Book Recommendation

I got a book from one of the Preschool teachers at work that she wrote based upon the methods she used in her classroom. Emma and I have been going through the book at home.

Here is the book: Ready, Set, Read by Janet Chambers

Janet uses "feely letters" to introduce the letter to the students. Here are our letters. A for apple, big blue B, and curvy caterpillar C. (Excuse the messy fridge).


Janet stresses play as being a big part of learning, so she give plenty of activities to make learning the letters and their letter sounds fun. We started learning about the letter C today, so we made a cave out of two chairs and a sheet. I placed a bunch of objects beginning with the letter c inside of the cave (carrot, crayon, car, corn, comb) and Emma would have to crawl into the cave, pull out and object, and tell me what it was. She loved it.


We also made the egg carton caterpillars, which were messy but fun.


This is Emma's bean picture from the letter B from last week. She did really well on this!

Janet has some awesome ideas to make learning fun. For the letter A, we made an ambulance (baby doll stroller) and Emma "drove" the ambulance while making the a sound to take her sick animals to the hospital. Of course, she had a blast!

We also try to have a snack that goes along with the letter that we are learning for the week, apples for a, banana pudding for b, cereal for c.

We sing songs, read books, and watch movies that all have to do with the letter of the week.

Emma has been enjoying it so much that the first thing she says every morning is "What letter are we going to do today, Mommy?" That lets me know that all of the mess is worth it!