End of Year Accomplishments – New Year Goals

Giles Bettison at Bullseye Gallery

How was your year? Did 2009 treat you right? Did you make all of the glass goodies you wanted to? What new techniques did you learn? So what are your glass goals for 2010? I’ve got lots of questions don’t I? And do we have answers? Are you going to any glass conferences in 2010? GAS in Louisville? ISGB in Rochester? Bullseye for a class or two?

My main goal for 2010 is opening a glass studio. Some place to work and play and live glass. Explore new techniques and tools and materials. And I’ll be writing about all of it giving you all updates as the date of opening grows nearer. All very exciting! This isn’t my last post of the year. I’ll be doing a last give away in the last day of the year…Thursday. I’m looking for something I want to have you guys tell me…may be about a the favorite thing you made this year. It may be the favorite thing you plan to make next year. Or where you’re going…I’ll keep you posted.

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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