I am teaching young children again! Not my own children this time, but the children of a very good friend. See our original post about this new adventure here. Each week I plan to share our plans, which I did for week 1 here, and I also plan to share after our week is done so you can see my students in action!
I am excited to share all about our first week together, with a focus on the LETTER A! In addition to a letter focus each week I am using All About Reading Pre-Reading with them. Since I only have my students two days a week, we cram a lot into a short time! I also provide their parents with activities to do at home also.
All About Reading Lessons
This past week we enjoyed lessons 1-5 in AAR Pre-Reading. I am not doing the letter crafts from AAR in the order of the lessons, but am going to use those with our letter of the week focus. We are moving quickly through the activities that focus on other pre-reading skills and right now the emphasis is RHYMING! The kids loved all of the fun games and Ziggy the Zebra! We also completed the A is for Alligator craft page!
One of our weekly activities is a freebie from All About Reading called “Feed the Puppy.” With this fun, hands-on activity, they will work on identifying upper and lowercase letters. Each week I will go through the cards with them and they can only feed the puppy the letters they can identify, which is highly motivating to them since they want the puppy to get lots of bones! Highly recommend this activity if you have kids working on letter identification.
Letter A Fun
We enjoyed several different activities, most from my site! I will link everything we used below!
Everything shown in this collage is included with our Ultimate Kindergarten @ Home Membership – which is the best way to get your hands on everything we offer, see the cost savings here!
Below you can see AK and Ki doing the following activities {clockwise from top left}:
- Upper/Lowercase Letter Sort
- ABC Find It!
- Read & Write the Room {grab Letter A for free here!}
- Beginning Sound Maze {grab Letter A for free here!}
- What Begins With A?
- Letter A Maze
Activities we did that aren’t pictured:
I also really love the Fine Motor Alphabet Bundle from Crafty Classroom! The kids enjoyed the following activities this week:
- Listening Skills
- Letter Path Trace
- Cuisenaire Letters
Raising Lil Rock Stars Letter A
I didn’t get any action shots, but we enjoyed the verse bracelets, and tracing pages this week in addition to the items on the display board!
Letter A Toys & Puzzles
I love setting up fun letter displays and playing with the items. See more ideas here! Here’s our Letter A set-up:
Some of the items pictured below, see even more alphabet toy ideas here!
Letter A Books
We read tons of books featuring the Letter A! See all of our Letter A book ideas here!