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Confession: The alphabet unit is not one of my favorites of the year. Hey, they can't all be my favorites, and it's not that I hate the alphabet unit, I just prefer other units over it. Any lack of enthusiasm I may have had was not at all contagious though. My students were all about the alphabet this month. The Z Was Zapped (Chris Van ...

That's right, February is alphabet month! We're going to fall in the love with letters for Valentine's Day! We kicked off the alphabet awesomeness with The Z Was Zapped (Chris Van Allsburg). This book is magic. Read it to a group of preschoolers and you'll see. On the way to reading class some of them were anxious to get our stories over with so ...

Do your students need Spanish enrichment activities for those times when their work is completed but others in the class need more time and assistance?  Here are some links that can provide some enrichment solutions for them---and you!  Headphones may be needed for some links to keep the peace in the ...

Hi there, I am a first-year kindergarten teacher after substituting for a year. One classroom I subbed in had an alphabet line with silly pictures and a CD of a song that went through the letter sounds with stanzas that matched up to the silly pictures on the line. (A is for a a a apple, but nothing as boring as apple, I can't remember any ...

I teach my students a letter of the alphabet each week. Phew.  I said it.  I know that those are fighting words to some teachers, so I’m prepared to hear why some of you DON’T do a letter of the week.  And also to respect your arguments.  Here’s a little bit about why I do it. When I got my master’s degree, I was ...

Sorry I haven’t posted a new blog for so long, but I’ve been busy with the holidays, especially this year—I hand-made gifts for close family members and friends. It was a lot of work, but a success! I made a photo album for each person and wrote why we loved that person, using the alphabet [...] Related posts:Memorable Hand-Made ...

Here are some ways to use tactile letters to teach the alphabet to your child (an example is pictured at the bottom; click to enlarge): Spread the letters out (on a table or the floor) and ask your child to say the name of each letter. Spread the letters out and ask your child to say the [...]

Well, we did not get to have our pizza party for everyone being able to say the alphabet on their own.  As a parent I taught my children the alphabet song because I thought it helped them to learn their ABC's easier.  If I only knew then what I know now!  It does help them memorize it, but unless you are also saying it with ...

It seems like my first graders and I were always standing in line: going to the bathroom, waiting for specials (PE, art, music, etc.), going to lunch, getting our pictures taken, and on and on and on. So I invented games to play that my children loved and kept them well-behaved while standing in line. For [...]

When I was a first-grade teacher, I started each day, from Day One, with a song about the letters and the sounds they make. It went like this: I would point (with my handy-dandy long pointer) to the letter A and sing, “The ‘A’ says ā-ā-ā or ă-ă-ă.” Then I would point to the letter B [...]