Take your class on a field trip around the school grounds to find objects in nature that start with the letters of the alphabet. Before the excursion, prepare a list of animals, insects, plants and matter (for instance, sand, gravel and cement) that start with every letter of the alphabet until you have at least one item for each letter. Make sure that your list includes common objects that you can find on most school grounds. Set up 10 to 12 "stations" around the school grounds where students can spend 10 minutes looking for items that start with two to three letters of the alphabet.
Make a sign for each station that shows two to three letters of the alphabet until you have used all letters in the alphabet. For each student, create an 8 inch by 10 inch journal that has a letter of the alphabet, written in large print, at the top left corner of each page.
Give each student 2- to 3-gallon size zip-top plastic bags, a small plastic jar, a pencil and a journal. Take your class to the first station. Give them 5 to 10 minutes to look for non-man-made items that start with the letters shown at that particular station. Encourage students to gather and place items in their plastic bags and jars, whenever possible. If an object, such as air, cannot be captured, tell students to use their pencils and help them write down "air" on their "A" marked journal page. Help students move from one station to the next, until they have visited all stations; help them to write down objects on each page of their journals. Help students fashion lids of aluminum foil for their jars, should they decide to place insects in the jars to prevent them from escaping.
Bring students back to class and have them sit with their materials at their desks. Review the exercise on science and nature, along with mastery of the alphabet; give each student an opportunity to describe a favorite item that he observed or collected on the field trip.
Later in the week, assign an additional project where students use construction paper to create pictures of their favorite object or item that they observed or collected, and display them on the journal page that bears the letter of that item. Ask the students to create a few more sheets with designs of their observations or collections, punch holes in the sheets, tie them together with string and display their artwork around the classroom as ongoing reminders of both their science lesson and the alphabet.