Letter of the Week

[lach]

I sometimes read references on here to people doing Letter of the Week with their preschooler, and I'm intrigued. I like themes

What I'm wondering is if people are referring to some specific book or website curriculum, or if just the idea of picking one letter a week and doing stuff with it? In Googling, I found a TON of references to Letter of the Week curricula (some free, some pay), but I'm still not quite sure what people are talking about.

If you did a Letter of the Week study, did you follow someone else's plan, or did you design your own? If you used someone else's (either to the letter, or for inspiration) can you recommend it please? (I'm a TOTAL curriculum junkie: my floor will probably give out at some point soon from all the books I collect). Any suggestions or hints?

[AAK]

I don't hs preschool but letter of the week is very common. Most people I know make their own curriculum for this. Even so, most people I know go in ABC order (even if many reading programs would have them introduced in another order). Most people I know introduce both the upper and lowercase letters (even though most print is in lowercase). Most people also teach the most common sound associated with it.

Other common things include multi sensory tasks. Some examples: glue feathers on the F or glitter on the G. Round up things that begin with the letter of the week. Use cookie cutters with the letter shape. Eat snacks that begin with the correct letter. Go on a walk and find things that start with the letters.

Amy

[Reebekah]

the majority are referring to letteroftheweek.com, which is a hs curriculum developed by a christian mom (but you can skip the religious stuff if it doesnt suit you)

[StormySar]

I use a curriculum for my preschoolers called letter of the week. It has word cards, picture cards, coloring pages, writing pages (though we don't use them), and several pages for each letter of ideas for activities, crafts, field trips, cooking, etc. so that each week they can be surrounded by things that are the letter of the week.

I use a lot of the ideas and the coloring pages. Each week w learn a new letter, upper and lower case. We do a scavenger hunt to create a letter bag (pictures/objects starting wtih the weeks letter) and a scrapbook page (words, pictures that start with the weeks letter from ads, newspapers, old magazines, etc). We find a field trip to go along with the letter of the week and my preschoolers get to have fun writing the letter in rice and on the dry erase board. Other activities are included during the week from the LOTW book.