Elmo's ABC Book published by Dalmation Press

Yesterday our book was chosen by Eryn. In Elmo's ABC Book, "Elmo is trying to decide what Elmo's favorite letter is." It seems that everything he sees reminds him of why the letter that object begins with may be his favorite. It's not the best book for children just learning their abc's as it doesn't give a straightforward rendition of the abc's. But it did easily lend to a follow up activity.

I had previously seen on Pinterest a pin on doing an indoor scavenger hunt. This came to mind when I reviewed this book. Just as Elmo found objects that brought to mind what may be his favorite letter, we looked for objects to begin with each letter of the alphabet, in order. Initially I printed a handwriting practice page (from www.handwritingworksheets.com) for Eryn, Eva and Ellisyn, with the thought that I would use Ellisyn's to write the word for each letter/object, and later Eryn and maybe Eva could copy Ellisyn's paper to try writing on their own. I soon found myself writing the word on all three copies. But by letter K Eva lost interest, so I wrote on only Eryn's from then on. Eryn never was interested in writing on her own, but she did review the words for the objects that we found.