Letter "U"

Theme: Letter "U"

Choosing Time: Little People Village, Foam Puzzle Blocks, & Drawing Under the Table Upside Down
Snack: Animal Crackers & Spring Marshmallows

Reading/Writing: We read our Spring Poem and learned how to spell "up."

Music & Movement:

1. "Hokey-Ukey" : Instead of the traditional Hokey-Pokey, we put our right hand UP...
   
2. "Here We Go Round the Umbrella" : We each took turns adding pictures of items that begin with "U" inside our umbrella. Then each child would run, skip, gallop, walk around the circle.
3. "How can you move Under the Umbrella?": I held out a closed umbrella for the children to take turns choosing a moving way to get under the umbrella. We finished by either having to slither on our tummies, or slide on our backs. :)
4. Make an upside down "U" with our bodies. This was a very popular activity! We had a lot of fun trying to make a perfect "U".

Lesson: Practiced writing the letter "U". We also had a fun time making the two "U" sounds. We also had a discussion about one "U" word: UGLY. We read The Ugly Duckling. We thought about how the duckling felt and how we would feel. We learned that sometimes things might be ugly on the outside, but beautiful on the inside. We need to look inside a person's heart. We all expressed to each other how we have beautiful hearts :)

Art: "Hiding Behind An Umbrella" Pictures

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Books:

• Lunch by Denise Fleming
• The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen
• 5 Ugly Monsters Jumping on the Bed by Ted Arnold