Alphabetically Yours: Volume: 1 Issue: Rr Free Newsletter by Mrs. Alphabet 26 times yearly. Welcome to the eighteenth edition of Alphabetically Yours. I am looking forward to introducing you to a multitude of activities, suggestions, and tips for Having Fun with the Alphabet. Please feel free to write with any questions and comments. I will answer back A.S.A.P. Anne@mrsalphabet.com Rr Activities: Alphabet Animal Sound game By Mrs. Alphabet: Letter Rr Rock like a rooster in the coop Rocking for the barnyard group. Hear the r sound in my name Play the r sound animal game! Go to http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet/barnyard/pictures/rooster.jpg Rockport By Mrs. Alphabet Use this poem to identify and spot R names, elicit new R names, and then brainstorm other places to live that begin with a R from your class. Ray, Randy, and Rick live in Rockport with me Rona, Rachel, and Roy want to visit and see. What other R kids do you think live there In marvelous Rockport far, far away from here? Interview 6 people and ask them this question: Do you like ravioli? Record the results Describe a raccoon and then illustrate the raccoon. Fill in the blanks: Raccoons like to ____________, _____________, and _____________. Go to http://www.wqe.com/zoonet/jackson/pictures/raccoon.jpg to see a really rambunctious raccoon. Take an imaginary trip on a roller coaster; describe what you see and then illustrate your story. Then visit here to go on a virtual ride: http://discovery.com/exp/rollercoasters/video.html Visit Rhode Island; locate on your map or globe: http://www.state.ri.us/ Take a taste test using Rolo candies and create a rating scale or rubric with your class. For science use this recipe at http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/beak man/rock-candy.html to make rock candy,observe, and describe what happens. Remember to Reach in those hard to get places and go here: http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/pc/reachforget.html to download a cute matching game for healthy teeth. Use raisins as counters or for simple math problems: estimating, counting, adding, sorting, patterns, subtracting, or bingo markers. Play reggae or rock and roll music for naptime or as background music during center time. Reese's Pieces Math can incorporate counting, graphing, sorting, measuring, predicting, and comparing. Use different size Russell Stover boxes for a math lesson demonstrating: color, shape, size, sorting, and counting. Graph your favorite restaurant. Graph how many children were born in Rhode Island. If I were a ranger I would _________________, but I wouldn't __________________. If I were a ringmaster I would _____________________, but I wouldn't __________________. Create class R charts and place child's name at the end of his/her sentence: Make a list of Rugrat characters and visit them at: http://www.nick.com/rugrats_movie/ Find objects that are red in color. View or print out Renoir's work here and talk about what the children notice and observe: http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/renoir_ext.html Ready to make a collage using ribbons and rice for an art project. Create Rainbow names by letting your students trace letters in their name using the colors in the rainbow. First print their name or let them print the name in black marker then use one color at a time. Before or after your project visit Rainbow Brite and her friends at: http://www.cyberfocus.net/80schica/Rainbowland/ Remember to recycle and go here for some really neat art projects using recycled articles: http://www.kinderart.com/recycle/ Draw a picture of a rhombus. Discuss what you notice from the pictures. Smell raspberry and see if the children can guess the smell. Then make this treat at: http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Cookies/15260.html Ready for a real special treat make Root Beer Floats and have the children write their own recipe for how they made it. Here's a recipe you can follow or try your own: http://www.whatscooking.com/recipes/old_recipes/krrootbeerfloats.htm List names that begin with R and talk about what you see or hear. Check names in the class for r sounds. Make a graph of children that have the R sound in their name. Read a poem and have children color code all the r words. Try introducing this r word: roof Ask the children what they notice about the word. Whose family has the most R names? Use these words to rhyme: rat ray rot rear rest row rib read run Tongue Twister: Raining, Rita Rabbit raced rapidly running. Make a predictable chart: At the rodeo I saw ____________. Give 3 reasons you think some children get rashes. Order your students in a line from R to P. Record the date and time while racing from one point to another. Repeat once a week or monthly and try to improve your time. Ranking high on my list is this first rate reading resource: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Atrium/1783/NotAnotherInservice.html R Books: Rosie's Walk Round Trip Rumpelstiltskin The Rainbow Fish R Authors: Michael Ross: http://home.inreach.com/meross/index.html Shoo Rayner: http://www.shoo-rayner.co.uk/ Please help: To help me defer some of my expenses I have put an Amazon.com link in my store: http://www.mrsalphabet.com/store.html and several links on my links page: http://www.mrsalphabet.com/links.html If you could go exploring and visit these pages I would appreciate the inquiries and support. Thank you very much. Please help: Ken and view his new game Hang2000 which is a simple word-guessing game that is completely customizable and suitable for all ages. You can enter your own words one at a time, or create your own lists of words, vocabulary lists, etc. The "large guessing letters" can be shown as big block capital letters, or large lower case letters. The graphics are colorful and non-violent, the sounds are digitized and fun for children (even includes the voice of children!). It's a game you can grow with. The number of guesses can be adjusted for many levels of difficulty. The game requires a Macintosh that can display 256 colors (or more.) For more info: http://www.winograd.com Alphabetically Yours, Anne AKA Mrs. Alphabet P.S. A special thank you to Maria for editing Alphabetically Yours. For your Free Newsletter Visit: http://www.mrsalphabet.com