Letter Recognition

Our names in watercolor

A child’s name is very special and this simple watercolor activity turned out to be a fun and colorful way for our students to focus on the letters in their name.

Matching upper and lowercase letters on the light table

A fun way to review the alphabet is by matching upper and lowercase letters on the light table.

Building block drawing game in preschool

A fun way to get preschoolers thinking and talking about letters and numbers while having fun with a little drawing and block play too!

Stirring up alphabet sensory soup

As a review of the letters and their sounds, the children stirred up some alphabet soup.

Artwork A collages

Exploring the letter A through a little recycled artwork fun…

DIY colored glue letters, numbers, and shapes for the light table

Make your own letters and numbers for the light table with colored glue and cookie cutters!

A year long study of the alphabet

Exploring priorities as I reflect on my preschool year and the letter of the week.

Upper and lower case letters in the salt tray

Working on our upper and lower case letter writing in the salt tray…

Exploring newspaper

The children found a variety of newspaper activities to explore in our preschool classroom today…

Inchworm gluing and painting activity in pre-kindergarten

Making paper inchworms from the letter “i” then hiding them in the grass so the birds wont be able to find them!

Exploring capital and lowercase letters with my preschoolers

Exploring upper and lower case letters with my preschoolers…

Aluminum foil alphabet game in preschool

After doing a little foil texture painting, tearing, and gluing – we played a little foil alphabet ball game.

The children were exploring the letter “R” by gluing rice on the red letter… By gluing on the rice, the children are able to draw the connection of the sound of the letter “R” to something familiar, something they will remember, and something they can feel… The “R” shape was precut for the children so [...]

Writing the letter of the week

Each week, when a new letter is introduced, the teacher invites each child to come up and try to print the letter on the dry erase board. The teacher begins by printing a capital and lower case letter on the board first – she identifies each letter as she is writing them for the children [...]

P is for pink polk-a-dots in preschool

Each week, the teachers at our school continue to focus on a letter of the week. This isn’t the only time that the children will explore a given letter but it is an opportunity to give a letter some special attention. This week the focus was on the letter P! I noticed that focusing on [...]

O is for Octopus in preschool

A drawback to being an administrator in a preschool program is that often times I have to actually “administrate” and when I do, it pulls me away from the classroom. So when this happens, I often only get to see what the children made after they are finished rather than while they are in the process. I [...]

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