Letter Associations

My good friend Becky teaches Kindergarten, and I went in one day to volunteer just for fun... and I also picked up on some great ideas.  She played this song and they add did actions to it...

Another example is...

The 5 year olds totally loved it!  So, I started teaching my 18-month-old to associate a written letter with a certain word.  I had a white board on the fridge right across from his highchair.  So, during meals I'd write letters and we'd work on it.  We started with one letter and slowly added more and more until he could do this...