Preschool at home

2 weeks ago I decided to begin working on the letters of the alphabet with my 2 year old.  He loves doing what he calls "homework" every day.  We spend 1 week at a time on each letter doing at least 2 actvities a day with the letter and he has easily picked up A & B.  He can show you those 2 letters anywhere(in upper case he still struggles in lower case) and can tell you several things those letters start with.  I was amazed at how quickly he picked these up so on we go to letter C.  Just a few activities we have done with our letters to date.

Letter A~ We made a apple mobile out of a paper towel holder. Tying a string to individual apples hanging down all with the letter A displayed.  We also made an Ant hill with his finger prints.  We made a Apple tree using his thumb prints dipped in paint to make the apples.  And for the week we ate apples and enjoyed the song "the Ants Go Marching One By One".  A was a very easy letter for him to learn.

Letter B~ We started with bumble Bees.  We made a Bumble Bee craft by tracing his footprint with yellow construction paper, we then added black stripes and beaded eyes then yellow pipe cleaners for the wings.  Next we made a box which we decorated and put the letter B on the the lid.  Inside we placed items that startewd with the letter B. We had a banana, ball, bumble bee, butterfly, bear, balloon, and big bird craft we made.  There are so many ideas online to help you along the way with your planning.

These are just a few ideas we have done and I will try to post some pics of a few of these things as well.