Instead of hammering the alphabet into a child’s head, preschool lessons always focus on finding creative ways to teach core concepts without bordering on being drab. An alphabet a week is a popular way of teaching a single letter of the alphabet in different ways so that the sounds and shapes of that letter are easier for the child to grasp. It is also deemed by experts as an appropriate pace for a preschool lesson to go at; not too slow and not too fast.

The Letter B

For instance, the week the teachers focus on the letter B, they can get the children to paint with balloons because balloons begin with the letter B. Then they can ask Belinda or Bob to be starts of the week since their name begin with B. For a homework project, each child can bring something (or a picture of something if you want it to be two dimensional) that starts with B. Once kids see the familiar bags, bubbles, beans ad blankets, the sound of the letter B will be easy to grasp.

On another day of the week, the kids can go bumper bowling as a field trip explaining how both words in the activity begin with B. for a kitchen experiment, they can bake brownies or cut shapes from brown bread. They can have a writing preschool lesson by practicing to write the letter B in lower and upper case and color things that begin with B so as to reinforce the concepts taught early on. Teachers can read books about babies, bugs and butterflies and they can have bananas and berry juice for snack.

By the end of the week, teachers can roughly evaluate how well the concept has been absorbed by having a B quiz. They can place various objects on a tray and ask the kids to point out one by one only the things that begin with B. They can weave in a preschool lesson about colors by asking kids to color a picture using only brown, blue and black.

Of course each child will learn at his or her own pace and it would be unrealistic to expect them all to be writing and reading B words in just a week, but hopefully with thee simple preschool lessons they will be on their way to learning about the alphabet, one letter at a time.