One of the supplemental materials that I suggest making and using with the 3 and 4 Year Curricula are the Tactile Letters and Numbers. The tactile letters and numbers (also called sandpaper or textured) are key to the 3 Year Curriculum. Because many 3-year-olds do not have the fine motor skills for handwriting activities, I emphasize ...
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16+ Learning Activities with Easter Eggs
They sell them for pennies. And if you attend just one Easter Egg hunt you come home with 25+ of them. Plastic Easter eggs. A waste or fabulous teaching tools? Easter eggs can bring fun to almost any learning objective any time of the year. Here are some ideas to help get you started. Math - Basic hide and seek. Then have the child ...
New Idea for the Apple Tree Posters
I love hearing from you! People just like you send me suggestions, notify me of errors or broken links, or simply say "Hello!". It is through these emails that I can make the ABCJesusLovesMe Preschool Curriculum better! Teresa emailed me with an idea on improving the Apple Tree Posters used in 2 Year Curriculum. I am so excited to ...
Making Learning Part of the Day
Pin It Have you check out the ABCJLM Facebook Group lately? If not, you are missing out on a lot of wisdom! "Tina" shared some fabulous ways to incorporate the objectives of the ABCJLM Curriculum into a day with her grandson. I wanted to share her ideas because the suggestions are so simple yet so profound. Below are some of her main points. I ...
Fishing Game
My kids have enjoyed going "fishing" in our living room. Catching each fish becomes a educational game. What's great about this activity is that they don't even realize that they are learning!!! This game is easy to make and can be created as simple or as detailed as you want. To Make: Fishing Pole: A dowel rod, string, and ...
How To Picture Walk Through a Book
source Even before their precious bundle of joy is born, parents are told the importance of reading to their child. Most professionals agree that children should be read to at least 15 minutes a day. But is there a certain way to read to a child? One academic term that you will hear floating around is "Picture Walk." But what is ...
Teaching Spatial Concepts
After doing our Five Speckled Frogs song and activity, I left the frogs and log on the easel. One morning, I watched Sweet Pea play with the frogs as I was getting ready to start school. Watching her gave me the idea to use the frogs and log to work on spatial concepts. (Spatial concepts are taught in the 3-5 Year Curricula.) Upon calling out a ...
Writting 101
Little Man wants to write his name so badly. "Mommy, Mommy please let me write my name." He does a few scribblings and smiles as though he just signed the Declaration of Independence. Now he wants more. Yesterday during school time, I gave it a whirl. Starting with the first letter of his name we got down to business. Immediately success. ...
Letter Posters & Letter Art
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 ...
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 ...