- Room set up:
Playdough and cookie cutter letters
Plastic Letters and "Coconut Tree" (paper towel tube with fern)
"Chickaboomers" (egg shakers)
ABC's and sorting mat

- Vocabulary:  alphabet, coconut, language, and letters 
   (different from numbers)

- Program for Computers:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom 
Letters, Sesame Street  by The Learning Company
Dr. Seuss's ABC   by Broderbund
KID PIX (Art Program) for older students to use 
  to "paint letters". Add a picture of the coconut tree 
  that letters can be typed on and printed.* 


-Book List:
ABC   by Bruno Munari's
A Bug C  by Edna Romero
Alphabet Soup Book  by Jackie Wolf
Alphabatics  by Suse MacDonald
Animalogices  by 4th Granders in Bridgepot, Connecticut
apple to zebra (mini book)
Clifford's A B C  by Norman Bridwell
Eating the Alphabet  by Lois Ehlert
Meet You at the Top by Class of 1999
Now I Eat My ABC's   by Pam Abrams
Thomas's ABC Book  by Rev. W. Awdry
Touch and Feel ABC  by Dorling Kindersley Publishing
Word Bird's School Words  by Jane Belk Moncure
  
- Carry over to classroom project:  
   Students bring in items (beans, rice, etc) to make their
   own "Chickaboomers" from baby juice bottles.  Label bottles 
   with students' names written clearly.                
Chicka Boom out their names... "C told O and O told L....."  Coleen, Coleen, 
   will there be enough room?  Meet you at the top of the coconut tree!
Art:  green feathers, brown poms, brown paper bags
ABC Stamps & stamp pads   

- Other links:
Alphabet Book List
Homemade Playdough
ABC's and 123's Song
EZLab