Learn Any Letter: A Week of ABC Learning for Kids

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When your child gets into the preschool age, its a great time for letter introduction! Whether it’s alphabet recognition, phonics or just introducing the ABCs, they are soaking up everything around them, learning through what they experience, especially through play. 

I’ve put together a week of activities to work on a letter at a time. You can do these activities for just that, or you can mix up the ABCs during the week. Whatever your child is most into.

I know preschool and kindergarten teachers have methods and best practices to what letters to learn first, and in what order. Educators may have research-based opinions on whether they should learn letters sounds before letter names or lowercase letters instead of (or before) uppercase letters.

This week of ABC learning for kids is simply to show you that any of these activities can be applied to learn ANY letter of the alphabet. There’s no need for specific lessons for individual letters just to learn the alphabet.

My Mom Method for ABC Learning for Kids

As you may know, I’m not an educator, so I do things like a mom – I do what works for me and my kids. So if you like the idea of letter-of-the-week (I actually did not), or if you just like the idea of learning about letters as your child is interested (that’s more my method).

My method for my kids to learn the ABCs was simply to use what they’re interested in and build upon that! (Check out this post on building confidence in kids through activities)

If Louis was interested in the letter L because Louis starts with L, then that’s where we started. We’d do some activities around the letter L, even if he already knew that letter. Then, once we found an activity that got him excited, I’d introduce a new letter in the same way. And we’d just build upon that.

If I got some resistance, we’d stop, pull back and go with what he already knows. 

I knew he’d learn what he needed to when he was in school. My job, as his mom, was to supplement and help make it fun. Either prepare him for school learning before he went to preschool, or to help his learning when he was in school and the teacher had comments of “hey, if anything, he could work on this….”

Here are activities to learn a letter a week:

How I plan a week of activities for my kids:

I start with the gauging what my child is interested in (using the “My Child This Week” sheet of the free weekly planner). I fill one out for each of my kids and what they’re into at the moment. I use this as my guide to plan our activities accordingly.

With each of my kids’ interests, I brainstorm 7 activities to do that week. I jot them down on the simple ‘Activities To Do This Week’ planner. 

As for this week of activities to learn any letter, it could be any of our letter learning activities. But for this one in particular, I wanted the ability to be able to focus in on one letter.

My plan is always to include a variety of activities, such as a gross motor, fine motor, a craft or art project, a sensory activity, and either something out in nature or a science project of some sort. This is how The Activity Room was formed and how we format every single week.

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