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 ...
Learning
Learning to Write
My closest friends can tell from reading my blogs when I am really excited about something. This is a time! For some time, I have been battling in my mind how to handle letter and number writing in the curriculum. I posted about changes to the 4 Year Curriculum here. I feel like I finally have the learning, teaching, or order the ...
Number Rhyme
I absolutely love the Number Rhymes on the ABCJLM website. This is one of the many suggestions available on the website to help you teach numbers and letters to your child or students.As Bubs writes his numbers, we say the sayings to help him correctly form each number. The number "five" is one that can be written two different ways - top first or ...
Learning to Write Your Letters – Wipe Clean
Sweet Pea received the Wipe Clean: Learn to Write Your Letters : 26 Wipe-Clean Pages of Letter-Writing Fun (Wipe Clean) for her birthday. She begs to work on her letters in this book. The book comes with a dry erase pen and I love how the book "carries" the pen along. Every letter has a line to practice writing the letter and then different words ...
Color By Number
I saw this great idea at the blog "Learning 4 Fun!" and had to pass it along...Turn any coloring page into a color-by-number by just writing numbers onto the picture and adding a color code. You can see an example of a cow that this creative Mom did here. So simple yet so fun!This is a new blog but it has several other great ideas to check out! ...
Rolling Pin Learning
I found this activity that looks like fun for your older preschool child. Rolling Pin LearningIn the video, the child is listening for a sightword. Various sightwords are written on 3x5" cards which are folded over. Once the child recognizes the sightword, he "rolls" over it. This activity would work great to learn letters, numbers, colors, etc ...
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 ABC Jesus Loves Me 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 ...
Weekly Lesson Plan Overview
You have reviewed the curriculum and know you want to do something. But you may be wondering, "Where do I start?" Here are ideas to help you incorporate the curriculum into your week. Specific ideas are given for each day that the curriculum is covered. Lesson plan steps- 1. Introduce (Mondays) - This is the ______.2. Recognize (Wednesdays) - ...
Before You Start…
I received a phone call from a sweet friend. She was feeling the pressure to do a lot of "school" with her 4 1/2 year old. But, every time that she tries to sit down with her son, he stalls and complains about it. Instead of being a time of learning and fun, it becomes a long-drawn-out war. She believes that her son has the ability to read but he ...