Hands-on Alphabet Fun!

Happy Monday!  That's an awesome thing to hear in the summer!  I have been a busy bee this past week, since I didn't have summer school, and I finished up my Hands-on Alphabet Fun units.

The first unit is filled with interactive fun for letters A-M.

 The second unit is filled with interactive fun for letters N-Z

Letter Pp is a FREE unit so you can preview what each of the units are like.  Click below to check it out for free!

Each unit has a cut outs to make a class bubble map, materials to go on a letter hunt, pictures to hunt for, a recording sheet to color when the pictures are found, a hands on tracing activity, a printing practice game, an independent practice letter identification hunt, a class sorting activity to sort what does and does not begin with the letter sound, and an independent cut/glue sorting activity.

Here are some pictures of my class in action this year with the fun!

Hunting for /m/ pictures with a monster wand

Hunting for /p/ pictures with a paw

Hunting for /l/ pictures with a light

Hunting for /i/ pictures with inchworms

Hunting for /o/ pictures with octopus hats

Hunting for /u/ pictures with umbrella crayons

Hunting for /t/ pictures with turtle shells

Tracing Rr with a robot

 Tracing Mm with a moose

 Tracing Tt with a turtle

Printing Qq with quills in a spin and record game

Printing Tt with a top spinning game

Grab these units this month for only $25, filled with over 325 pages of fun for your young learners!

T-t-t-t-terrific Letter Tt!

This week was all about letter Tt.  To kick off the week we created turtle shells to wear, while going on our letter hunt.

The letter hunt cards and recording sheet are in my Tons of Terrific Fun with Letter Tt on TPT.

(cards to hide around the room)

(recording sheet)

 Click below to purchase it.

We also practiced tracing letter T and t with tiny turtles, then played a spin and record game with tops.

I was so excited for letter Tt week because one of my littles has a pet turtle named Coconut and I was dying to have him at school.

Coconust arrived on Wednesday for a day of fun with pre-k friends.

Since we were also learning about 3D shapes this week, I die-cut cones for everyone and gave them scrap paper to make turtles.  They enjoyed their cone turtles and even started naming them!  (Of course, many were name Coconut or Coconut's Girlfriend.)

What totally terrific Tt activities do you do?

"R" you ready for letter Rr?

We had a roaring great week learning letter Rr.  To start the week we created robot hats to wear as we hunted for letter Rr pictures around the classroom.  When the pictures were discovered, students colored in the picture on their recording sheet.

We also traced letter Rr with robots while singing our letter Rr Heidi Song.

To practice letter sounds, we fed this little Valentine card holder pictures of items that started with /r/.

We ended the week with dressing up as pirates because pirates say /r/.

For added fun, we danced to the Pirate Dance on You Tube.

We also danced to Heidi Songs letter Rr.

 "R" you ready for letter Rr?

Here is my little unit on Teachers Pay Teachers with many hands-on, out of your seat Rr learning fun!  Check it out by clicking on the picture below.  It's FREE until tomorrow evening.

 Grab it fast while it's free or you "R" going to be sorry.

Mind your P's and Q's ~ Learning Letters!

As a Pre-K teacher this year, I get a bit more time to focus on letters and a few sight words.  I started creating alphabet units on TPT to help my cuties learn the letters, sounds, and formation.  I am very proud of our learning this year and we starting to stretch sounds to read CVC words since we have so much letter knowledge under our belts.  These guys are going to be so ready for Kindergarten!  Here is a peek at our learning of letters P and Q.

Hunting for letter Pp pictures with our paws...  In each unit there is a letter hunt and recording sheet, as well as a fun way to hunt for the pictures by wearing or using something that begins with the letter. 

Tracing letter Pp with polar bears... Students place the bear on the picture to know where to begin.  We use Heidi Songs to sing while we trace the letter.  In the unit there are foldable polar bears to use if you don't have small polar bears.  It's also fun to search for small erasers to use for tracing.

We painted letter Pp after practicing the formation.  Heidi Songs letter Pp played over and over while we did this.

We also painted pine cones.

Click below to get this unit on Teachers Pay Teachers.

For letter Qq we hunted for Qq pictures with quills.

We also made queen's crowns.

We practiced tracing Qq with our quills and a spinner game.

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These two units will be free until Monday evening, so grab them now.  Penelope wants you to BEE prepared for teaching Pp and Qq!