LETTER REVIEW

Today, after our daily review we played Starbucks dramatic play.  We learned to role play, the sound Ss makes, to write as we used our order pads to take coffee orders, and to count as we counted back Starbucks, bucks.  Lots of hidden learning fun!

 

Serving her public.  LOL.  The dog was rather confused about the empty glass she was served.  I suppose dogs don't understand imaginary coffee.  

This prop box is extremely easy and cheap to put together.  Your local Starbucks well be happy to donate cups, stickers, and bags if you explain you are a teacher.   You can find the hats and smocks at your local Wal-mart, Hobby Lobby, or Michael's.  If you were really ambitious you could dye the hats and smocks green, I've always been afraid my other clothes would come out of the wash green if I tried this so...  I found two coffee pots at local garage sales, and just kept my empty coffee cans and creamer containers.  I cut off the Starbucks logo from a cup and photo copied, glued these to green construction paper I had cut into fourths then laminated.  Staple two together with white paper cut to fit between and you have Starbucks order pads for the kids, adding writing learning to the prop box.   I shrank the Starbucks logo and printed up Starbucks bucks with the Starbucks logo in the center.  Print out on green paper, laminate for endurance and the kids can count out the money and change adding math learning to the prop box. 

After an hour of Starbucks fun, we searched through seashell pasta for the letters of the alphabet.   

 You could use any letters for this tactile tub and mix it up for more learning fun.  For this one I put in letters from a letter foam puzzle I found at the dollar store.  Once a letter was found we identified which letter it was and what sound that letter made then we found its spot in the puzzle.  

You could add lowercase letters and have the children match up the uppercase with the lowercase.

We found an H, identified its sound, then,

put it where it belong in the alphabet.  

Lots of sneaky, fun learning going on at Picasso Preschool today!

For one of our writing activities today we glued shells onto S's.

Children outlined an S with glue, then they

put shells on their S.