I was thrilled to see my article for beginning readers was published in Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children Beacon newsletter. My article is titled, “Ignite the Love of Reading“. Let me know what you think. I will be speaking at their annual conference in Grand Rapids on Saturday, March 31 and...
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I was going to fill the dots counting by 4 (for every 4 years for a leap year) but my teaching partner thought to use it also for some of her students that need reinforcing counting by 2′s.  So I left it blank so you can use it for counting, the alphabet or whatever...
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Fill your child’s world with books including ABC books. Read to them daily and often. Have books on tape available so they can listen to a story over and over again as they want to in order to absorb the vocabulary and the rhythm of the words. When reading an ABC story for the...
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Give your child an opportunity to trace letters in a variety of mediums. Not only will it help to imbed the motion in their brain, it will be fun! Here are some ideas that you can use: Similar to many of the activities you can find for practicing spelling words, your child can practicing...
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The following are activities that use a variety of learning styles. Finding out which one your daughter enjoys doing and helps her retain the information is half of the fun. In the car: When driving around town, you can play the classic car game of spotting the letters in the alphabet or just focus...
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ABC Dominoes is played just like dominoes but with letters.  Match the upper case letters to the lower case letters. Materials: dominoes or old business cards print out of letters of the alphabet word doc or PDF 2 sets upper case 2 sets lower case tape scissors Make the Dominoes Print out the letters...
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Matching Games are fun and simple to make. Remember don’t overwhelm her by putting out all 26 letters to match at once. Begin with 1 or 2 that she doesn’t know along with 2 or 3 that she does. Materials: old business cards, 3×5 cards cut in half or card stock markers, letters cut from magazines...
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Materials: cardboard or pizza board spring hinged clothespins marker stickers wrapping paper 1. Cut the cardboard in the shape of a circle (16″ in diameter) or use a pizza board. Pizza boards can be purchased at a local craft store or just ask your favorite pizza place if you can purchase one for a...
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Materials: bottle caps/ping pong balls (or some object that floats) permanent marker paper clip clear tape fishing pole/stick string magnet pool/bucket chart of the alphabet PDF Make the “Fish” Take the bottle caps/ping pong balls and write one letter of the alphabet on each with a permanent marker. Tape a paper clip to each...
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Singing the ABC song as you go about your day with your child singing along with you will help her become familiar with the letters. Youtube has some fun alphabet song videos to watch: Elmo sings the alphabet song from Sesame Street Alphabet Song. Let’s sing with TOONBO There are other ABC songs on...
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