Alphabet In My MOUTH

So after attending Dr. Jean's workshop last year I could not wait to make a big book with my class.  I decided to use the song The Alphabet In My Mouth and we started collecting food labels. I thought this would be a great way to reinforce letter recognition at home and get the kids on "the lookout" for the different letters we were learning in the classroom. I did not know how much fun they were going to have and I did not know they were going to turn into "trash collectors". They started asking to keep their food labels from snack time and lunch time. They did not want to throw anything away.

So after collecting all the labels I used construction paper for the pages, each page had its own letter. The kids sorted the labels and added them to the different pages of our book. 

It was interesting to see what type of foods they had been eating. I think our letter K page was full of Kool-Aid!

 The sorting helped with teaching beginning, middle, and ending sound. They might find the letter I in the middle of the word and want to add it to the letter I page, so we would talk about beginning, middle, and ending sounds.

This was a great Phonics lesson and pssstt... they didn't even know I was teaching. They just thought Mrs. Skidmore was letting them sort through trash. LOVE IT!









This was so much fun that I decided to take their pictures with their mouths wide open and add them to the book and we talked about how we eat letters everyday. Of course, we didn't stop with just the book. My kids love to sing songs, so I had to create a song/video to go along with it. Today was the first day we watched the video and it was hilarous. I can't wait to start on our next class book.