The Mom I Want to Be

1. Present a capital and lower case U to your child.  See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes.  Explain that U is one of the letters that can make different sounds.  One sound it makes is the same as the name of the letter. Give examples of hard U words, such as useful, unicorn, and uniform.  See if she can figure out another sound the U makes.  Give examples of short U words like uncle, under and umbrella.

 

2. Read Ugh

 

3. Go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find items that start with U for the T bag this week.  You might find a unicorn, ukulele, underwear, umbrella, uniform, map of United States, UPS truck,  etc.  Pull out an object each day and ask if your child knows anything about it.  Create a list of the items, displayed where it can be seen.

 

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

 

5.  Umbrella U’s.  Provide a U cut out from construction paper taped to wax paper for easier handling and cleanup,  glue, and die cut umbrella shapes from various papers.  Encourage your child to Glue the umbrellas to her U.  When dry, glue to 8½ x 11” paper and place in alphabet cook.

 

6. Provide a worksheet with a line of U’s to trace across the top and a blank spot below, paper doll outline, underwear cut outs (from book, die cut, or free hand it), markers and glue sticks.  Encourage your child to decorate the underwear, glue it to the doll, glue the doll to the page, and then add details (such as face, etc).  They might have the doll holding an umbrella, or draw it under something.

 

7. Other activities:  Make an upside down cake; talk about people that wear uniforms.  Choose one and make your own mini unforms from paper – badge and hat for policeman, reflector headband for doctor, etc; bring out a circle of stuffed animals, and open an umbrella in the middle.  Have your child turn around, and place a stuffed toy under the umbrella.  See if he can guess who is missing.  Give clues as needed; cut out pictures of people in different uniforms and make a collage; talk about uncles; Make upside down art – Tape paper on the underside of the table and have the children draw while lying on their backs under the table;