Alphabet Walk

Make binoculars with your children out of toilet paper rolls or paper towel rolls. Cover them with construction paper and decorate them with markers, crayons, sticker, etc. Hole punch two holes (one on each side of the binoculars) and tie a string to go around their necks. Then take them on a walk around the neighborhood and look for letters on signs, houses, license plates, cars, etc. Have the children call out the letters they see and try to sound out the words. You could also do this same thing with shapes, colors, or numbers.

Dinosaur page

Literacy, ABC’s Activity to go with the letter

D is for dinosaur. Do letter page for alphabet book.Using “dinosaur bones” (Pasta or Q-tip) make a Dd page

Dinosaur Fishing Game

Dinosaur Shape Fishing Game

Tie 3 feet of string to a wooden spoon. Attach a magnet to the end of the string. Cut and laminate many different colored dinosaur shapes from construction paper (not too big though). Attach a paper clip to each dinosaur shape. Spread the dinosaur shapes on the floor and let your child try to catch the dinosaur shape. Have them try to catch the biggest dinosaur or the red dinosaur. For a twist, label the dinosaur shapes with letters or numbers.

Alphabet Book

Make an Alphabet Book. Each page has a different letter on it. Let the children draw pictures that begin with each letter. Example: draw Bugs on the B page of your Alphabet Book.

This could be a good on-going craft and/or activity that would help the children learn their Letters.

Books about Bugs

• The Grouchy Ladybug-Eric Carle
• Effie
• The Very Hungry Catipillar-Eric Carle (I made this one into a flannelboard story and the kids absolutely love it. It helps with retelling a story, counting, and days of the week.)
  
• The Lonely Firefly-Eric Carle
• 10 Little Ladybugs
• Inch by Inch
• The Ants Go Marching
• Miss Spiders ABCs (A fun activity to do with this is to get foam letters with sticky backs. Let the children put them all over a paper plate. Then put little cuts around the edge of the paper plate and take a piece of yarn and make a web around the plate.)
  

Literacy, ABC's Activity to go with the letter

In a box place items that start with the letter B, ball, banana, bandage, basket, bat, bear, bell, belt, bib, blanket, block, book, boot, bottle, bowl, brush, butterfly and so on. Take each one out and have your child tell you what each one is. - or- Do a "B"ackwards day - have a race walking backwards, or you can wear your clothes backwards.

This can be done for any letter. Just choose objects that begin with the letter that you are teaching. This is a good activity to use during circle time