{"id":4431,"date":"2012-10-15T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2012-10-15T18:47:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T10:47:55","slug":"alphas-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/alphas-bet\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha&#8217;s Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this month&#8217;s Virtual Book Club for Kids we picked up Alpha&#8217;s Bet by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Kuttyma can identify all alphabets and is a pre-reader and this book was a great pick. We did couple of of activites using the book as our guide.<\/p>\n<p>Activity 1:<\/p>\n<p>Chopstick letters &#8211; Using the book as our guide, we created alphabets. It helped her understand how the letters are actually written and soon she was a pro.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/attachment-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"attachment (9)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/attachment-9-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/attachment-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4494\" title=\"attachment (10)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/attachment-10-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/attachment-10-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/attachment-10.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glitter Bling<\/p>\n<p>Spray paint, old magnetic letters and we blinged some letters. We also learned to spell kuttyma&#8217;s name again using glitter<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/attachment-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4438\" title=\"attachment (2)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/attachment-21-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/attachment-21-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/attachment-21.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/attachment-31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4441\" title=\"attachment (3)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/attachment-31-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/attachment-31-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/attachment-31.jpg 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- start LinkyTools script --><script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/thumbnail_linky_include.aspx?id=163134\" type=\"text\/javascript\" ><\/script><!-- end LinkyTools script --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this month&#8217;s Virtual Book Club for Kids we picked up Alpha&#8217;s Bet by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. Kuttyma can identify all alphabets and is a pre-reader and this book was a great pick. We did couple of of activites using the book as our guide. Activity 1: Chopstick letters &#8211; Using the book as our guide, we created alphabets. It helped her understand how the letters are actually written and soon she was a pro. &nbsp; Glitter Bling Spray paint, old magnetic letters and we blinged some letters. We also learned to spell kuttyma&#8217;s name again using glitter &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[832],"class_list":["post-4431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library","tag-virtual-book-club-for-kids"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alpha&#039;s Bet &#8212; PoohsDen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourowncorner.com\/poohsden\/alphas-bet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alpha&#039;s Bet &#8212; PoohsDen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For this month&#8217;s Virtual Book Club for Kids we picked up Alpha&#8217;s Bet by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. 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