Alphabet Notebook

Big sis is really interested in the alphabet right now. I'm trying to avoid the temptation to do a "letter of the week" for multiple reasons, so here is what we are trying instead...

I made big sis an alphabet notebook. I took 26 sheets of computer paper and put an upper and lower case letter in the top left corner. Then I placed them in sheet protectors and placed them in a 3-ring notebook. There are two ways we will use this notebook:

1. If we make crafts and focus on a particular theme, we'll place a picture/sticker or something to represent that theme on the appropriate letter page. For example, this week we did some snow projects so we could put a snowflake or snowman on the s page. As big sis sticks/glues it on, we talk about the letter and what sound it makes in that particular word. As we get more pictures on the page, we'll likely review the starting sound of each word and compare. We'll see!

2. This is how we started the notebook - I gave big sis a few magazines (Pottery Barn Kids, MOPS Mom magazine, and Scholastic's Parent and Child) and had her search for things she liked. We tore out the page and she used her scissors to cut out the object. We talked about what letter and sound the words started with, found the letter page, and pasted it on. This was a great activity as she loved getting to practice with her scissors and look at the pictures!Don't know that this will do anything to help with letter/sound recognition, but we're having fun with it so it works for me!