The Letter N is a generally reliable letter.  It usually makes the “nnn” sound as in nice.  

 

 The Letter N is sometimes silent when it follows the letter m as in hymn

 

 

2. Read Noisy Nora

 

3. Go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find items that start with N for the N bag this week.  You might find needle, noodles, nightlight, nail, newspaper, necklace, nine, or a nut.

 

4. Create an N collage.  Have your child search through magazines for N words, and glue them to paper for his alphabet book.

 

5.  Newsprint N’s.  Provide a cut out N, taped to waxed paper for easy clean up, a newspaper, scissors and glue.  Help her cut out small pieces from the newspaper and then glue them to the letter.  Encourage her to overlap and fill the whole space.  When dry, and glue to a sheet of 8.5 x 11” paper for their alphabet book.

 

6. Provide a worksheet with a line of N’s to trace across the top and a blank spot below, shiny paper or small flat backed jewels, scissors, markers, tacky glue.  Help your child draw an oval to make a necklace shape in the area under his traced and written N’s.  Then he can cut out jewels / charms from paper and decorate his “chain”.

 

7. Other activities: Taste noodles, Make noodle necklaces, talk about night time, pound nails, use your noses to smell things, use leftover newspaper:  tear into long strips and glue into a nest shape on a piece of paper.  Cut out and decorate a nightengale for the nest; take a nature walk;