There are some great games out there for helping preschoolers learn the alphabet and gain some early literacy skills. Here are some that I thought looked especially fun. Silver Bells Memory Game by I Can Teach My Child I love the idea of playing memory with letters. I like how the kids can get excited…
The last week of story time we did two letters: Y and Z. Of course I wanted to do a literacy game that had to do with the zoo and letters. So the kids had to figure out what animals would go to certain areas of the zoo (and of course the “Y” and “Z”…
Last week I did the letter “X” at story time. Years ago when I first started doing alphabet letters for story time I thought this would be one of the hardest letters to do. But when I decided I could do anything that had a letter “x” in it, I realized that this was one…
I love, LOVE the PBS Kids app. There are multiple games. And it is free. The one that I had the kiddos play in story time this last week was the playtime game. Basically for this app the kids have to sort the different toys into different colored bins. I kept asking “where” do the…
Last week was “W” week for the A to Z Story Time. This week happens to have quite a lot of fun books, so it was hard to choose. I also wanted to talk about how to “write” for the literacy game. So the chant had them talking about how to “write” and that they…
This week at story time I talked about the letters “U” and “V”. And of course I did a literacy game. (I do tend to love them…) The whole idea to this literacy game was that letters have specific spacing up and down (meaning some letters stay in the middle, some have bits that go…
For story time last week we talked about the letter “T”. Of course I wanted to do a literacy game that you can find here. Basically it was a game inspired by my coworker who mentioned that sometimes kids have a hard time distinguishing different letters when they are in different fonts. But the kids…
For the “S” story time this past week I wanted to do a literacy game (that you can get here) that showed that the kids can “read” even if they can’t actually “read” letters and words. Because symbols are a good way to “read” as well. So we did a little chant to show that…
Last week we did two letters at A to Z Story Time. And of course I had to do a literacy game which you can find online here. In this one we sang a song to the tune of “Are You Sleeping?” And then the kids had to figure out where to start reading (although…
I went to PLA just a bit ago…and I had to leave my little story time kiddos for a round of story time. However, one of my wonderful coworkers was able to jump in and take care of everything for me. (Whew! I love that I am so supported in my job!) Anyway, I wanted…