The Alphabet Workbook is a simple and fun no-prep curriculum with repetitive opportunities to practice letters while also incorporating other early learning skills. It’s the key to our success in learning letters at my house, and this post is to tell you how it came to be…
I started homeschooling when my oldest was in kindergarten and my second daughter was three and a half. I didn’t do much organized curriculum with my three year old. There was a lot of play time, reading, and maybe a letter craft or two.
In our second year of homeschool, I had a goal to teach letters and their sounds to my then four and a half year old. Once again, I didn’t purchase anything super serious. I wanted to keep it low key. We started practicing letters by writing them, playing games, building them, playing with play-doh, reading about them…but they weren’t sticking.
Although we were doing a lot of different things, I was having trouble staying consistent. So, a couple months in, I felt like I needed to adjust some things.
I wanted something that my child could do every day (super short!) that would practice a letter a week.
There were all kinds of printouts online, but I’d have to search around and piece it all together. I also wanted to practice things like shapes and colors and counting…So I thought – why not put all of that into ONE? This inspired me to put together the Alphabet Workbook.
Each week in the workbook we would practice one letter while also practicing other early learning skills such as:
- Coloring
- Tracing
- Shapes
- Counting
- Graphing
- Comparing
- Grouping
- Numbers
- Matching
- Patterns
- …and more!
This one workbook would allow us to practice multiple skills in just a few minutes a day.
I wanted the lessons to be short and sweet with a lot of variety. Nobody wants to do the same thing over and over. Many times when you download alphabet worksheets, they all look the same, just with a different letter. That would never fly with my daughter. So, I came up with multiple lessons that are incorporated throughout the workbook.
Each letter has 4 different practice pages, and every page for that letter looks different!
This variety was so great because it not only kept our work interesting, it really allowed me to see her practice many different skills. Each day she looked forward to completing her page, because she truly enjoyed doing it.
After a few weeks of using the workbook, I started noticing a difference.
She was writing more letters and remembering them. We would play games or read books about letters and she was participating and doing well. I was so proud of her! Even more important, SHE was so proud of herself. She really felt successful.
I honestly felt a sense of relief knowing every day we were getting consistent practice.
No more scrambling to find activities or practice pages. Everything was right there for us in the workbook. Every morning we could pull it out and get started. Pretty soon it got to the point where I’d catch her sneaking away with it to surprise me with completed pages. I love that she wanted to put in her best effort!
I know how hard it can be to pick a curriculum, which is why I want to send you a sample that you can try out for a couple weeks.
Don’t you just wish when you were picking curriculum, you could try it out for a few days first? I definitely feel that way when I plan for our homeschool year, but I hope to help you when choosing a curriculum for your little one. I’d love to send you the first three weeks of the workbook for FREE.
I want you to try it out at home to see how it works for your family. I want you to see the variety of activities and how fun and easy it can be to add this into your day. See how short and sweet learning can be with your precious babes.
The complete workbook is 109 pages, and you can get it all for just $5.00.
Why so cheap? I just want to help other families feel less overwhelmed by all of the things. This workbook provides consistency while still being fun to do! If you’d like to get the entire workbook, you can download it here.
My ultimate goal in creating this book was to create a simple, regular routine that would bring my daughter success. Looking back on her year, I’m just so proud of how much she grew and learned!
