Awesome Animal Alphabet Poems: ABC – Book

Created to help children learn the correct starting points for the lower case letters, and create an auditory link between the visually related objects that make the correct letter sound. Each page has color animal actions to follow.

This book can be found on Amazon HERE

The students really like the letter u page. they laugh at the word underwear. Uncle umbrella bird flies under the underwear, these are all short u vowels sounds. This is important because bossy r words block the short u sound and the long u words like ukulele do not help students with the short vowel decoding of CVC words. (consonant vowel consonant)

Ukulele is also a Hawaiian word, so the long e sound at the end of word does not follow the normal English spelling rules.

Letter tracing cards can be found on my Teachers Pay Teachers shop – Pure Joy Teaching

Link to my shop HERE

You can download and print these cards, that are based on the my book. Use them in your classroom or home to help students with handwriting.

Awesome Alphabet Poems

the perfect book for young learners! This colorful, interactive resource is designed to teach preschool and kindergarten children the correct starting and stopping points of lowercase letters, making it a fantastic tool for early literacy development.

Awesome Animal Alphabet Poems: A Fun and Engaging Learning Adventure

Welcome to Awesome Animal Alphabet Poems—the perfect book for young learners! This colorful, interactive resource is designed to teach preschool and kindergarten children. Practicing the correct starting and stopping points of lowercase letters, makes it a fantastic tool for early literacy development.

Animal Theme

Each page features fun, animal-themed poems that guide children step-by-step as they trace the letters with their fingers. With clear starting points marked by a green dot and arrows that direct the movements, little learners can easily follow the animal actions while mastering each letter.

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b sounds Ben, bear, blueberry, buzzing bees

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Why You’ll Love This Book:

Engaging & Fun: Simple rhymes and vibrant illustrations captivate children’s attention and make learning the alphabet an enjoyable experience.
Kinesthetic Learning: The finger-tracing activity helps build muscle memory, promoting better letter recognition and laying the foundation for handwriting skills.
Memorable Rhymes: Easy-to-remember sayings help children recall the movements of each letter, supporting both reading and writing success.
Perfect for Home or School: Ideal for classroom activities or at-home learning, this book is designed to nurture early literacy skills in a way that sparks curiosity about animals and the world around them.
Builds Confidence: With every turn of the page, children will gain confidence in their letter-writing abilities, setting them up for future success in handwriting and reading.
Letter Sounds: Poems use words that tie into the main letter sound. Letter sounds are extremely important for reading and decoding skills.

From A to Z, Awesome Animal Alphabet Poems is a fun, effective, and memorable way to help children discover the world of letters through animals, movement, and rhymes. Whether in the classroom or at home, this book is sure to be a favorite for young learners as they begin their journey toward literacy!

Handwriting

Air Writing ABC Book

Download and print the flashcards for this book. Teachers Pay Teachers

For play-based learning; with Air Writing

Students can pretend to be an airplane, and mirror the letter movements of the teacher. This exercise can help them learn the correct starting and stopping points of the capital letters. The helpful green dot shows the starting point of the letter, with numbered steps for letters that have more than one step. Valuable teacher instruction pages and Flash Card pages that can be cut out of the book to use in class. The reversed alphabet chart on the back cover of this book, helps to remind the teacher in which direction to make the letters. Very helpful when the book or the card is facing the students.

Mirror image; Why does it look backwards?

Remember my right is your left, when we are facing each other. This book will help teachers so the students will NOT be seeing the reversed Image by mistake. It can aid and support future handwriting success, while learning feels like play.

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Read Write and Paint in classroom

After reading we talked about ways that we might paint like the pets in the story.

The kids in room 6, really enjoyed the story this week.

Based on the Book If A Pig Could Paint

When the pig hides the paints from the other pets, one little girl said, “I see them hiding in the hay.”

The class did not think the pig would share the paints.

Brainstorming in ideas

After reading we talked about ways that we might paint like the pets in the story. Next week they will make story bubbles and write sentences based on the book.

I can hardly wait to see the art.

