. Children discover that signs communicate important messages in their homes, classrooms, neighborhoods, and communities.
Hands-On Activities
Learning Centers
Literacy Challenges
Printable Resources
Children investigate how signs, symbols, and letters help people communicate.
Children explore how signs provide information, directions, warnings, and messages in everyday environments.
Children discover that letters, pictures, and symbols can represent ideas and meaning.
Children investigate signs found at home, school, stores, roads, and throughout their communities.
Children recognize letters, words, symbols, and environmental print found in everyday life.
Children notice colors, shapes, pictures, and details that help signs communicate meaning.
Children develop vocabulary while explaining signs, symbols, and their ideas.
Children discover how signs help people navigate, communicate, and stay safe.
Community Signs
Alphabet Letters
Markers & Art Supplies
Books About Signs
Labels & Environmental Print
Sign Photographs
Children investigate how signs, symbols, and letters communicate messages in the world around them.
Children observe familiar signs and discuss what each sign communicates and why it is important.
Children explore letters, pictures, and symbols while discovering how they represent meaning.
Children design their own signs using drawings, colors, letters, and symbols.
Children search for signs throughout the classroom, school, and community environment.
Children practice interpreting signs and explaining what messages they share.
Children discover that signs and symbols help people communicate across different communities.
Explore letters, words, labels, books, and environmental print through hands-on reading experiences.
Create signs using drawings, colors, symbols, and creative materials.
Create stores, neighborhoods, roads, and community spaces using signs.
Investigate photographs, symbols, maps, and real-world signs.
Sort signs by shape, color, size, and patterns while exploring classification.
Observe signs around the playground and community while discussing their meanings.
Children become designers and communicators by creating signs that share ideas and information.
Children create labels and signs for classroom areas, materials, and routines.
Children design traffic signs while exploring safety, shapes, and symbols.
Children create signs that communicate ideas, feelings, and helpful messages.
Children discover signs and symbols found in their classroom, home, and community.
Explore Week One →Children investigate how letters, pictures, and symbols communicate meaning.
Explore Week Two →Children design and create signs using imagination and creativity.
Explore Week Three →Children explore how signs help people navigate and communicate.
Explore Week Four →Plan literacy experiences using environmental print, signs, symbols, and communication activities.
Document children's language development, problem solving, creativity, and literacy growth.
Encourage families to explore signs found throughout their homes and communities.
Resources to help children explore letters, symbols, communication, and community signs.
Children match signs and symbols while discussing their meanings.
View PrintableChildren search for letters, words, and symbols throughout their environment.
View PrintableChildren design their own signs using pictures, colors, letters, and messages.
View PrintableFamilies can continue exploring signs, symbols, and communication in everyday life.
Explore neighborhood signs together and discuss what each sign communicates.
Help children discover labels, symbols, and environmental print around the home.
Families can create signs that share helpful messages, ideas, and reminders.
