Our "A" Day!

My four year old and I had our very first letter day!  We talked about the sound that "A" makes, we hunted for the letter "A" at home and at the store, we found things that began with the letter "A", we made "A" crafts and we wrote a whole bunch of "As"!

The Sound

Use "A" as in "apple".  This is the short "A" sound - the long "A" will come later as the kids start to read.

Writing It

As I prepped the craft, I encouraged my daughter to write a bunch of "A"s - as many as she could squeeze in.  I made up a quick worksheet on PowerPoint  - link to worksheet.

Crafting It

Since "apple" begins with "A" and they are in season right now - we painted an apple tree and added pom-poms as the apples.  I first outlined the apple tree in black marker so that it would give my daughter a guide for how to paint the tree and so the black lines would show through at the end.  My daughter got creative and used a large purple pom-pom to look like a hole in the tree ("where animal lives!").  We also used this craft to talk about all the different colors of apples (red, pink, green, yellow).

Fun and Games

• We had two games - the first was to take a letter "A" that I had cut out of paper and glued onto a white back and find "A"s wherever we went.  Whenever she found an "A" - she added a sticker to the paper until she filled up the entire paper!
• The second game was to find things that start with the letter "A".  For this, she had a bingo sheet that I made up in PowerPoint - link to sheet.  As we went about our day, we found all the things on the sheet - some of them were stuffed animals we had around the house, some of them we found at the grocery, and some we found on our walk! 

Enjoy!