1. Draw a letter A to show your child.\u00c2\u00a0 Introduce the idea that an A makes different sounds when it is in\u00c2\u00a0a word.\u00c2\u00a0 One sound is the name of the letter — see if your child can come up with any examples of words that start with that sound, such as apron, acorn, April, ace, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Next ask if they know another sound an A can make.\u00c2\u00a0 Give examples of the words that start with the short a sound, such as apple, alligator, ambulence, etc.<\/p>\n
2. Read Imogene’s Antlers<\/a><\/p>\n 3. Prepare an “A” bag with items from around the house.\u00c2\u00a0 Consider apples, alligator, ambulence, aprone, airplane, ant, acorn, etc<\/p>\n 4. Create an “A” collage — search through magazines for words that start with the letter “A” and glue them down.<\/p>\n 5. Make apple print A’s.\u00c2\u00a0 Provide a pattern cut into the shape of an A (taping it to waxed paper will help with clean up).\u00c2\u00a0 Prepare a small amount of yellow, green and red paint in shallow paper plates.\u00c2\u00a0 Using a plastic knife, help yourchild cut an apple into thick slices, horizontally, across the core.\u00c2\u00a0 Show him how to dip an apple slice into the paint and make a print on the paper.\u00c2\u00a0 When the paint dries, glue the A to sheet of 8.5×11″ paper for placing in thier alphabet\u00c2\u00a0book.<\/p>\n 6. Prepare a worksheet with A’s for tracing across the top and a large apple shape below.\u00c2\u00a0 Provide fat pencils or markers so they can practice thier A’s.\u00c2\u00a0 Offer bits of red, green and yellow construction paper and a glue stick to create a paper collage apple.\u00c2\u00a0 For the youngest children who might have trouble with glue sticks, you can offer colored “dots” from office supply instead.<\/p>\n 7. Offer a number of different apple items to try — apple slices, applesauce, apple butter, apple vinegar, apple pie, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Have your kidlet prepare a simple chart to record which they liked and which they did not.<\/p>\n 8. Sing “The Ants go Marching”, pretend to be ants crawling around to music.<\/p>\n Apples 1. Draw a letter A to show your child.\u00c2\u00a0 Introduce the idea that an A makes different sounds when it is in\u00c2\u00a0a word.\u00c2\u00a0 One sound is the name of the letter — see if your child can come up with any examples of words that start with that sound, such as apron, acorn, April, ace, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,58,8,16,63,15,9,12],"tags":[134,95,218,112,259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1936"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3326,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1936\/revisions\/3326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnts on a log Ants on a Log<\/a>
\nApple Bites Apple Bites<\/a>
\nApple Cartwheels Apple Cartwheels<\/a>
\nAquarium Cups Aquarium Cups<\/a>
\nJello Aquariums Jello Aquariums<\/a>
\nApplesauce cups
\nApple Cheese Bites Apple Cheese Bites<\/a>
\nAnimal Pawprint Cookies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"