Letter of the Week

This week, we started Letter of the Week activities beginning with letter A. Basically, each week the kids will do at least three activities related to the letter of the week which are tracing the uppercase letter using Wet Dry Try! app, tracing the upper case letter on a worksheet, and do craft activity that matches with the letter of the week.

In alphabetical order, each week, we spend about 10-15 minutes on Monday-Wednesday to trace one uppercase letter a day using Wet Dry Try! app. The goal is to reach one star a day which can be accomplished by tracing the letters three times, wet-dry-try.  On Wednesday, the kids should be able to have three stars which they are very proud of. 

Using thin marker, carefully, the kids trace the uppercase letter each week. We try our best to do at least 1 row a day, but this week, some of the kids were very determined to finish all 5 rows in 15 minutes. The fact that they could stay on task for more than 5 minutes were amazed as well as made me proud of them. Every week, after finishing this uppercase letter tracing, they are rewarded with stickers which they can stick on the worksheets. Observing how the kids traced letter A this week, some of them have already had good pencil grip which really help them in tracing neatly using marker. Some others still need help either to hold the marker properly or simply to be back on task. We try our best to encourage all the kids to practice this writing skill, but we won't push them so hard which can demotivate them. The most important thing is the letter recognition. Being able to trace then write the uppercase letters are the bonuses :)

Beside the two activities mentioned above, each week, we also do craft activity that matches the letter of the week. This week we did alligator cut and paste and next week we will do letter B covered with buttons.

Other than the stickers, after completing all letter of the week activities, the kids will attach the letter of the week train on their uppercase letter chart as part of their rewards. We also have a designated space in our classroom to attach the letter that we have learned. This 'A' train will be the engine of our long alphabet train.