Misc  

Contact_FullName: karen
Contact_Email: karen.durkin@sympatico.ca
date:: 07/04/05
Area: letters

Idea:

to teach my kids the letters, i sewed the whole alphabet. A had apples, C was clouds, H was horses, you get the idea. it took awhile to find the entire alphabet, but it was well worth it!

have the kids sit in a circle
song:
Down at the corner, at the alphabet shop, there were so many letters waiting to be bought.
Along comes (child's name) and s/he took it home.

the child comes and chooses a letter from the bag. we then talk about what's on the letter and if anybody's name starts w/ it etc.

Contact_FullName: Charlotte
Contact_Email: ggncha@aol.com
date:: 11-9-03
Area: Letters, Misc

Idea:

To display the alphabet I made large Chikka Chikka boom boom tree. Each week the children decorate the letter of the week and place it on and around the tree. The children also keep an ongoing journal with the letter of the week to practice printing letters.

Contact_FullName: Cha
Contact_Email: bumble.butt@xtra.co.nz
date:: 10/10/03
Area: Alphabet-Misc

Idea:

The children in my class are really interested in learning the alphabet. To help teach them I have made up a laminated coloured sign that says "Today our password is' This sits on the outside of our door. Each day I change the password i.e Monday is a, Tuesday is j etc. Everyone in the center knows that they must firstly knock on our door, then read out the password. The children always stop and call out "password please' when someone knocks. Even the parents are now doing it too. sometimes during the day I might change the password so the kids always check the letters before re-entering the class.

Contact_FullName: Lauren

Contact_Email: laurenann26@hotmail.com

date:: 08/25/03

Area: Alphabet

Idea:

For a different way to show the letters of the alphabet in your classroom I took rope washline and strung it across my room and then cut out all the letters in the alphabet, decorated them and hung them up with clothes pins!! The kids really enjoy looking at the alphabet!

Contact_FullName: Glenda Harlan

Contact_Email: glendahrln@mymailstation.com

date:: 08-02-03

Area: Alphabet --Miscellaneous

Idea:

Have a new letter each week and ask students to bring items which begin with that letter. Show items in circle time.

Contact_FullName: Samantha

Contact_Email: nickandnacho.prodigy.net

date:: 1/5/03

Area: lettter recognition

Idea:

I work in a 4 year old classroom and I have come up with a real nice way to put up the alphabets. I don't like many things in my room to look to store bought. So instead of buying a running alphabet chart. I first put the letter we are learning on the rug with masking tape. Example "Aa" really big so the kids can see it. Next we talk about all the people in our class whose name starts with the letter "A" and we write their name in the letter "A" Always start the Capital letter with a red marker and the rest of the letters I use a black marker. Next and last I have all the kids whose name start with that letter sit next to it and I take their picture. I always put them on the wall (eye level of course for the kids to see) and I write "Our class Alphabets" This project takes 26 weeks to complete but at the end it looks real nice and the kids not only know "Their" letter but their friends letters also.

We do tactile letter pages for each letter of the alphabet. X is a hard letter to find. I have found in the hardware stores the little spacers used to hold ceramic tiles apart. They look like the letter x.

Contact_FullName: Wendy

Contact_Email: wendy.harris2@ntlworld.com

date:: 11-1-01

Area: Language and Literacy

Idea:

I am an American managing a pre-school in Great Britain. To teach phonics here we use a system called "Jolly Phonics". Every sound in the alphabet has an action and a name. For example, 'A' is called Albert the Ant. The action is for the children to pretend that an ant is crawling up their arm and repeating "a..a..a..". It has proved so successful that nearly every school here uses it.