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Today I’m happy to be doing the Letter A for the 31 Days of ABCs. Last year I did the letter P<\/a>. We had so much fun. I thought I would share a few of the ways we did our letter A activities.<\/p>\n

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There are so many different activities that you can do for the letter A. I thought I would highlight a few A activities that we have done. lot of the activities we use come from the Romping & Roaring A Pack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Playdough Mats<\/h2>\n

Play dough mats are always fun to use. There is one in the Romping & Roaring A Pack<\/a> and also the Play Dough Mat Lowercase Tracing Page<\/a> and Uppercase Tracing Page<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dot Marker and Letter Mazes<\/h2>\n

We use the pages from the Romping & Roaring A Pack<\/a> to review out letters with the dot marker and the letter maze. We used apples to make our way through the letter maze. We used dot marker<\/a>\"\" for the A dot marker page. We have used other things with them as well. Try to make something hands on and not just a worksheet when you can.<\/p>\n

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Apple Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n

I love having a themed sensory bin to go with our letter. This is a great way to introduce the letter through a hands on experience. You can check out all we did with our apple sensory bin<\/a>. It is a great way to have a hands on learning.<\/p>\n

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Measuring with Apples<\/h2>\n

We often take the item we are learning about like Apples and use them for measuring. We made different playdough lines and measured them by the apples.<\/p>\n

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Gross Motor Ideas<\/h2>\n

Here are some fun ideas for gross motor that you can do with the letter A.<\/p>\n

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  • Ant: marching in place<\/li>\n
  • Avalanche: roll quickly across the floor<\/li>\n
  • Alligator: chomp with your hands while walking<\/li>\n
  • Airplane: fly like an airplane<\/li>\n
  • Astronaut: pretend big bounces on the moon<\/li>\n
  • Ax: Pretend chopping a tree<\/li>\n
  • Ape: walk around like a big ape<\/li>\n
  • Armadillo: roll onto back holding legs roll back and forth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n