ABC Crash Course (FLEX)

***this is a FLEX course*** In this 7-week course students will be introduced to beginning sounds, vowel sounds, and capitol vs. lower case letters using a unique system that has the most success at comprehension. With the use of teaching videos by myself, other fun videos, crafts, games, activities, books, and interactive Google slides. Students will be asked to participate in discussion questions and review activities using Nearpod and Kahoot.

Here is a brief overview of the course:

Week #1: capitol- vs. lower-case letters & introducing the ABCs - (Book "The Monster Alphabet"). 
Week #2: letters P, D, F, T - (Book "Alphabet Rescue). 
Week #3: vowels - (Book "I am an Apple). 
Week #4: letters M, S, R, G, L - (Book "Elemenopee"). 
Week #5: letters V, Y, X -  (Book "ABC Train")
Week #6: letters N, C, B, N, L - (Book "Jungle ABC")
Week #7: letters W, J, Z, Qu - (Book "ABCs at the Haunted House")

Students will be asked to participate in some fun crafts, activities, and games. Students will need to post some evidence of their participation in these activities including a picture of the final product or a video of their process. Some activities we will be participating in are:

- sensory bin object sort for beginning letter sounds
- sensory bin letter sort
- Popsicle card, letter/picture sort
- beginning sound clips
- build the letter with Popsicle sticks
- play-doh mats
- DIY play-doh (and building letters with it)
- DIY sand (and building letters with it)
- DIY paint baggies (fill baggy with paint and write letters)
- sensory tray used to write letters (use shaving cream, salt, sand, rice....)
- DIY sprinkle baggy (and write letters)
- fill in letter mats (with puff balls, objects, beans, rice....)
- Lego writing

Books:
The Alphabet (series) By: Bela Davis
Letter Book Series By: Meg Greve Illustrated by: Marc Mones
Alphabet Fun (series) By: Nick Rebman
The Sound of..... (series) By: Alice K. Flanagan
Letter Sounds By: Kim Mitzo Thompson, Karen Mitzo Hilderbrand Illustrated by: Iesha Wright
Discover the Alphabet (series) By: Xist Publishing

Videos:
Go With YoYo: Move Like Each Letter of the Alphabet

- Throughout this class, students will engage with their peers through the use of Kahoots! and class wide games like Jeopardy! and BINGO. Nearpod will also be utilized to demonstrate what students have learned, engage in virtual field trips, and allow for classmate interaction. 

- Students will also post their completed crafts and assignments for their classmates to comment on. Students will follow along with various crafts such as coloring pages, multimedia crafts, informative diagrams, cut and paste crafts, and so much more! We will engage in activities such as interactive google presentations, mini info books, and super exciting experiments! 

- Also shared in the classroom will be exciting videos for students to watch and learn from, guided questions will be attached to each video. 

- Anchor charts will be used as visuals.