Beginning Sounds

I have never been a big fan of worksheets(they bore me) so I always tried to come up with substitutes that would still cover the standards, involve the kids actively, and allow me to have fun too! Of course, I usually made it harder on myself-but we had a good time. I took the worksheet pictures, cut them apart, handed them to the kids, and we went through the process of deciding which alphabet letter they started with-then we would put them under the appropriate letter on the hall wall. We did a few at a time, so it was a long process.

We also made a name graph while working with our names-we sorted our names by beginning sounds and made a word wall chart/graph to hang in the hall.

Names Activities

Names are a very important way to teach the alphabet for kinders-they are real connections they can make instead of letters that have no meaning for them. When I taught Kindergarten I always did LOTS of names activities. I will upload pictures of the games/lessons that we did with our names as I find them.

We would count the letters in our name(I gave them a card with their name on it) and then we would sort them according to the number of letters in each name.

We also made a graph for the letters in our names.