Alphagator

Activity Name: Alphagator 
Age group: 4 to 5 years old
Number of Children: 10
Length of time: 15 to 20 minutes

Area of development: Language and cognitive skills

Goal of the Activity: Promoting recognition of the letters of the alphabet in a fun way and interactive way.

Objective of the Activity: The children will be able to retell the story and sing the alphabet confidently.

Materials Required:

• Alphagator (homemade interactive book)

Introduction: 

• Alphabet song
• Read the story (while reading you can ask a child to participate and hold the stick that contains with letter and let the child feed the alphagator with it.)

Educator's Role: 

• Tell the story to the children and show to the children the interactive book on how to use it.
• Ask an open-ended question.
  

Detailed Progression of this activity:

• Let the children sit on semi-circle and tell about the Alphagator story.
• Ask the children what happened to the Alphagator after he ate the first group of letters.
• Ask the children what letter that makes him not to fall sleep.
• Let the children identify what letter that plays snake on Alphagator's tummy.
• Before the end of the story, let the children guess if the Alphagator can sleep tight on that night.
• Ask the children to repeat two or more words from the story to practice vocabularies. 

Transitions:

1. Alphabet song
2. Acka Backa

Please click: Alphagator Story