This week explores the letter F through feathers, Frida Kahlo, forest dough, friendship, and more. You’ll also find the weekly book list, poems, and art projects.
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Home Preschool: The Letter E
This week explores the letter E through eyes, Eric Carle, listening eggs, emotions, and more. You’ll also find the weekly book list, poems, and art projects.
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Home Preschool: The Letter D
This week explores the letter D through digging in the dirt, Claude Debussy, dot stickers, dinosaurs, dancing, and more. You’ll also find the weekly book list, poems, and art projects.
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Home Preschool: The Letter C
This week explores the letter C through cardboard, Aaron Copland, carrots, crayons, clouds, and more. You’ll also find the weekly book list, poems, and art projects.
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Home Preschool: The Letter B
This week explores the letter B through birds, blocks, blue, Beethoven, banana bread, and more.
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Home Preschool: The Letter A
This week explores the letter A through animals, Andy Warhol, aluminum foil, and more. You’ll also find the weekly book list, poems, and art projects.
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DIY Alphabet + Number Playmat
We do number and letter activities often and so I wanted to create an inexpensive, but durable mat for number/letter matching, recognition, and counting. I ended up making this simple mat with a rug from Ikea that had never found a good spot in our home. I was super pleased with its simplicity and the boys have enjoyed playing with it. Right now they mostly enjoy the counting side and have shown exceptional preference for counting edible things, like Cheerios. But I like that it’s pretty open ended in how it can be used and can continue to be used down the road for more advanced activities as well, like…
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Wooden Alphabet Blocks
I love using wood for learning materials because of their durability, their aesthetic, their versatility, but it can get costly very quickly. So I started making various learning materials out of these inexpensive tumbling blocks and have been so pleased with them. MATERIALS Jenga Blocks/Generic Wooden Tumbling Blocks Sheet of Adhesive Mailbox Letters INSTRUCTIONS Though it hardly seems necessary… Peel and stick. (If the sticker adhesive begins to fade I plan to seal these with a coat of Mod Podge, but so far they’ve held up just fine without it.) I began with just one sticker per block, but have since gone back and added a second letter to the…
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Free Alphabet Flashcards
Learning through play has become my preferred style of teaching for young ones and so at first the use of flashcards might seem a bit contrary. However, I don’t think that learning through play has to mean the exclusion of flashcards. There are plenty of ways incorporate flashcards to allow the learning to remain playful. During my time as a nanny and now as a mother, I was finding myself writing and rewriting letters on repeat for letter recognition activities, which don’t get me wrong, gets the job done just the same. But I was wearying from doing it over and over. In addition to that, I am always in…
