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Learning The Alphabet Finding Letters In The

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LEARNING EXPERIENCE Learning the Alphabet Finding Letters in the Garden ENGAGE (5 minutes)  Share the book Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson  Ask students if they think they might be able to find some letters in the outdoor classroom in the same way that letters were found in Alphabet City.  Review the expectations of working in the outdoor classroom. EXPLORE (15 minutes)  Begin by taking the entire class to several different examples of letters that you have found in the garden beforehand.  Allow students to walk around looking for other letters that they see in the natural objects they find. (If students need extra guidance with the shape of the different letters, bring out alphabet cards or an alphabet chart that they can refer to as they’re looking).  If a camera is available, begin taking pictures of all of the letters that the students find. Grade Pre-K - Kindergarten Timeframe 45 - 60 minutes Materials  Student journals/pencils  Alphabet City by Stephen T. Johnson  Student journals/pencils (optional)  Camera (optional)  Alphabet cards (optional) EXPLAIN (10 minutes)  Make a list of all of the letters that the students found in the outdoor classroom.  Decide together which letters were missing, and ask students if they can think of a way they could still see those letters in the outdoor classroom.  Suggest that the class try making the missing letters using objects they can find in the outdoor classroom. ELABORATE (10 minutes)  Doing one letter at a time (or writing the list in a place where everyone can see it as they work), allow students to collect materials and try to create the missing letters by manipulating their objects on the ground.  If using a camera, take pictures of the student-created letters and make a complete class alphabet book using the images that were captured. EVALUATE (5 minutes)  Ask students to use natural objects (grass, stones, leaves, etc.) to make different letters of the alphabet. OBJECTIVES Language Arts III.C.1 child names at least 20 upper case and 20 lower case letters K.1 B identify upper- and lower-case letters Copyright  2014 REAL School Gardens www.realschoolgardens.org