Letter A: Toddler/Preschool Time

My 3yr. old has been a little out of sorts during the school day lately. Then it hit me—she was bored! I needed to do something a little more challenging for her, so she started “Letter Time” this week. Our letter of the week was A. Of course that seems obvious, but actually I picked it because I knew she already recognized the letter since it is a part of her name. I haven’t decided if we’ll go ahead and do all the letters in order or if I’ll switch it up. We’ll see.

Since I’m not one to reinvent the wheel (I don’t have the time!), I purchased Erica’s Letter of the Week Preschool Curriculum. She has printable activities plus a lesson plan for each letter of the alphabet.  My goal is to get all the activities printed, cut, laminated and put in large envelopes sorted by the letters. Then when I need it, all the resources will be together. As I said, it is my goal. It has not become reality yet–lol. Since we are still at the introductory phase with letters, I only printed a couple of activities that were included. I know that we will probably go through the alphabet at least one other time (w/ little sister in tow next year) so I”ll save some for then.

 

  

  

 

Next we did a letter A craft. I got this idea from Totally Tots, who got it from No Time For Flashcards.

Then on Friday our toddler/preschool co-op did apple activities which fit perfectly into our “Letter A” theme— and this wasn’t planned at all. The kids talked about the different colors of apples, read apple books, tasted apples and played an apple game—which they loved!