*Ways of Learning the Alphabet

Ways of Learning the Alphabet

The name of the letter

Show your child a letter card and ask him/her to tell you the name of the letter.

The way the letter looks

Talk about the shape of the letter.

What is the composition of the letter . . . circles, sticks, tails, etc.?

The sound the letter makes

Show your child a letter card and ask him/her to make the sound that the letter produces.

Remember that each vowel makes two sounds.

The feel and look of the letter in our mouths (look in a mirror)

Focus on the pronunciation of the letter and the production of the sound. Where is the tongue, and what is it doing? Where are your teeth? (It helps to look in a mirror for this exercise.)

I purchased a round makeup mirror with a stand at the local drugstore for this purpose. It was easy for children to handle, easy to store and the magnified side is great.

The movement of the letter as it is written (talk it through in steps)T

alk through the method of producing the letter in printed form.

A word or anchor that children associate with the letter
Example: A, a, apple gives children an anchor to use as a memory tool.

The way the letter looks within a word

* August Kindergarten Family Picnic

We were so excited when the we each found an invitation in our mailbox --- We were invited to a Kindergarten Family Picnic! Our family was invited too!

We met our teacher and played games with the friends who would be in our class. The activities we did were:

1. Hoola Hoops

2. Bean Bag Toss

3. Basket Ball Hoops

4. Parachute

After the activities we had a picnic in the park. This is what we ate:

Hotdogs

Chips

Cookies

Orange Drink

IT WAS A GREAT DAY!

All I Ever Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum

Reprinted from the Kansas City Times,

September 17, 1986
Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned:

Share everything.
Play fair.

Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don't take things that aren't your's.

Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Flush.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life.

Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.

Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really know how or why, but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.
And then, remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.

Ecology and politics and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all - had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with the our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.