Overview
Tell the children that they will turn a letter A into an acrobat as they recognize and name the letter A.

Literacy Activities
Give an A ticket to see acrobats. 

• Write the letter A on a whiteboard, name the letter, and have the children write the A in the air with their fingers. 
• Explain to the children that acrobat starts with the letter A and an acrobat is someone who does physical acts like tumbling or tightrope walking, etc. 
• Scatter the letter cards around the room. 
• Tell the children that in order to get into an acrobat show they will have to find a letter A card to use as their ticket. 
• Have the children search the room for letter A tickets. 
  • If a child misidentifies a distractor letter as the letter A, then refer the child to the letter A on the whiteboard and ask, “Does your letter look like the letter on the board?” 
• Let the children place their A tickets on a picture of an acrobat to get into the show. 
• Tell the children that you hope they admire the acrobats and explain that when you admire someone or something, you think they are great and cheer for them.
• Show the children a video of acrobats performing and have the children admire (cheer for) the acrobats as they watch the show. 
• Write the words admire and acrobat on the board and have the children find the letter A in the words.

Turn an A into an acrobat. 

• Give the children an A letter card. 
• Ask a few of the children to pretend that their A letter card is an acrobat by making it do flips and tricks while the rest of the children watch. 
• Remind the other children who are watching that they need to act like a good audience and admire (cheer for) the acrobat that is performing. 
• Allow the children to reverse roles as many times as desired.

More Practice
Write the letter A 

• Give the children the letter-writing practice page.
• Let the children trace the As, then have them write As on their own using the lines as a guide. 
• Let the children admire each other's A practice page when they finish writing.