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Alphabet Beginning Sounds Poster ~ Free Printable

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November 3, 2011 by 13 Comments

The co-op that we participate in has a class for preschool based on the ABC’s. Each week we focus on a new letter of the alphabet, so I put together this poster with both the uppercase and lowercase letters along with a real picture of an object that began with that sound.

ABC Poster

Super simple, but something colorful and fun for us to review the letters and letter sounds that we’ve already learned. Click the image or download the Alphabet Beginning Sounds Poster from my Alphabet Resources page.

You can find more Early Learning Printables {all for FREE} on my website. Have fun!!

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Short and Long Vowel Picture Cards ~ Free Preschool Printables

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June 6, 2011 by 2 Comments

Short and long vowel picture cards

The Short and Long Vowel Picture Cards are designed to help you work with your child to identify the beginning short and long vowel sound in words. Each vowel in the sets includes three picture cards to go along with that beginning vowel sound.

Help your child match the picture cards to their beginning vowel sound. You can also use the picture cards to practice identifying objects with your child. The crisp white backgrounds on the Vowel Picture Cards, allow little ones to focus on the actual object that is being talked about.

The Vowel Picture Cards were designed to go along with the Consonant Picture Cards that I shared some time ago, so be sure to download those as well! Now you’ll have a full set of ABC beginning sound cards to use with your kids ~ and they are all free!

Here’s a little peek at the cards…

short vowel collage

Pictures included with the Short Vowel Picture Cards:

A – apple, alligator, astronaut

E – egg, elephant, envelope

I – inchworm, insect, igloo

O – ostrich, octopus, olives

U – umbrella, umpire, underwear

long vowel collage

Pictures included with the Long Vowel Picture Cards:

A – apron, acorn, ape

E – easel, eagle, earrings

I – ice, ice cream, ironing board

O – oatmeal, overalls, overcoat

U – utensils, uniform, unicycle

 

consonant card collage

You can download them and many other preschool alphabet printables on my website!

Have fun learning!

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A is for Astronaut Letter Craft

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April 7, 2011 by 1 Comment

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This uppercase A astronaut was too much fun to make! We did it this week along with our Astronaut Preschool Pack.

What You’ll Need:

  • white, pink {or skin toned} and black foam sheet
  • tinfoil
  • scissors
  • glue/tape {I love glue dots!}
  • black marker

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How to Make the ‘A’ for Astronaut:

  1. Cut an uppercase A from a piece of white foam sheet. We used a piece that was 4” x 5”.
  2. Using the excess white foam, I cut out arms/sleeves, a white helmet and a white ‘space pack’ for our astronaut.
  3. Using pink foam, cut out a face for your astronaut, just slightly smaller than your helmet.
  4. Cut space boots and gloves from the black craft foam.
  5. Cover the space pack with tinfoil.
  6. Glue the boots, arms and gloves onto the uppercase A.
  7. Glue the space pack onto the back of the A. We added some straps by rolling pieces of tinfoil and wrapping them around the A like backpack straps.
  8. Draw a face on your astronaut ~ don’t forget to add hair!
  9. Glue/tape your astronaut’s helmet and head onto the top of the letter A.

A few more astronaut links:

~ Astronaut Preschool Pack

~ Totally Tots A is for Astronaut

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Preschool Corner ~ Lowercase Letter Crafts u – z

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January 28, 2011 by 6 Comments

This week I’m sharing the last of the lowercase alphabet letter crafts that Cindy and I have been sharing over at Totally Tots. Click on the picture to visit the post about that craft, where you will find supply lists and directions for each of the crafts.

If you’ve missed any of the past crafts, you can find all of the uppercase letter crafts here on Totally Tots and the full set of lowercase letter crafts here on Totally Tots. 

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Stories & Books To Go Along

More Preschool Links:

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Preschool Corner ~ Lowercase Letter Crafts q – t

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January 7, 2011 by 2 Comments

We started out the week with a sick Kaleb and did manage to squeeze in some school time {and were really getting on a roll}…and are now in the midst of household chaos with lots of painting, scrubbing and house purging going on.

Instead of paper and pencil school, we spent time on field trips so that Daddy could get some things done without interruption ~ the library and the children’s museum being top on the list!

Here are a few more of the lowercase alphabet letter crafts that Cindy and I have been sharing over at Totally Tots. Click on the picture to visit the post about that craft. :)

 

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Depending on how next week goes, I’m REALLY hoping that I’ll be able to share another preschool pack with you!! I’m trying to wrap up some behind the scenes stuff before I post all about it too. Right now, focusing on our kids and keeping our sanity intact is top on my ‘to do’ list {grins}…but I do have some fun stuff in store!

Stories & Books to Go Along 

 

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Preschool Corner ~ Do a Dot Pages N-Z

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November 12, 2010 by 1 Comment

Great plans…and this week ended up being completely crazy. While we did do lots of learning, it wasn’t all all what I had planned for us to do.

We took a trip to Target {after yet another doctor’s visit} and ended up filling up all of our shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. We wrote letters to each of the children that we are sending shoeboxes too, printed of pictures to include in our boxes, and got them ready to drop off. {Note to self: Next year, make a special date and take each kiddo separately to shop for shoebox gifts. Four kids in Target shoving things in shoeboxes = pure craziness}.

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The do-a-dot markers came out in FULL force this week again, and I printed off more copies of our A-Z pages for Kaleb to work on {his request!}. Since I haven’t shared the second batch of the do-a-dot pages, I figured this would be a great time to do that. :) Here are a few sample pages for the letters N-Z do-a-dot sheets. You can also download the letters A-M do-a-dot set here.

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Tools We Use

I’ve put together a ‘preschool store’ of sorts through Amazon that shows many of the tools and toys we use during our preschool time ~ and some of our favorite things.

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