26 Days of the Alphabet: 2016

26 days of the alphabet!

A fun way to teach letters, sounds, writing, listening and recognizing letters and words.

Each blog post will be the fun details of each day. Now let's get learning!
Big thank you to the Children's Library Dept for all the help with locating books and movies!

Letter A

Letter A stands for so many fun words- however I used it to talk about Apples! Our day started with heading to the grocery store to buy one of each apple.
Tracing sheet: http://www.actionalphabet.com/TracingLetters.html
Book we read: The Apple Orchard Riddle
Eating: Apples, Applesauce
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBAuIzZttP4
Activity:
1. We tasted each different apple to pick our favorite. David liked the deep red delicious, I enjoyed the Macintosh and my husband voted hands down for the Fuji. We also cut each apple in half to view the star shape that the seeds in the middle make.

2. We painted with the apple half that we didn't eat

3. Played an apple board game that I found at target. It is called Apples to Apples. You can purchase it here: http://www.target.com/p/apples-to-apples-party-box/-/A-15745307

We made a mess but it was fun! AWESOME DAY!

Letter B

B stands for- Books, Brownies, Bubbles, Brown Bear,

Tracing: http://www.actionalphabet.com/TracingLetters.html

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8M2TvyR3_XE

Brown Bear sheet: http://mrsriccaskindergarten.blogspot.com/2012/07/back-to-school-brown-bear-freebie.html

Book we read: Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Eric Carle

Activities:

1. Brownies

2. Bubbles

3. Birthdays & Balloons- Happy 30th birthday to my husband

Letter C

Tracing: http://www.actionalphabet.com/TracingLetters.html
Book: The Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Eating: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9JAVSruaeA
Activity:
1. Chocolate Chip Cookies

2. Eric Carle Museum
http://www.carlemuseum.org/

3. Caterpillar Craft- David says its a Momma and Baby caterpillar

Letter D

Letter D- D is for DAVID!!

Tracing:http://www.actionalphabet.com/TracingLetters.html
Book: Dinosaur, Dinosaur by Bryon Barton
Movie: Pixar's The Good Dinosaur
Eating: Donuts
Song: http://www.themailbox.com/magazines/poem/dinosaur-poem
We love the letter D- it stands for DINOSAURS and our David. Each morning I would set up our kitchen table with everything that goes with the letter. I realized 4 days into this that I should take a picture to show.
Activity: We had donuts from Dunkin Donuts

2. Went to the CT Science Center to see some Dinosaurs

Letter E

Tracing:http://www.actionalphabet.com/TracingLetters.html
Eating: Eggs
Reading: Green Eggs and Ham
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bQzbduuGlQ
Activities: The envelope game and exercise

1. Yummy Eggs for breakfast

2. Getting some exercise

3. We played an envelope game with site words. I made cards with site words on them and he needed to deliver them to the right word mailbox. I put all the cards in the mailbox with the flag up (it was a sunday) so the day started with David having to go to the mailbox and collect all the mail to deliver. He even took it a step forward and made his own mail truck with the kitchen chairs.

Letter F

This is what our family room looked like when David woke up:

Tracing:http://www.actionalphabet.com/TracingLetters.html

Books: "FireFighter Frank", "A Good Day Fishing", "The Firefighters", "Firefighters to the Rescue"

Eating: goldfish, fruit

Activity: Went to the firehouse and went fishing!

Letter G

Tracing: http://www.actionalphabet.com/TracingLetters.html
Books: "Goodnight Moon" "Giraffes Can't Dance"
Giraffes Can't Dance on video: https://vimeo.com/33829782
Eating: Grilled Cheese, Grapes, Gummy Bears
Activity: Miniature Golfing

1. Working on tracing his G's

2. Miniature Golfing

3. Grilled Cheese, Grapes and maybe even some Gummy bears

Letter H

Tracing: https://vimeo.com/33829782

Book & Video: Horton Hears a Who, The Hat, Hug

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wlv_Ow9UaM

Activities: Feeding the horses at B&B farm, visiting the Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden in Springfield, Massachusetts

1. Feeding the horses at B&B farms

http://bbflowerfarm.com/

2. Visiting the Dr. Seuss Sculpture Garden
https://www.seussinspringfield.org/dr-seuss-memorial-sculpture-garden

3. Reading and watching "Horton Hears a Who"

Letter I

What else would be for letter I then going out for ice cream?

Tracing: http://www.actionalphabet.com/TracingLetters.html
Book" "I love you Already" Jory John & Benji Davies
Video of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpaV6PpV8tI
Movie: Inside Out
Possible day trip: Ikea

Wednesday, September 14, 2016