Let's Learn Letters: alphabet and science from A to Z


Description
Let's Learn Letters: 26 complete lessons with multiple activities that can be explored daily or customized to integrate into a week’s curriculum. Each lesson is developmentally appropriate for children ages three to six years. 422 pages of creative projects combine math, language, art, science, and gross or fine motor skills.
26 complete lessons exploring the alphabet from A to Z.
Color and cut out each letter and decorate with pictures or collage materials.
Make each letter using craft sticks and pipe cleaners.
Explore shapes including arrows, circles, diamonds, ellipses, hearts, kites, octagons, quatrefoils, rectangles, squares, and triangles.
300 printable templates of coloring pages, letter tracing, and crafts.
Develop fine motor skills with finger play songs, letter tracing, cutting, painting, paper tearing, kneading, beading, picking up small objects, sewing, and coloring.
Song lyrics for the traditional and counting songs.
Movement ideas for the music and activity songs that will get you marching and dancing.
Learn about early math concepts including: counting, finger play songs, sizing, dot-to-dot 1-20, geoboards, geometrical shapes, number to quantity matching, one to one correspondence, same and different, sets of objects, more, less, and equal, measuring, pairs, symmetry, tangrams, and Venn diagrams.
Create, explore and discuss science: air, bubbles, crystals, density, static electricity, elasticity, float or sink, gak, gravity, heat, liquid to solid, cooking, kites and wind, light and shadow, magnetic, Newton’s Law, ooblek, planets, nature rubbing art, rocks and minerals, sun and stars, terrarium, universe, velocity, viscosity, weather, x-rays, and yo-yos.
Game and movement ideas include: pretending to be an astronaut, balancing a beanbag, copy cat, duck waddling, egg and spoon, freeze dance, friendship circle, stop and go, action songs, jumping, playing ball, listen and move, opposites, hot potato, relaxation, red light green light, tumble time, acting out the ugly duckling story, going on vacation, what’s the time Mr. Fox, yoga and body letters.
Art and craft ideas include: straw art, color mixing, coloring alphabet pages, fingerprint flowers, flower potpourri, heart hand, hand printing, ice painting, jack o’ lantern, kaleidoscope, kite mobile, sun printing, mask decorating, sewing a purse, quilt design, night and day picture, sun plate, symmetrical art,fingerprint tree, universe spiral, under and over, ground picture, wheel art, weather wheel, fox mask, skeleton, yarn printing, coffee filter flower and so much more. The ideas are endless!
Create, Explore, and Discuss
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