Links to the downloads HERE.

And find book Here.

This children’s book features animals creating paintings, with some of their artworks resembling true masterpieces. It was thrilling to discover how many of the great artists were familiar to the young readers!

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Different ways to Use Flashcards

There are lots of ways to use flashcards in the classroom.

Hook them together: a small little hole punched in the corner of each one will keep them together, & make them easier to flip. * I love to hang my flashcards right next to my circle time chair. The flashcards add to the decor of the room instead of creating clutter on my shelf.
Dry Erase: Some cards need to be laminated first, but Dry Erase pens are great for tracing and circling counted items. This works well at the writing table and can easily be put on a tray as a choose your own activity on the math shelf.

The mnemonic abcs & handwriting cards are very useful cards to link together.

Take a look below or jump to my Teachers Pays Teachers site

Alphabet Poems Trace & Learn Letter Formation Cards: Awesome Animals ABC

Mnemonic Alphabet cards Lowercase letters with pictures a-z short vowels

Air Writing Flash Cards with Teacher directions

Try my starfish count and clip cards at my shop.

or my heart cards Here.

Teaching with Letter of week creation facts is fun

In my preschool classroom, we use letter-of-the-week items. I try to include many real creation facts in the week. This has had an amazing result on the students. Many parents are surprised at the new thing their kids are interested in.

One example is the letter O for octopus.

Octopus lives in the ocean, has 8 arms, and squits ink. Cool right!

I have grouped together a book, counting cards, and few playdough activities, and a coloring sheet.

The book Oliver the Octopus

Using olives, onions, on, off, odd, oval, opal, and open, all of these words are better than using the word orange. Yes, the words do start with the letter o. The phonemic sound is actually the r-controlled sound “or” and the letter g is softened to the soft “j” sound by the silent e. These can be confusing concepts for emergent readers. Now that I have started using easy-to-decode words with my students, my results have improved.

I save the word orange for lessons about r-controlled words and reasons for silent e.

Christian Valentines from Teacher to Students

In the Christian classroom we try to always bring every holiday back to God is the reason for the season.

During my first year teaching in a Christian preschool, I was caught off guard by Valentine’s day. The stores did not have any Valentine’s that I wanted to give to my students.

There were some very creative moms in my class and they inspired me to make up my own Christian Valentines for my students. Using the shape and size of a standard Hershey bar, I created a wrapper that said, “HE IS LOVE.”

The kids loved it. One precious little boy lit up with excitement, ” A big candy bar, all for me!” He was overwhelmed by the large size of it in his small hand.

His wonderful mom said, he needed to eat lunch first and it might be nice to share that big candy bar.

School policy says we only celebrate Christian holidays in the classrooms. We always bring every holiday back to God and the reason for the season. Valentine’s Day is no different. One of our memory verses is:

God is Love.

1 John 4:16.

So the phrase “He is Love, ” makes sense, for his holiday gift.

I put other verses on the back and left a space for me to write their names. The original master copy is signed by me, which saves me time each year.

I have put this item on Tpt, if you’re interested in this download printable check it out HERE!

Blessings.

Be sure to check out: Answers in Genesis website. It has lots of free videos for kids and adults. It is a valuable resource for parents and teachers. My family loves it.

Ed Said, “d, id, t.” Suffix Game

Zebra countdown to Zoom book

10, 9, 8…..Counting down to zoom, with the excitement of a rocket balloon. Zack the Zebra illustrates how to make a balloon rocket with simple household items. A Stimulating way to inspire education, fun, science, and math. Great indoor entertainment, easy DIY. Kids love balloons, spark interest in physics and release fun.

This book is available on Amazon in paperback and ebook.

Balloon Rocket Tack Cards, and printable Awards for a STEM Project

Printable downloads on TpT, Teachers Pay Teachers are in the works and will be available soon. Joining TpT is free.

Right now there is a free download of my shape & color cards.

For classroom display and word wall poster printables, find my Alphabet cards, Maori Numbers, & more with the Zebra Frame Pattern.

See more of my items HERE.