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""Ten Creative Ways to Teach Your Child the Alphabet""

1. Make an Alphabet Book

Make your own alphabet book with your kids. You can purchase a blank paper book at an educational supply store or you can make one with construction paper and a three-hole punch. Help your child make a page with each letter. You can have him write the letter or find the letter in an old magazine and cut it out. Cut out pictures from an old coloring book or magazine that has words that start with the letter on the page.

2. Play the ABC game whenever you drive somewhere

This is an easy and fun way to teach your child the alphabet. Whenever you drive anywhere play the ABC game. Have your child find the letter A on billboards, or license plates, or signs. Start with the letter A and then look for letter b, c, etc. Once you finish the alphabet you can play again.

3. Sing the Alphabet Song

Children love to sing and what better song to sing than the Alphabet Song. Start your day off with a song or two and be sure to include the ABC song.

4. Play the Alphabet Memory Game

You can purchase flashcards of the alphabet or make your own with card stock paper or construction paper. Have your child match the capital letter A to the lowercase letter a. Or you can start with letters that are all lowercase or all capital. Each time your child matches the letters have him tell you what letter it is.

5. Make Alphabet Cookies

What child doesnÕt love cookies? Get alphabet cookie cutters or use frosting to write the letter on each cookie. Have your child tell you which letter he wants to eat!

6. Make an Alphabet Photo collage

Purchase disposable cameras for your child. Take a trip outside, to the park, zoo, or wherever. Spend your time looking for pictures of words that start with the letter A or B, or whichever letter you choose. When you get the photos developed let your child cut them out and glue them onto a collage. Have your child write or trace the letter for your photo collage onto construction paper and glue the photos around. Children love taking pictures and this is a lot of fun.

7. Another Alphabet Game

We have probably all played this game before. Its fun for kids and can be fun for adults too. If your child is young you can just play a simple game. Start with the letter A. ÒA is for appleÓ, ÒB is for bananaÓ, ÒC is for catÓ, and continue on with all the letters. If your child is older you can play the game with a theme. For example, play lets do the alphabet game with fruit or animals. This way they are learning to sort animals or fruits and also practicing their alphabet.

8. Play Alphabet Bingo

Make your own Bingo cards with construction paper. Write the letters of the alphabet on it. You can make this simple by making your Bingo cards more like a Tic-Tac-Toe game or you can make them like a traditional Bingo card. Call out the letters and have your child mark them or put a Bingo chip on the letter. When your child wins they can yell out Bingo! Purchase little prizes from the dollar store to make this even more fun.

9. Make an Alphabet finger painting

Use poster board or construction paper and make a finger painting with different letters. Have your child paint the capital letter and lowercase letter. Let him decorate it with whatever colors he likes.

10. Play the Alphabet Hide Away Game

Fill a bag with different objects that start with different letter sounds. For example, you could fill it with a car, a book, a pencil, etc. Show the child all the items in the bag. Then put all the items back in the bag. Have them find the items by touching them only. Say can you find something that starts with the letter B? Say what sound does the b make? Then see if they can find the book in your bag just by touching. This game is not only good for learning letters and sounds but also helps them with using their senses and tactile skills.

Kids love animals, so why not use them teach? Cute, gross and unique animals all seem to grab children’s attention, so it’s time to use those critters to our advantage! After all, the whole idea is to get kids excited about learning, right? Most kids are all ears (and tails!) when animals are involved, so here are some of our favorite pet theme lesson plans, crafts, games and activities:


-Pet Lesson Using Franklin the Turtle

Whether they have a pet of their own or not, most kids are fascinated by animals. This preschool lesson plan uses Franklin’s search for a pet in Franklin Wants a Pet to teach children about different types of animals. It also focuses on some of the different environments in which pets live. Preschoolers will practice animal recognition and matching skills with this lesson.


-Connect the Alphabet Puppy Dots

Print out this fun, connect-the-dots picture for kids to practice arranging the letters of the alphabet in order. This PDF, along with many other cute animal theme ideas, can be found at KinderPlans.com.


