Need a fun way to review the alphabet with your kids? These Alphabet Interactive Mini-Notebooks are absolutely perfect for reviewing beginning sounds and letters. I even used them with Jaida, who was in first grade, as a review of beginning sounds and for some fine-motor skills practice.
Materials Needed for the Alphabet Interactive Mini-Notebooks:
Paper | Scissors | Glue Stick | Staples | Crayons
This is not intended to be a one-time, quick project. Instead you can choose to do one or two letters a week.
Also, you can choose to combine these all into one half-sheet sized book that is all stapled together or you can glue the main portion of the letter pages into a journal. Both options work very well.
When your students are first learning to do these pages, you will want to demonstrate a few times. Often, an accordion-fold is new to kindergarteners. They will likely need your help until they are more familiar with the technique.
Each letter comes on its own full sheet of paper with one half of the page being the main portion of the book and the other half of the page containing the two glue-in pieces of paper.
After cutting out all of the pieces (again, kindergarteners will probably need your help), start by making the “letter book”. Fold both the uppercase letter and the lower case letter backward to form the book. The portion with the triangle that says “back” will be the portion that you glue onto the matching triangle on the main page.
Then, create the accordion-fold of the picture strip. Your first fold will be up, so that the strip can be glued into the book.
Once assembled, have the kids complete the activities!
You may notice that the dot-to-dot letters are not created in traditional writing format. **It is not physically possible to do that due to the nature of a dot-to-dot. Dot-to-dots are intended to be continuous, but most letters are not created in one continuous motion. Instead they are meant as a fun activity to discover the letter.** Since these books are intended for review, that should not cause any handwriting problems.
There is also an additional page at the back of the book with a fun matching activity.
Kate says
July 21, 2015 at 7:37 amCan’t wait to use these with my kiddos next year!
Kim says
July 21, 2015 at 10:48 amI’m sure your kids will enjoy them!
Kristina says
July 21, 2015 at 8:59 amHI
I love these!! I just have one question for you, all you dot to dot letter tracing of the letter is from the bottom up? Is there a way you can make them go from the top to the bottom? For example, you have a always on the bottom or the lower left (for c?) I hope I am making sense with my questions?
Thank you Kristina Clark
kclark@bataviacsd.org
Kim says
July 21, 2015 at 10:45 amNo, there is a variety of different formations within the dot-to-dots. As mentioned, they are for fun and not for a representation of how to write the letter.
wilma guffey says
July 21, 2015 at 2:08 pmI love the interactive ABC books. I have a question about the dot to dot letters, why do you start at the bottom and go up. We always start at the top and go down. I just took all the dot to dots off the paper. Waiting to hear back from you.
The book is great. I am going to use it with my Kinder class.
Wilma
Kim says
July 21, 2015 at 5:14 pmAs I mentioned in the post, it is not physically possible to create a dot-to-dot for every letter in the proper letter formation. The dot-to-dots are intended for fun and I have not seen that as a hinderance for proper letter formation. If you are looking for a tracing page, my ABC Handwriting pages would be a much better option: https://lifeovercs.com/product/alphabet-handwriting-printables-centers/
wilma guffey says
July 27, 2015 at 10:41 amI think you are wrong about letter formation. Some kids come to kinder wanting to start their letters at the bottom. They learn what they practice.
Kim says
July 27, 2015 at 1:16 pmI never said that the dot-to-dots are correct. However, it is physically impossible to create dot-to-dots that consistently follow correct letter formation. I have had hundreds of teachers purchase and use this pack with no problems.
Kim says
August 3, 2015 at 8:50 pmI am homeschooling my 2 and 3 year olds. A fellow homeschooler showed me these and I love them! She said she downloaded them for free but I can’t find them anywhere, not even a sample, for free. Your prices are reasonable but we are on a very tight budget. Do you do promotions or sales I should look out for? I would love to get these!
Kim says
August 4, 2015 at 12:03 amIf you sign up for the newsletter, I offer a specific priced product for free every week. Also through the 5th you can take 25% off everything by using the code: BACKTOFUN during the checkout process.