Help each child spell his or hear name on a big sheet of paper. Tell the students that when you show a letter, they have to look for the letter in their name and if they have it, they can cross it out with their marker. The first student to have all of their letters crossed out wins can say "bingo!" The student must then say the letters in their name back to the teacher.
Print and laminate sheets of paper with one letter of the alphabet on each one, brightly colored. Place the letters all around the room in various places. Tell the kids, "I'm looking for a B!" The students will scramble to find you the B and bring it back to you. Send them out for more letters and encourage them to think about what the specific letter looks like and what sounds it makes. Tell them to look at the alphabet border you likely have hanging somewhere in the class room to help them remember what it looks like.
Assign each child a different letter and provide child-friendly or parenting magazines and tell them to paste pictures of things that start with their assigned letter. The children will likely be stumped and need help with letters that have different sounds or that are similar to another letter such as C, K, Q and X. Continue the project daily until you have a bulletin board full of alphabet collages.
Have the children gather in a circle for this song that will teach them about the sounds that different letters of the alphabet makes. The song is song to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell." For the letter "D" you would sing, "D says Duh, D say Duh, every letter makes a sound, D says Duh" For a letter that can make two different sound such as A you would sing, "A says A and A says Ah, every letter makes a sound, A say Aaaa and Ahhh." The children will enjoy dragging out the sounds of those letters. For harder letters like X, make the sound that X makes when your tongue touches the roof of your mouth to say "X." Include the "Zy" sound that X can also make.