Materials List
In addition to the literature, the Alphafriends Letters and Language Kit, the Sing and Share Kit, the Oral Language Cards, the Rhyme and Chant Posters, and the Teacher's Resource Book, you may also need to gather the following materials (depending on your activity choices). Materials are listed in the order in which they are used throughout each week.
Week 1
- Math Concept Card 21
- magnetic letters
- pointer
- name cards
- chart paper
- cubes (assorted colors)
- bear counters or other manupulatives
- toy school bus
- Math Concept Card 30
- string
- hand mirror
- paper bag
- pictures of day and night skies
- small ball
- hole punch
- classroom books
Week 2
- attribute blocks or cardboard cutouts of circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles
- Math Concept Card 18
- name cards
- lock
- child's bicycle helmet
- chart paper
- cubes
- a variety of books
- growth chart
- picture of a leopard
- cardboard coins
- graphing mat
- toy telephones and other pieces of technology
- children's phone numbers on index cards
- drawing paper
- tape
- cones, cubes, rectangular prisms, cylinders
- classroom books
Week 3
- examples of cones, spheres, rectangular prisms, cylinders
- graphing mat
- calendar
- paper cutouts of ovals, triangles, squares
- graphing grid
- a variety of books
- bucket balance
- chart paper
- book
- cup
- tape
- map
- key
- box
- Math Concept Cards 1, 2, 3
- paper rectangle
- paper semicircle
- paper bag
- simple musical instruments
- index cards with children's phone numbers and home addresses
- scissors
- classroom job list (if available)
- paste
- name cards
- magnetic letters “K” and “k”