-Lesson Plan About Caring for Pets

Help kids learn about caring for their pets with this fun lesson based on Mercer Mayer’s book, Just Me and My Puppy. The lesson also includes a short song and game to get children actively involved.


-3-D Pet Craft

This project teaches kids how to make their own 3-D pets, like the featured at the top of this article. The 3-D pet craft is made from a recycled toilet paper roll and scrap materials. This crafts project is great for home or school.


-Pet Games and Activities

Check out these games, printable coloring pages and activities for teaching kids through the use of animals, at ChildFun.com

Connect the Alphabet Puppy Dots

Print out this fun, connect-the-dots picture for kids to practice arranging the letters of the alphabet in order. This PDF, along with many other cute animal theme ideas, can be found at KinderPlans.com.

Kindergarten Reading Lesson Plans This video demonstrates how preschool and kindergarten reading lesson plans can incorporate games as a powerful teaching and learning tool.

5 Ways to Teach a Child Shapes

1.Play Shape Games

Making learning fun is always a great way to teach whether a child is 2 or 20, but toddlers in particular learn best through play. To that end, you should endeavor to make teaching the difference between shapes as fun as possible. Many early-learning toys are specifically crafted in easy-to-recognize shapes like circles, rectangles and triangles. These toys can usually be used to teach color and size as well. When you first start to teach shapes, which children can learn around 18 months old, name each shape and identify the differences between them. For example, you could say, "This is a circle. It has round edges," or "Look at this triangle. It has three sides." As your child starts to learn, ask questions that give him a chance to demonstrate understanding. Eventually, your child should be able to recognize and name different shapes, and then utilize that knowledge to perform tasks like putting the round block in the round hole.




2. Make Snacktime and Mealtime Lesson Time

Food is always a great motivator because it can be an incentive in and of itself. When using food as a teaching tool, you can usually keep your child's complete attention. Pick out foods that come in different shapes, such as square crackers, triangle tortilla chips and round cookies. Have your child pick out the different shapes or match each snack with foods of similar shapes. There are many different ways you can incorporate shapes into your mealtimes including cutting sandwiches into triangles or circles or only serving foods that are one shape for a meal



3. Use Educational Materials

You can use many concept books, children's television programs and DVDs to teach the concept of shapes to your child. These educational materials are often used in daycare and are readily available at your local library or bookstore. The key to teaching with these materials is interaction with your child. Sitting down with her to watch the programs or look at the picture books is infinitely more helpful than letting her explore them on her own. While these materials can be helpful in keeping a child's attention, they are only one part of getting your child to absorb what is taught.



4. Use Shapes in Arts and Crafts


Arts and crafts allow children to take what they learn and put it into practice. When a child can draw or paint a shape out of nothing, it shows greater understanding than simple identification. Creating artwork that is all one shape theme is one way to reinforce the concept. For example, you could teach your child to do a project that is all circles. The next day, you could make a project that is all triangles, and so on.




5. Point out Shapes in the Child's Environment

Applying knowledge about shapes to the objects in their world is the final step in understanding about shapes. Being able to identify that something is shaped like a circle or like a rectangle demonstrates that your child has moved from recognition to comprehension. When you are out with your child, whether taking a walk outside or driving in the car, point out things that make clear shapes. Street sign, road cones, wheels, windows and rocks are just some of the things you can use. Ask questions like, "What shape is that street sign?" or "Do you see any circles anywhere?" This is a learning game you can both enjoy.

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Ways to improve Listening Skills

Identify and remove anything that maybe distracting your child from listening. It is often hard for a child to concentrate when the radio or television is blaring. Removing distractions not only helps your child concentrate, but it also ensures your child has your full attention as well.


Make direct eye contact with the child and lower your voice. Ensuring eye contact with your child allows him to concentrate on what you are saying.


Pull your child aside and speak in low tones. This allows your child to realize that what you are saying is important. They also won't feel embarrassed if they are brought to the side.


Ask open-ended questions that can’t be answered with just a “yes” or a “no." Be patient while your child responds, and remember to ask in soft tones so that your child doesn’t feel intimidated. Continuing to have open conversations and paying full attention when they answer could foster reciprocation.
"If you listen to them, they will listen to you."

