Letter of the Week – Letter A
Day 1
Put letter A and a (cursive and manuscript) on 12 circle stickers. Hide them in a room. Once she finds them, she puts them on letter A outline. (I used printed ones for this, but they were too big. By the letter D, I just made small handwritten letters on card stock to put the stickers on). (See picture above.)
Letter A book (I only chose three of the pages I thought she would like most.)
Cut up red pieces of construction paper and glue onto small plate for apple (see picture above)
Olive and the Rhyme Rescue Crew Video
Day 2
Paint cardboard apple and alligator plate (see picture above…I did not get a picture of the alligator.) She ended up painting an apple on some paper, as well as painting some rocks too. The alligator was basically a large plate painted green, then folded in half.
At some point she wanted to write the letter A, so she did. (See picture above.)
Eat applesauce
Day 3
Find matching googly eyes for alligator, put A stickers in his mouth
Made an Amaranth, banana, and peanut butter milkshake (1 cup milk, 1 banana, 1 tsp of peanut butter, 1 tsp of honey, 2 tbsp of cooked amaranth, ½ tsp cinnamon)
Starfall Letter A computer activity
Day 4
Field Trip: Apple Orchard
Day 5
Gather up any toys (animals are especially great for this.) And display them somewhere, museum like. (I liked this, but it ended up meaning we had a bunch of toys lying around. By the letter D, I had learned to turn the items into dinner decorations on the table. That way they were contained. But, also provided conversation at the table.)
A Dinner
Appetizer: Antipasto…she had a lot of fun decorating the plate. We included black olives, cherry tomatoes, marinated artichokes, cheese, dried beef and pickles.
Dinner: apple and lettuce salad, apple burgers (turkey burgers with grated apples in the meat), asparagus
Dessert: Apple Slump
Here it is before cooking. Basically sliced apples, butter, cinnamon and sugar with some biscuit dough on top. Cook it in a dutch oven for about 20 min. Delicious! Here’s the actual recipe.
(Other food options: avocado, apple pie, artichokes, almonds, angel food cake, angel hair pasta, acorn squash, applesauce, anchovies, andes mints)
Letter B Post
All Letter of the Week Posts
More ideas at my Alphabet Pinterest Board
To see more themes and what my three year old learned this year, click here.