Next comes polite letter p
As pretty and proud as you please.
A long line that drops
Down below, and then pop
A circle beside it—whopee!
Small q is quiet and
quick.
It’s like p, but
with a trick.
It’s the other way ‘round
And the line that goes down
Ends with a quaint, quirky kick.
Now we’ve reached rock’ n’ roll r
And everyone can be a star!
Make a short line, then look—
At the top a small hook,
And your rip, roaring r
will go far!
Small s is swirley
and steep.
Arch up to the middle and sweep
Down to the end
With another round bend
For swinging and singing so sweet!
Next we’ll try t:
don’t delay!
Start high up but not all the way.
Then down you drop,
Put a small line across,
For terrific, tip-top days!
ACTIVITIES
Letter Collage - Give children old magazines,
catalogs, and newspapers. Have
them cut out letters and glue them on a sheet of construction paper. Can they name the letters that they cut
out?
*Can they cut out all the letters in their name?
*Can they find all the letters from A-Z?
Stencils – Give children letter stencils to
trace around on construction paper.
Children can cut out the letters after they’ve traced around them.
Hint!
They can also make a letter necklace by punching holes in the letters
they’ve cut out and stringing them on yarn.
Letter Pasta – Purchase
pasta/macaroni in the shape of alphabet letters. Separate the pasta into four plastic bags. Add a tablespoon of rubbing alcohol and
a large squirt of food coloring to each bag. Shake. Dry on
wax paper. Mix the colors together
to get a rainbow of letters.
Children can “find” letters with a magnifying glass. Or, give them tweezers to pick out
letters they know.
Bobbing Letters – Write
letters on ping pong balls with a permanent marker. Place in a water table or tub and let children scoop them
out with a fish net.
Hidden Letters – Hide
magnetic letters in a sand table or in a sandbox. Can children name the letters that they find? Can they make the sound of the letter?