Letter A Activities

Due to weeks of sicknesses and little interruptions, we just finished with our Letter A activities from all the various resources I mentioned here.  Here are a few pictures from our work.  

Sweetpea loved that she could use the dry erase marker like Buddy and of course chose her favorite color: purple.

Buddy practiced writing letter A's.  He is proficient at capital letter A but is still working on the lower case a.

Tracing lines to his sight words.

Sweetpea "dotting" or circling A's.  Then she colored all over the apple.

Sweetpea and Buddy memorized their "A" verses and I was proud that Buddy managed to learn both with no problem.  Here is a video of Buddy saying his two verses.  Hope you enjoy!  Now on to the Letter B!



Letter Recognition

Sweetpea and I are currently working on her letter recognition skills through several different activities.  The most simple and her favorite is our letter wall.  I typed up the alphabet in a pattern of colors, four letters to a sheet.  After they were printed and cut, I covered them in contact paper to hopefully make them more durable.  Sweetpea helped to hang them in our classroom area as I told her each letter. 
Today we sang the Alphabet Song several times while pointing to each letter as we sang.  Then Sweetpea pushed my hand away and proceeded to point on her own. 

 For the most part, she would point to the right letter as I sang fairly slowly.  But she was so proud of herself when we finished.

Here is a picture of our ABC wall.  It is underneath Buddy's sight words because Sweetpea has loved to pull his words off the wall in the past.  This caused lots of fussing in our household so having her own letters on the wall has actually kept her from touching Buddy's words as much. 

Our ABC wall may be simple but it is effective.  I'm confident that this will help Sweetpea begin to recognize letters quickly.

ABC Coloring Sheets

Sweetpea and I are currently focusing on letter recognition in our times while Buddy is at preschool.  Since she has a shorter attention span, I've been looking for various alphabet activities and came across Pondered in My Heart's Alphabet Coloring Pages. 

While the virtue words are above Sweetpea's head, she loves to color and I thought these would be perfect.  I love that the pictures focus in on a virtue and give a concrete example of how to live out that virtue.  Both Buddy and Sweetpea are coloring these pages and I plan to put them together into a construction paper book for each of them for letter review. 
I think even older children will enjoy these coloring pages and it is a great way to introduce vocabulary about various virtuous character traits.  I hope y'all enjoy these as much as we will! 

ABC Scripture Memory Cards

I Can Teach My Child has created an ABC Printable Scripture Memory Cards set.  I printed out ours this week and love it.

It isn't really for Buddy or Sweetpea at this point but for me.  Currently, Buddy has his own list of scriptures to memorize and when he finishes those, we'll begin this set.  I love how cute the cards are and how easy it is to place in my kitchen.  By placing them in sight, I know that I'll walk past often and stop and work on my personal memorization. 
Stop by I Can Teach My Child and print your own set of ABC Scripture Cards for your family today!