One of the great ways for preschoolers to learn their letters and phonetic sounds is by doing Letter Art. Each weekly Lesson Plan at ABCJLM includes a link to Letter of the Week ideas as well as Letter Posters. Two weeks ago, W was Letter of the Week. After printing off the Letter W Poster, I sat down with the kids and brainstormed words that ...
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Holding School with More Than One Kiddo
I received a very sweet email from an ABCJesusLovesMe user. I can't tell you how much I appreciate emails from you! Thank you so much for ABCJLM!! ... I discovered the site a few weeks ago, we are starting week 3 and love it! I sit with all three big kids at the table and do our Bible verse, story and character trait all together before we ...
Drawings
Bubs has never liked to draw. Up until a couple of days ago, if you asked him to draw something, he scribbled. I looked in the magazines that we receive and saw these great pictures that kids Bubs' age drew. I knew that the problem stemmed back to his fine motor skills but we had to turn the tide. Along with the Visual Perception Activities ...
Making Paper Snowflakes
We are continuing our Ricky the Raccoon story "Let is Snow!" from our current Ranger Rick Jr. magazine by doing the same activities that the animals did - Making Paper Snowflakes! The kids really enjoyed this activity and several were made to hang on our back door. Snowflake Learning So much learning occurred in this project. ...
Review: God, I Need To Talk to You
Click to read an update on the God, I Need to Talk to You About... series. Because of the 4 Year Curriculum's focus on character education, I was immediately drawn to the titles of these books. I was thankful when Concordia Publishing House allowed me to review a few of them. There are 16 God, I Need to Talk to You books by Dan Carr, covering ...
I Need Your Help, Please!
I have decided to deliver your request! So many of you have asked to purchase my curriculum in book form and my plan is to have this available in July. Just in time to begin the new school year. BUT...I need your help! Despite my best efforts, ABCJLM is filled with misspelled words, bad grammar, poorly written sentences, and dropped links! ...
FAQ: Curriculum for Toddlers
ABC Jesus Loves Me A precious Mom emailed me about using the ABCJLM curriculum with a toddler. Here was my response. Little Man is a toddler. He participates in "school time" during the Bible story, song time, memory verse and the other fun activities that are appropriate for his age. For example in the 3 Year Curriculum Week 1 - Little Man ...
FAQ: Beginning ABCJLM Mid-Year
One of the most frequently asked questions that I receive is the one about starting the ABCJLM curriculum in the middle of the year. I wanted to cover this topic as I know several people are looking for a preschool curriculum to begin in January. All four of the ABCJesusLovesMe Curricula are created to be flexible. Although they are designed to ...
Letter Progression Worksheets
One of the newest items to the ABCJLM website is the Letter Progression Worksheets. While working with Bubs on writing his lowercase letters, I found that we made great gains when I showed him the connection between similar letters. Instead of having to learn 26 letters, he learned a few groups and the task wasn't near as daunting. I have not ...
Updated Tracing Worksheets
I haven't been happy with the tracing worksheets on the ABCJesusLovesMe website. So, I finally had the to time update most of them. You will notice that the worksheets now come in four types and the lines are colored. Let me back up...Bubs works on his letters with his OT each week. After getting a strong handle on the uppercase letters, he ...