I'm a teacher at heart. I have taught 5th grade, 1st grade, and preschool as a teacher and just about everything as a substitute teacher. Everywhere I am with my son, Asher, I can't help but point out shapes as we drive, count the flowers we see, and explain new vocabulary as we play. Using an idea for a preschool curriculum I ran across (http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/) as a springboard, I decided to write a short daily activity to do with Asher centered around a letter of the alphabet. The thing that impressed me most about the curriculum on Heavenly Homemakers was that she incorporated service into the lessons. So each week, we choose a person or a few people who's name starts with the letter of the week and give them something that also begins with that letter. For example, this morning Asher gave a flower to Faith at church because it's F week. He absolutely loves giving things to people!! The first week, I had him pick a toy airplane (and a few toy cars) to give to his friend Abrahm because we would see him 2 days later. He was so excited that he insisted we go NOW to give it to Abrahm! I learned very quickly that I need to keep my mouth shut until it's time to do it :). Asher is only 2, so the point right now is for us to have a fun activity to do and expose him to the letters of the alphabet. So here are some of the activities we did for the letter A (subsequent letters to follow in other posts):
- Apples - we got 2 apples off of our apple tree and cut them both in half, each in different ways. I showed him the seeds and let him taste the apple. Then we made apple prints (or stamps) using paint on a paper plate. We then gave an apple to Amanda! (not one with paint on it, of course...)
- Airplanes - I did a search for airplanes on YouTube and we watched a few videos. Asher loved this and watched his favorite one for probably 20 minutes. Except his favorite clip was 90 seconds long, which meant I traveled back and forth to the computer every minute and a half... We also gave a toy airplane to Abrahm.
- Animals - we didn't do much with animals, but there's tons you could do with it...
- Asher's name begins with A, so we started the curriculum on his birthday and spelled out his name a lot.
- There are a bazillion ways to practice letter writing, and for the letter A, we used shaving cream outside. Just spray it on the cement and use your finger to write! Then wipe to erase and do it all over again! He LOVED this!
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