Shape turkeys

With Thanksgiving just around the corner we have been talking about Turkeys and the letter T.  To review shapes we made "Shape Turkeys".  Here are some I hung outside our room in the hall.  The students chose to make a turkey made out of either circles, triangles or rectangles which I cut out before hand.  I had them draw legs and add eyes, a beak and a heart for the wattle. I think they came out great!  This was a great idea I found off of my favorite site "Pinterest!"

Chicka Chick Boom Boom...

"Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Will There be Enough Room... For Letter ___?"

Each week we say this chant when we talk about our letter of the week.  I made colorful "coconuts" with the capital and lower case letter on it using the Century Gothic font in Word.  When we are done learning the letter at the end of the week, we all say "Bye Letter __" and then add the coconut to the tree.  It is a great visual to use for review also.

Using our Journals

Good afternoon... The week is flying by, Firday is finally here!
Each week we learn a letter and on Friday during our "Letter time" we sing our song from the AlphaFriends and use our "journals".  I have the Letter song typed up and everytime the focus letter is used in the song I put it in bold.  The students sit on the rug and have their journals with them.  I pass out colored pencils and tell them to circle the Letter everytime they see it.  When they are done they need to practice the letter on the bottom of the page.  We preset this by doing it as a whole class usually the day before on the song that I write on chart paper and laminate.
Here are some examples of the journals

Here is the song on chart paper.  For this I have each student take a turn to come up and circle the letter.  As the year moves on I have the students trace over the letter.



Sometimes it looked like Spilt Milk

We are learning about our Five Senses!  We read the story It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw.  We got our hands messy and made our own clouds!  I made a mixture of equal parts shaving cream and glue and the kiddos used their hands to make their own clouds. We talked about how it felt.  We also talked about how they all looked different and how we use our eyes to see.  After they were done I had them fill in the sentence for thir cloud, " Sometimes it looked like ______ said _____". After I made a bulletin board with our clouds.  They are so neat, they dry puffy.

S is for Snake

We learn a new letter each week.  So far we have learned the letters A, F, L and P.  This week we are learning about the letter S.  Each week we have a craft to go along with that letter.  here is the Snake.  I also have them fill in the letter for the sentence, "___ is for ___nake".

The teacher samples for the rest of the letters are next.  I had already sent them home before taking pictures. I used the sentences on some and others were just crafts.

A is for Alligator and acorn.

F is for fire truck, perfect for fire safety.

L is for Leaves

P is for Pizza

I will post other pictures of letters as we learn them :)