The parents should know the skills that its need to thier children .
This all skills are languages art, and they all draw from the same ability to translate ideas
to words and vice versa.

Listening is the first language art, and babies start identifying sounds and speech
patterns before they're born.

Speaking is the second language art, and cannot develop until the person knows the sounds of
the language and has some understanding that these sounds represent things in the real world.

Reading and Writing develop after listening and speaking, and the theory now is that they should be
taught together.

The ability to identify the different sounds of a language,
and learn that these sounds are represented by letters of the alphabet, then reading helps them practice decoding and writing helps them practice encoding.

Learning is much more than encoding and decoding words, though. Students who cannot read can still
do a lot of very "high-level" Thinking about the meaning of a story, the causes and effects and the purpose of the story.

we need to learn how we can communicate with our children and learn how to teaching Children to Communicate:

Children need to be taught how to communicate well, which means learning both how to express themselves clearly and how to listen to others.

From the moment children begin to utter sounds, they are learning how to communicate. They are learning how to get the attention of others and how to get their message across. They are also learning that communication is a two-way process. Children learn about communication from how we respond to them and how we communicate with them. One of the first steps in teaching our children how to communicate well is for us to listen actively to them.

When we actively listen to children, we are letting them know that they can send a message and that their message is important to us. As noted before, it is important that we give them our full attention--listening for the feelings as well as the content of their message. We must restrain from offering advice right away. Second, we need to actively teach children how to listen.

First the child needs to focus on the person who is talking--again eliminating as many distractions as possible. This may mean turning off the television, asking them to look at you, or having them come in the same room with you while you talk with them. Just as we give them our attention, we need to teach youngsters to give their attention to others.

To be sure they have understood your message, ask youngsters to repeat back to you--in their own words--what they heard from you. In this way, you are teaching them to paraphrase what they have heard. Children can also be asked what feeling they are picking up from you. Are you happy, irritated, or sad? In this way they can begin to connect feeling and content. If the child does not repeat the message back clearly, this offers a time for clarification and another opportunity to teach that good communication takes effort--and that we sometimes don’t get it right the first time.

children learn the most by communicating with us and by watching how adults communicate with each other.

We need to be sure to be good role models and to take the time to listen and clearly send our own messages.




And here we have some Communication tips to help you connect with your baby:

Speak naturally and close to an infant's ear. This is a natural way to help the infant discriminate speech from the environmental sounds, particularly if the infant has a slight hearing loss, middle ear infection, or other hearing problem, and does not wear a hearing aid.

Reduce unnecessary noise. Turn off the television or radio and reduce other background sounds if you want the infant to pay attention to what is being said or other spoken information. The signal (speech) must be at least 30-40 dB louder than the background for a hearing infant to be able to attend to it; so background sounds will interfere with the ability to understand what is said.

Develop other infant games, by playing with the children by diffrent ways.

Hold the infant on your chest and dance or sway in time to vocalizations to help the infant make a connection between sound and movement.

Imitate the infant's own vocalizations or actions. Infants will imitate behaviors that are within their own repertOíre before they imitate new behaviors. These imitation exchanges can become enjoyable turntaking games.

Let your child feel absolute acceptance. Let him know that you accept him completely the way he is and love him for what he is. This will enhance his confidence and he will interact better with others. You can do this by a positive body language, appreciative looks and of course verbal motivation.

Readily listen to your child and let him know that you're interested and want to know all about it. Keep the conversation going by asking him questions and being a part of it.

Make it a point to address your child personally before telling him to do anything. Take his name and make sure he has taken you seriously and not just as somebody rattling off in the background.

Use a polite language with kids. Using words like please, sorry, thank you etc will not only make them polite but will also make them feel important.

Always use motivating words. Do not ever discourage your child by telling him that he is not good at something. Always tell him that you have absolute faith in his capabilities and know he can do wonderfully.

Communicating effectively with your child will make him perform better and try hard to achieve his goals. It will make him grow into a positive and matured person with the right approach towards life.