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Home » Reading Ideas » Alphabet Activities » Al Pha’s Bet- Virtual Book Club

Al Pha’s Bet- Virtual Book Club

October 15, 2012 • 5 Comments

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It’s time for the Virtual Book Club hosted by Toddler Approved, Mommy and Me Book Club and The Educator’s Spin On It.  Each month a different author is featured.  Everyone then selects a book by the chosen author and creates an activity to accompany the book.  The featured author for October is Amy Krouse Rosenthal.

Growing Book by Book decided to go with Al Pha’s Bet.  Al Pha makes a bet with himself that he can arrange the king’s 26 letters into an acceptable order.  The story tells the funny circumstances that cause Al Pha to put the letters in the order that he does.

After reading, why not make a cast of letter characters to use for some storytelling!

“Frowning F”

Materials needed:  2-3 mm foam sheets or heavy cardboard, paint stir sticks, various art scraps, markers and glue

Decide on an attribute for each letter and then create each letter based on your chosen attribute.  Below is a list of ideas for each letter.

“Long-Lashed L”

A: angry, adventurous, artsy                                                                  B: bashful, brainy, bumpy

C: colorful, clown-around, cowardly                                                    D: devilish, dirty, dancing

E: excited, earthy, eager                                                                          F:  frowning, furry, flying

G: gardener, giddy, gorgeous                                                                 H: hot, hole, hairy

I: icky, icy, invisible                                                                                  J: joyful, junky, jumpy

K: kite-flying, kind, kicking                                                                    L: long-lashed, lassoing, language

M: monster, mad, muddy                                                                       N: nerdy, noodle, nutty

O: outstanding, outer space, orange                                                     P: picky, purple, powerful

Q: quick, quiet,  quacking                                                                       R: rainbow, radiant, recycle

S: slimy, starry, stringy                                                                            T: tired, travelling, talking

U: upside-down, ugly, umpire                                                                V: violet, velvet, vocabulary

W: wet, working, weeping                                                                       X: x-ray

Z: zipper, zits, zoo-keeper

“Noodle N’

You are now ready to use your letter characters in a puppet show.  After acting out different stories or scenes, you can transfer your ideas to a book making activity.

Don’t forget to check out other books and activities centered around Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s work at one of the Virtual Book Clubs hosting sites.  At each of the hosting sites you will find others who have linked up their ideas.

Next month, we will feature a book by Tomie de Paola!

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Megan @ CoffeeCupsandCrayons says

    October 21, 2012 at 10:28 pm

    We’ll have to check this one out! We made lower case letter puppets to go along with the Charley’s Alphabet books so this would be a fun addition! Thanks for sharing!

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    • Jodie says

      October 26, 2012 at 2:59 pm

      Good luck. I’d love to hear how they turn out.

      Reply
  2. Trisha @ Inspiration Laboratories says

    October 19, 2012 at 10:53 pm

    We have enjoyed reading Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s books. We haven’t read this one yet. I love the idea of letter puppets.

    Thanks for sharing at the Sunday Showcase! 🙂

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  3. Jen Fischer says

    October 18, 2012 at 1:31 pm

    How clever. I absolutely love these puppets. My preschooler really enjoyed this book too and loves letters, so letter puppets would be right up his alley.

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    • Jodie says

      October 19, 2012 at 6:40 am

      Glad you foudn the idea useful. I know my soon to be 2 year old loves puppets too!

      Reply

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