SUPER SIMPLE Themed ABC Practice

Alphabetic Principal. That is the term used to describe kids understanding of letter shapes, the names of letters and the sounds each letter makes. I used the die cut machine at our school to make fun shaped flashcards with the letters of the alphabet on them. They were super simple to make and a lot cuter than plain index cards. I can pick whichever shape I want and make them correlate with a holiday that month or a unit we are working on.

This month is October and we celebrate halloween at the end of the month so I cut out ghosts and wrote all of the lower case letters on them. I only did the lower case letters on the ghosts as these are the form they will see these letters most of the time (lowercase). I am going to make pumpkins with CAPITAL letters on them and my kids who know most of the letters will match the upper and lower case... Match the capital A on the pumpkin to the lower case a on the ghost.

It is super simple and easy to make. The kids catch on quickly and if they finish something early they can do it independently by putting the letters in order or they can do it with a partner. Kids that already know all of the letters in the alphabet will use the SAME CARDS to practice letter sounds. These cards really are versatile and so easy to make and use.

Here is a picture of the ghost letters I made earlier today.