Bullseye Forum – Help with your Glass “Situations”

There’s nothing better than having a place to go to have your glass questions answered. I know I try to help when I can but I certainly don’t know everything about glass. There’s so much to know. But now Bullseye, they know just about everything there is to know about sticky glass situations. Here’s an example over at their forum.

Kerry created a piece that required multiple firings. The components needed to be fused before they were assembled and then they were tack fused together. Her piece developed a crack that actually healed itself during the process but was still visible. She submitted her situation to the forum and was given a solution. Check it out. It’s good to know you can get some technical help when you need it. Now don’t forget to check in tomorrow for the last posting of 2009. There’s a giveaway involved. But that means you have to participate.

I did a post earlier this year with activities and ideas for teaching the alphabet, but a lot or learning letters and recognizing them just has to do with seeing them and working with them a lot.

That means coloring, tracing, identifying things that start with different letters and more.

One way to reinforce the letters is through little activity books like these cute printable alphabet books from Life Over Cs.

These are available for free when you subscribe to her newsletter, and I’d say that’s well worth it if you have a little one (or a group of little ones!) working on the alphabet and letter recognition.

Each mini book includes a collection of things that start with that letter to color, color and read with words that start with the letter, tracing the letter, finding the letter in a grid and other coloring pages with objects that start with that letter.

These little books are super useful reinforcing the different letters and giving kids different activities related to the letters.

If you do a letter of the day or letter of the week you can use a new book for each one, and then keep the copies in your reading center or in a basket where kids can look at them again.

And of course you can add in all the other letter activities you like, go on a scavenger hunt for items that start with that letter, read alphabet books, practice writing letters in rice or with pompoms or playdough or whatever sensory activities you like.

You can grab the free printables when you enter you email address at Life Over Cs, and check out her other great alphabet resources and activities while you are over there.

Do you have favorite activities for teaching letters to kids? I’d love to hear about them!

[Photo: Life Over Cs]

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