Toddler Lesson Plans: Learning ABCs is a collection of fun activities that will help you teach ABCs to your toddler Why this book? HAVE A GUIDE - Forget scrolling through social media or blogs for ideas; now your plan for teaching ABCs is laid out for you. BE CONSISTENT - With a guide to keep you on track, you won't have to worry about neglecting any of those pesky not so popular letters. GIVE YOUR CHILD A HEAD START - Your child will have a head start on learning with you teaching ABCs. What is in the book? 26 Week Guide - a week dedicated to each letter Each week has 5 activities Each activity has a materials list and detailed directions Each week also has an alternate activity The book has 53 handouts that correlate with speicific ABC activities Can a busy mom follow this lesson plan? Sure! Each activity takes about 10 minutes. A few minutes will be needed for you to round up the supplies (and your toddler!) If certain days are busy for you, schedule around them and only plan on teaching abcs on 5 days in the week that work for you. Of course, there are days where things feel too hectic but just hang in there! We may feel too busy to teach ABCs but our toddlers aren't too busy to learn! ** BLACK/WHITE Version of Book - Cover is full color but interior pages are black/white only** If you'd like the full color version, click the format options above and then click small triangle to the left of the word 'paperback.'

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Home Education consists of six lectures by Charlotte Mason about the raising and educating of young children (up to the age of nine), for parents and teachers. She encourages us to spend a lot of time outdoors, immersed in nature, handling natural objects, and collecting experiences on which to base the rest of their education. She discusses the use of training in good habits such as attention, thinking, imagining, remembering, performing tasks with perfect execution, obedience, and truthfulness, to replace undesirable tendencies in children (and the adults that they grow into). She details how lessons in various school subjects can be done using her approach. She concludes with remarks about the Will, the Conscience, and the Divine Life in the Child. Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling families, is gentle and flexible, especially with younger children, and includes first-hand exposure to great and noble ideas through books in each school subject, conveying wonder and arousing curiosity, and through reflection upon great art, music, and poetry; nature observation as the primary means of early science teaching; use of manipulatives and real-life application to understand mathematical concepts and learning to reason, rather than rote memorization and working endless sums; and an emphasis on character and on cultivating and maintaining good personal habits. Schooling is teacher-directed, not child-led, but school time should be short enough to allow students free time to play and to pursue their own worthy interests such as handicrafts. Traditional Charlotte Mason schooling is firmly based on Christianity, although the method is also used successfully by secular families and families of other religions.

We all want our toddlers to learn and have fun - but what happens when a hectic life gets in the way? You no longer have to waste time searching for age-appropriate activities. Now you can enjoy the ultimate collection of kid-tested fun that can be ready in minutes! Autumn McKay, author of The Ultimate Kindergarten Prep Guide, is a mother of 3 preschoolers and understands the pressure to create fun activities that don't take a lot of time to prepare. As a former schoolteacher, she has created The Ultimate Toddler Activity Guide with low-prep activities that are proven to spark a child's interest and curiosity. Save time by not needing to scroll through social media looking for ideas. Learning through play makes learning fun so your little ones look forward to learning even more. You have a bright child whose brain is like a sponge, so just a short, engaging activity can help give them an extra headstart. WHAT IS IN THE BOOK? ? This book includes 200 activities! ? There are 19 themes. ? Each activity has a materials list and detailed directions. ? There are 114 low prep activities--that means the prep time is only 1 or 2 minutes! ? The book has 49 handouts that correlate with specific themes. ? The book is 280 pages of fun for you and your toddler to enjoy together! CAN A BUSY MOM USE THIS BOOK? ? Sure! These activities are made for busy moms! A few minutes will be needed for you to round up the supplies (and your toddler!) ? Each activity takes about 10-15 minutes. ? If certain days are busy for you, schedule around them and only plan on doing the activities on days that work best for you and your little one. THEMES:?Body Parts?Community Helpers?Emotions?Farm?Fine Motor?Gross Motor?Holidays (New Years, Martin Luther King Jr., Valentine's, Presidents' Day, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Earth Day, 4th of July, Columbus Day, Halloween, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas)?Insects and Bugs?Left and Right?Ocean?Seasons?Senses?Shapes?Space?Spanish?Spelling Name?Transportation?Weather?Zoo Animals

"Letter-a-week" may be a ubiquitous approach to teaching alphabet knowledge, but that doesn't mean it's an effective one. In No More Teaching a Letter a Week, early literacy researcher Dr. William Teale helps us understand that alphabet knowledge is more than letter recognition, and identifies research-based principles of effective alphabet instruction, which constitutes the foundation for phonics teaching and learning. Literacy coach Rebecca McKay shows us how to bring those principles to life through purposeful practices that invite children to create an identity through print. Children can and should do more than glue beans into the shape of a "B"; they need to learn how letters create words that carry meaning, so that they can, and do, use print to expand their understanding of the world and themselves.

While on vacation in Alphabet City, Little e and the other lowercase letters repair an old fire truck and come to the rescue when a fire engulfs the letter-making factory.

Letter of the Week is packed with developmentally appropriate art, language, science, music, movement, and literacy experiences designed to help children make connections with letters. It includes 26 colorful and alphabetically organized units that are designed to let children explore and experience the letters of the alphabet as they increase their phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge. It features 160 pages and includes reproducible activities.

Offering 52 weeks of lessons and materials on a bonus CD-ROM, this versatile program is built to be fun and effective at teaching children God's Word. Each lesson includes a story, discussion, a craft activity, Bible verse, and a prayer.

In this adaptation of the traditional nursery rhyme, a woman swallows the alphabet.

A told B, and B told C, I'll meet you at the top of the coconut tree In this lively alphabet rhyme, all the letters of the alphabet race each other up the coconut tree. Will there be enough room? Oh, no -- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! The well-known authors of Barn Dance and Knots on a Counting Rope have created a rhythmic alphabet chant that rolls along on waves of fun. Lois Elhert's rainbow of bright, bold, and cheerful colors makes the merry parade of letters unforgettable.