Learning the Alphabet

Go on a letter Hunt






A simple bread dough is a perfect medium for children to explore with. It’s easy to make using ingredients you can keep in your storecupboard and I find children always take great pleasure in using ‘real grown-up’ materials. There are lots of ways you can use a bread dough to let your children play with counting, measuring, pouring, cutting. 

Learning activities using food packaging

I am going to use this idea.

My kids love things from outside.

Go fishing for letters

Three day week

This week are learning Uu.  Unicorn and umbrella.  I placed the new puppets and U in the cubbies.  

We made umbrellas today and practiced making U's.

The book today was Duck on a Bike  by David Shannon  It is a cute book.  It is about a duck that is riding a bike and goes and tells all of his animal friends.

Swimming noodle O's

I cut up swimming noodles and placed them in a small pool.

They are the letter of the week. Oo.

Play dough mats

 I made some new play dough mats.

There are faces and you add the eyes, 

nose mouth and etc.

 Learn the letters of the alphabet and 

have fun with play dough too.

Z for zebra

Games

This will be fun to try at home.

Stamping

This looks fun and different.

Rolling pin fun

This would be great for paint or to use in play dough.

Alphabet dominos

This looks like a fun game to play at home with the kids.
I think I will make these.

Lunch

I made Octopus hot dogs, mashed 

potatoes, peas and olives. 

 Boy the kids loved the homemade mashed potatoes.
We had many happy plates today.

Counting with beads and pipe cleaners

 Each pipe cleaner has a number between 1 and 20.

They put that many beads on the pipe cleaner.

It is great for number recognition and counting.

It also works as a great fine motor skill.

Blow Paint Monsters & Bubble Wrap Ocean

We used straws and blew our paint to make monsters.

We drew on mouths and added google eyes.

Today we continued O for Ocean.

We used bubble wrap with paint on it

to make the ocean.

When the paint dries we are going to add sea life.

Tomorrow we are going to do an Octopus

and use cotton balls and paint to decorate it.