The One with March Plans: Week 3

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Uu Dot Art:

Directions: print file. Allow child to decorate the uppercase and lowercase U. (You can use circle stickers, dot stampers, play dough pieces, or pom poms) You can read Dr Suess's ABC book and demonstrate which letter is big U and which one is little u. Introduce the fact that /u/ makes the "uh" sound*. 

*For vowels, always teach the short vowel sound first. (This makes the learning-to-read process easier!) This week, try to remember to demonstrate the short vowel sound with words like "umbrella and underwear" vs "unicorn".

Pentagon Soccer Ball

Directions: print pentagon file. Cut out the black pentagon pieces Make a soccer ball out of a paper plate! Show your child a picture of a soccer ball (or a real life soccer ball if you have one!) Observe that the black patches are pentagons!  Invite your child to glue down their pentagon patches onto a white paper plate in order to make a soccer ball! (Clearly,  the spacing won’t be right, but it will be pretty adorable!)

Green Paint Swatch Shamrocks

Directions: print shamrock outline file. (or draw out a shamrock on a piece of paper) Cut up lots of green paint swatches from a home improvement store.  Invite your child to glue the pieces down onto the shamrock. (Older toddlers can glue by themselves. If your child seems too young, you can always smear a glue stick all over the shape and allow them to just stick the pieces down) Describe the different shapes of green. “This one is dark green! This one is lime green!” Have fun decorating this, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

*note: If you don't end up getting paint swatches, you can always just use some green paper pieces!*

U Snack-Umbrella muffins

Directions: Together, make some muffins! My friend Candace showed me this awesome recipe for making green muffins with spinach! They are not too shabby and my kids LOVED them. You really can't taste the spinach at all! 

Once the muffin has cooled, remove the top of the muffin (does this remind anyone of a Seinfeld episode?). Poke the end of a bendy straw into the muffin top in order to make a tiny umbrella. Adorable! Remind your little one that  U makes the “uh” sound, as in umbrella!

Yellow + Blue = Green Water Walking Experiment

Directions: For this activity you need 3 clear cups, yellow and blue food coloring, and 2 paper towels. Line up 3 cups in a row. Fill the first cup up about halfway with yellow colored water. Fill the second cup about ¼ of the way with clear water. Fill the third cup up halfway with blue water.  Connect cup 1 and 2 with a paper towel. Connect cups 2 and 3 with a paper towel. Over time, water will draw out from the outer cups into the inner cups and create green water in the middle. Ask the kids what they predict will happen to the middle cup!

U Letter Recognition:

Directions: print file. Point the the Uu at the top left of the page and encourage them to find all of the other U's hiding on the umbrella. The child can mark them with crayons, markers, dot art stampers, or stickers. Remind them that u is for umbrella! :)

Rainbow Number Puzzles

Directions: I found these adorable, (and already made, hallelujah!) rainbow counting puzzles that would be perfect for Fridays when we work on numbers. Click on this link to get some fun puzzles! I went ahead and laminated mine so that we could play with them more often. Well, actually I'm just obsessed with laminating things...so....yeah.

Here are the printables for the week! As always, free!

Uu Dot Art

Pentagon Templates 

Shamrock Outline 

U Letter Recognition