Alphabet Party!

The alphabet is done,
So we had a lot of fun.
Hip hip hooray-
Today was party day.

Today our class had an alphabet party. This means that we did literacy activities throughout the day. In the morning we rotated through several centers: reading alphabet books,
making alphabet puzzles
(now it's done. This one is my favorite puzzle),
playing A, B, Seas, and an unpictured activity where they used tweezers to grab letters from a bucket to fill in the blanks on cards (A__C, gh__, __WX...)

Then at snack time the children were told they HAD to play with their food before eating it. We had alphabet crackers. We sorted, tried to find vowels/letters in our names/etc. We did some alphabet dancing (The ABC Disco by Jack Hartmann is the class' current favorite).

We read several alphabet books, sang and signed the alphabet to the tune of Who Let the Dogs Out? (Who Let the Aa out?), marched around the room chanting the alphabet, wrote the alphabet, did a fun alphabet dot-to-dot and matching page...and then it was time for PE.

This afternoon we added the alphabet song to our poetry books and played more alphabet games. Most children thought it was pretty hilarious when I threw some cards in the air (and then they had to put them in order).

Here are some children playing alphabet cover - simple but fun:
Matching uppercase and lowercase letters (baseball mitts and balls)
Next week we start letter of the week!


And a few pictures from earlier this week: the art center was rather busy.
Here are some binoculars and night visions.
And a cool-looking turtle.
Apple prints with buddies.