Letter of the Week: Aa {Wednesday}

Our third day learning about the letter Aa was great!  Here's what we did today:

1. Show the letter poster and word cards for Aa, just like every other day.  Emphasize that there's an uppercase A and lowercase a, and review the sound.  With the word cards, Miss E automatically said, "Apple, /a/ /a/ /a/" and the same for alligator.  She's definitely able to associate those words with the sound for A!

2. Miss E traced the letters A and a with her finger.

3.  We reread the letter book we made yesterday.  

4. Miss E did a rainbow tracing page.  She didn't spend much time on it.  I think she "gets" how to write the letter Aa and was ready to move on since she knew we were going to play with her rice sensory tub. :)

5. On Wednesdays, I'm going to do a Sensory Tub Letter Sort.  Miss E has had a rainbow rice sensory tub for a long time.  I took out the funnels and scoops and replaced them with letters!  

As a former kindergarten teacher, I'm lucky to have a wide assortment of magnetic and foam letters that I've bought at garage sales over the years.  I think it's important to have uppercase and lowercase versions of the letters, since your child will need to know both eventually!  Here are some uppercase letter magnets and lowercase letter magnets that I own and highly recommend!  I also have an assortment of craft foam letters that I use.

I organize the letter magnets and foam letters in individually-labeled baggies and put them in baskets, like this one:

Then, before today's school time, I put all of the "A's" in the rice sensory tub, along with some random other letters.
  

I showed Miss E how to sort the letters she found.  If she found an A or an a, she put it under the first column.  If it wasn't, she put it under the sad face. She caught on very quickly, with just a little help!

6.  We did a color-sorting activity with some bears I bought for my first year teaching. Here are some similar ones.I bought this cheap veggie tray in the Target dollar section a few years ago.  I demonstrated how to sort the bears by color, and Miss E did very nicely.

7.  Last, we did a number search.  This was a HIT!  I wrote the numbers 0-10 on apple post-it notes.  I happened to have some and they correspond with the letter A theme for this week, but regular post-its work great, too!  I hid them around the living room while Miss E was playing in the kitchen.  I had her go around and find the numbers.  I had her bring me the numbers as she found them and had her tell me what number it was.  She was giggling and running the whole time!  After we did it once, she hid them again for her some of her toys to find.  

See you tomorrow!

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