10.28.2010

Letter Hh

"H" topics...hats, hippos, horse, hearts

{Circle Time}
Calendar...Talk about the month and days of the week and put sticker on the day we are discussing.

Reading...days of the week book...The Week by Mary Lindeen
...theme books...My "h" Book by Jane Belk Moncure
Aunt Lucy Went to Buy a Hat by Alice Low
Twelve Hats for Lena by Karen Katz
George & Martha by James Marshall
One Hippo Hops by Jane Yolen
The Hiccuping Hippo by Keith Faulkner

Songs/Rhymes...The H says..., Humpty Dumpty

{Letter Craft}
H is for Hippo...{I came up with this one myself!}

{Activities}
Coloring...Letter Hh, Hippo coloring page

Letter Identification...used craft sticks to build the letter H
...find the letter worksheet
...do a dot letter printables

Spelling...We worked on spelling HAT this week. I wrote the word and drew a picture on our dry erase board. Each day I had Little Bit spell and sound out the word.
...tray with magnetic letters and cards with words {HAT, HEN, HID}. Little Bit placed the corresponding letters over the letters on the cards...while sounding out each letter.

Hats...I set out a basket of hats on the shelf and Little Bit had a blast trying them all on. She wanted me to take pics of her in all of them but here are just a few...

Hippo...We put together a hippo puppet, using a brown paper lunch sack and some printouts for the face and teeth.

Horse...H is for horse dot to dot. This was a great exercise for getting letters in the correct order and drawing lines! Little Bit loves dot to dots....so I keep incorporating them into our weekly plans!
...Horse rides, using her horse on a stick Little Bit would gallop around the house.

Hearts...A container of heart beads was on the shelf with some cord....and Little Bit used them to string necklaces.

Exercise...Hopping, hopscotch, hula hoop!

Computer time...Starfall {we worked in the ABC section with the letter H} and Fisher Price{they have some great learning games and online coloring pages}.
...Little Bit also loves to get in some computer time when we go the library. They have computers set up in the children's area with games, stories, etc. Her favorite one to do is Just Grandma & Me by Mercer Mayer. She puts on the headphones and watches/listens to the story!

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