Letter of the Day

The situation: I use all of these for the letter of the day work. 

Read about my setup HERE.

Going clockwise:

Let's learn the Letter books

There are new letter sound books that I will add

Random mini-books

Letter A games- this is a whole set.

Letter Pictures

Read about the letter board HERE.

I can barely carry this thing lol

Soon it will have another book included!

The bad news is that it doesn't all fit inside lol

I am leaning toward hanging folders because 

I need it organized and manageable.

I am up for any other ideas!

All About the Alphabet

Learning Board-

Letter A

Color brown

Shape- square

Numeral- 3


Name Practice-
CCBB Letters

Monday-

Story:  CCBB

Poem: Listen to Song

Alphabet Study: Hand Motions

Fine Motor: ABC Punch Sheet

Science: Coconut Sink/Float

Grab a real coconut and see if it floats or sinks :)
Open it up and explore. Taste!

Math: Number Punch Cards

Art: Letter Daubers

Writing: Light Table Letters

Theme/Life Skills: Sting Letters

Tuesday

Story: Gunnywolf

Poem: Letters from the Alphabet

Alphabet Study: Bingo Game

Fine Motor: Find Your Match

Science: Build a coconut tree (click here to watch a video)

Math:  ABC puzzles in rice
Grab your favorite alphabet puzzle and your choice of filler (rice/sand/beans)

Art: Tree Craft

Writing: Tracing A

Theme/Life Skills: Bean Bag Toss on Boarders
These boarders came from Dollar Tree
Toss a bean bag on chart, child says what the letter is.

Thursday

Story:Cheeky Monkey

Poem: Number Formation Poem
Write on dry erase board.

Alphabet Study: Magnet letters target

Fine Motor: ABC Sorting Mat

 

Science: Pool Letter Stack

Math: LeapFrog Concentration game

Art: #3 play dough 

Writing: Tracing 

Theme/Life Skills: Letter Pop smorgie

Listen to a cute song called Letter Pop!

Friday

Story: Eating through the Alphabet

Poem: Square Shape Poem song

Alphabet Study: Fabric Letters Match with boarder

Fine Motor: Pinning Sheet

Science: Magnetic Letters Sensory Bin  

I grabbed my wands at Dollar Tree.

Math: Sort letters based on # in box

I am going to take a large piece of construction paper and divide it up and write numbers as shown below.

Art: Crayon Rubbings *Make*

I will be making three different ones:

Square 3 A

Writing: Easel writing with markers/pencils/crayons

It's a good idea to have kids try different angles to write on.

Theme/Life Skills: Make Pretzel Letters
Maybe we will just use bread sticks!

Shopping List:
Coconut real
Pool Noodle
Breadsticks (tubes in fridge section)
Magnetic Letters
Magnetic Wand
Hole Punch $0.97 at Walmart
Brown Pom poms
Craft sticks
TP roll
Balloons

Alphabet Antics

Here are some of our alphabet books.  I always want you to remember that you need to use the books you have at home :)  My son loves to read, I've known that I wanted to be a teacher since forever, so  I have been collecting books for most of my life and my mom is also a teacher. I buy books all of the time.  I often try to find books on line to share as well.  This week is really no different.  Use the books you own! :)  

Learning Board-

Color Orange

Trace the Shape- Rhombus/Diamond

Numeral- 16


Name Practice- Cute CCBB letters

Monday-

Story- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Poem- Then listen to it!!!

 

Art~CCBB Tree

I am going to paint Froglet's foot and his hands and add foam letters.

(broken link)

Math/Life Skills/Science Sensory Bin with Letters 

I bought some alphabet pasta at Walmart.  I hope to dye it :) If not, no big deal.

Snack- Scrabble Cheez-its

Tuesday-

Story- Animal Alphabet

Fingerplay- Magnet Match

I am going so high-tech here lol I am going to write on index cards and see if Froglet can match them on our oil drip pan :)  I plan to use my big chunky LeapFrog letters... even though the dog has eaten some of them lol

However, I might print these, because they are cute and I love her artwork. I am going to cut them apart and tape them to the oil drip pan. 

Or use the ones I bought from Target... decisions decisions 

Music- Have Fun Teaching

Math/Life Skills/Science- Bean Bag Toss  

I bought these at Dollar Tree.  They are bulletin board sized.

I am starting with the ones on top.

Lay them out on the floor, so them make a rectangle with them.

Have your child toss a bean bag or pom pom.  Whatever letter they land on have them say the letter.  Or in my case, if my son doesn't know the letter, after giving him time to think, I will say the letter and have him repeat it.

I will use the number ones and the other letter ones at a different time :)

Snack-Alphabet Cookies 
Grabbed these at the Dollar Tree

Thursday-

Story  

Fingerplays- Lettercise

Phonersize 

Alphahardy

Art- Gel Tracing  

Put some hair gel into a zip bag seal with tape unless you're feeling adventurous lol Use the playdough mats underneath.

Math/Life Skills/Science

Alphabet Soup- I am going to dump out some letters and see if Froglet knows any :) I am guessing he will like the dumping out more than anything.
I am going to line a box with felt 
1) to make it softer and 
2) to contain them.

Snack-Alphabet Cereal

Friday-

Story 

Fingerplays- Letter Motions 
I printed them together on one page :) 

Art-Alphabet Letters in dough

Math/Life Skills/Science
Foam Letters with hammer
Remove the letters let your child pound them in to where they belong :)

Snack-Alphabet Shaped Cookies
I thought there were some at WalMart, but I can't find them on the app :(

Shopping List:
Scrabble Cheez-its
Alphabet Squares
Alphabet Cereal
Alphabet Cookies skinny shapes
Rice or alphabet pasta
Food Dye 
Bean bags or large pom-poms
Hair Gel
Zip-Loc bag
Letters
Container
Dough
Foam Letters
Paint
Hammer

Learning Board

I picked up the calendar from Dollar Tree,

but I bought another one from Target's Dollar Spot because

it was Dr Seuss themed. 

I grabbed the words:

*letters

*number

*color

*shape

HERE

I got the weather part HERE

I will add more for the weather later.

We use that blue Sticky-tac to attach the numbers and weather.

I started with only three 

"How I feel today"

grab your set HERE

I will add others soon.

I did color the Vel-Cro dot 

so it was easier to see. 

I started using letter magnets and felt numbers

from Target's Dollar Spot. 

I started this with the ice cream unit and I've already changed it lol

Here is what the side looks like today:

Here's where I store my pieces:

the envelope came from Dollar Tree

Here how I store the weather pieces.

I got the box at Dollar Tree.

I'm already planning on things to add on the side and then the back as well.

It might change to 

"All About a Number"

changing the alphabet line to a number line

Not sure about the Upper/lower case one yet... ;)

The number before and after.

Is it even or odd.

Write number sentences for the "words that start with."

(user upload)

Other things to add:

*Seasons
*Today is, Yesterday was, Tomorrow will be
*Months