Learning the alphabet in pre-k is front and center in our classrooms.
The KEY is making it fun and meaningful for our kids!
Children learn better when they have connections to things.
What better way to learn the alphabet than to start with students' names?
The excitement becomes contagious and as they learn their own names
they want to learn to learn their friends names too!
Bottle Cap Letters is a FREE download on TpT.
My pre-kinders love anything with texture.
Salt trays are a busy place in our room.
Learning is at an optimum when I set up one tray
and call students over for some one on one time to practice writing their name.
EVERYONE wants a turn!
When we do set it up as a center,
a teacher is sure to be sitting at that table to supervise.
Alphabet Mats are a FUN way to practice letters and sounds
with some fine motor practice!
We roll play dough to form the letters, use tweezers
and small objects like pom poms to cover the letters
as well as just picking up objects like glass gems with our little fingers too.
The alphabet mats that I use have two matching pictures
for sound and vocabulary development.
This is especially important for my English Language Learners.
Alphabet games and puzzles are sure to be a crowd pleaser!
A few of our favorites include alphabet fishing, matching spoons and puzzles.
I found several versions of alphabet spoons on Pinterst and then made my own
with Target Dollar Spot stickers. You can follow me on Pinterest HERE.
We offer lots of practice in small group before moving these activities
to the alphabet center for independent play.
We use LOTS of songs, nursery rhymes and poems
to build on oral language, vocabulary and phonological awareness.
One of our daily activities during story time is to learn a new poem.
The rebus pictures help my pre-kinders connect to the text and build vocabulary.
We are working on beginning letters and sounds now,
will move onto medial sounds and
ending sounds as well as sight words later in the year.
On Fridays, my students add the poem to their Poetry Journal and we work on
letters and vocabulary during small groups.
Starting in October, we will send home the Poetry Journals once a month
for students to share with their families.
It becomes one additional way to build that home-school connection.
October Poetry Journals with Rebus Pictures is available
HERE.
