Alphabetically Speaking

Every now and then I think back to my days as a teacher.  Sometimes I miss the smallest things... the chalkboards and whiteboards but not Smartboards...too complicated for my liking. I loved picture books, chapter books,  but not really workbooks. And I loved the ALPHABET...does that seem strange?  I think it had something to do with handwriting...I always loved handwriting class as a student (maybe it was my best subject ha ha) and really wanted to stomp my foot and throw a fit when they went to the modern print/cursive style of  D'Nealian handwriting (by this time I was a teacher ;).  Look how EASY...to teach it... to learn it... to move from manuscript to cursive. I am not too certain the D'Nealian generation ever moved beyond chicken scratch with tails at the end...but maybe those were just the many students I had through the years! 

Ah well this is not even a post about handwriting...but rather the alphabet, so back to the subject!  I loved when all the world was into the Alphabet style book... S is for Sunshine... A is for America...Journey Around Boston from A to Z...  The other day my husband and I were talking and he told me that a long distance running tip is to go through the alphabet and think of something you are thankful for for each letter...a is for angel food cake, b is for banana splits...c is for coconut cake (seems more like a dessert list than a thankful list but remember we're running a marathon here, so we are possibly delirious and most definitely have been deprived of anything remotely sweet for months)!

Why am I rambling on you ask...I am going to start a new series on my blog called Alphabetically Speaking.  Who knows where this will lead, but I've got a list started in my head that I want to talk about...alphabetically.

Here are a few of my very favorite alphabet books that I've collected through the years.

You gotta love a good picture book that teaches some simple facts!

I hope that you will look forward to monthly posts with an alphabetical twist! Next month's will be all about graduating from high school!