A home for their hearts Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 I will be starting preschool with my ds4 next week. I've gotten some ideas from letter of the week but thought I would ask here to see if anybody had anything else to add! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELaurie Posted December 31, 2008 Share Posted December 31, 2008 Fun With the Alphabet by Evan Moore. Lots of fun games and activities for preschoolers, including simple stories featuring each of the letters, appetizing foods, and the cutest craft projects I have ever seen for that age group. We had great fun with it when my dc were younger! My only criticism is that the lines for printing are very small, probably closer to the correct size for second grade printing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I'm teaching my dd the letters along with the fingerspelling handshapes. Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lorna Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 The children in my mother's school bring in sticks and twigs in the shape of letters and they are hung on a kind of washing line. It looks great and it is amazing what letters the children have come up with. It gets the child always looking out for letters in everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 If you start a notebook with poems, sayings, pictures, etc. for each letter your nearly 7yo will still be asking to sit down and look at it because of all the memories associated with it. If you add clock poems, number poems, etc. you nearly 7yo will have them memorized because he asked you to read them so many times. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterPan Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Alphabet Art by Judy Press is a fabulous book. It would be everything you need and isn't expensive. For each letter, it has limericks, fingerplays, kinesthetic stuff, a story-line, art project on the letter, art project of animal starting with that letter, etc. Plenty to keep you busy on a letter of the week. We totally enjoyed it at that age and I look forward to using it again! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tonia Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Alphabet Art by Judy Press is a fabulous book. It would be everything you need and isn't expensive. For each letter, it has limericks, fingerplays, kinesthetic stuff, a story-line, art project on the letter, art project of animal starting with that letter, etc. Plenty to keep you busy on a letter of the week. We totally enjoyed it at that age and I look forward to using it again! :) :iagree: This book has lots of cute ideas. Your library might carry a copy that you can look over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnmmomjen Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I agree with Alphabet Art; I have checked it out of the library for months at a time and finally found a used one on Amazon. With shipping, it was less than $5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 My kids used to see if they could use their bodies to make the shapes of the letters. Sometimes it works, sometimes we just get silly. But it is fun and reinforces learning the letter. I also recommend http://www.Elizabethfoss.com for letter of the week activities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jensway Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 We made our own alphabet book. We used card stock paper, in the center of the page I wrote the letter then we cut out pictures of things that started with that letter and glued them on the paper around the letter. Then we put the page in a sheet protector inside of a notebook. For example "A" we found a picture of an ant, aardvark, Alvin(of the chipmunks), apple, airplane and ark. For "B" we used boat, blue, blanket, baby, bike, etc. Every time we had to go somewhere my son always had to bring his "alphabet book" to show everyone what he had made and that he was learning his letters. He loved going through the book in the car and watching for new items that started with a particular letter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted January 3, 2009 Share Posted January 3, 2009 I like Alphabet-theme-a-saurus. Actually I like almost all the theme-a-saurus books. We are doing letter a next week with ds5 now that he is ready to start learning them formally. We are doing As's in the apron, where he is going to have a set of flashcards with various letters and he has to put all the A's in my apron. Also A's on an airplane, picture of a plane on butcher paper, he has a shoebox of toys that and he places all the ones that start with a on the plane. Apple prints on the cut out of A. I bought a big package of Roylco Collage letters, so we will be doing a letter A collage on it. Anthill pictures(finger prints make the ants). We are going to make A's out of playdough, on the white board, little chalk board and magna doodle. I have a bunch of songs/poems I got out of the theme-a-saurus for the letter A as well. I am looking forward to starting with him. We are making little phonics type readers based on each letter from the book called "Alphabet readers". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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