Cut giant lettersout of heavy paper or poster board and let children decorate them with glitter,stickers, fake jewels, etc. Puncha hole in each letter and tie on a piece of string so it an be worn around theneck. Children can wear these whenyou sing alphabet songs and then break dance when the letter that they arewearing comes up in the song.
Hint! You could let children decorate theletter that their name begins with or just let everyone in the class choose adifferent letter.
Here are somesongs that would fun to sing with the necklaces:
Happy BirthdayLetters – (Totally Reading CD)
Yo, A,
It’s yourbirthday.
Let’s all read
Like yourbirthday.
/a/ /a/ /a/ /a//a/ /a/
/a/ /a/ /a/ /a//a/ /a/
Yo, B…etc.
WhoLet the Letters Out? (KissYour Brain CD)
Wholet the A out? /a/a/a/a/
Who let the B out? /b/b/b/b/
Wholet the C out? /c/c/c/c/
Etc.
