The main focus of our year has been to really learn the alphabet and to recognize letters even if they are out of sequence and be able to tell if it is a capital or lowercase letter. After some exploring and considering how our preschooler would learn best, we agreed that a letter of the week focus would be the best approach. The entire theme of our year is from one of our favorite books:
If you do not already have this book as part of your collection then I highly suggest you go out and purchase a copy. We read it almost every day thanks to our preschool theme and because it has a really fun, playful approach to the alphabet. Even our younger toddler loves reading it day after day. We decided to create our own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree out of construction paper in our homeschool area that we add our letters to each week after we feel we have mastered them. This is what our own personal tree looks like currently and as you can see it is at toddler level for easy access of our little preschooler.
Each week we focus one letter of the alphabet, we create a craft out of each letter both uppercase and lowercase, we tie in a specific them to correspond with that specific letter (depending on the theme of the letter we pick, our week might run over into an additional week to cover everything), and we find activities to focus on that letter/theme. A good majority of my posts for the next couple months will contain in depth breakdowns of our letter of the week lesson plans and themes, if you are interested in seeing how we create those. These posts will also include craft ideas we choose to go with for that week, any small field trips we plan, bible lessons that fit into our theme, and what books really tie the week all together. So, be on the look out for those in the very near future.
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