The Mom I Want to Be

The Letter Y is an unreliable letter that acts as both a consonant and a vowel.  It makes a wide range of sounds including /y/ /e/ and /i/.

 

1. Present a capital and lower case Y to your child.  See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes.  Explain that it makes very different sounds from its name.  Give examples of Y words, such as yawn, yellow and yes.

 

2. Read Yertle the Turtle

 

3. Go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find Y words for the Y bag this week.  Look for yarn, yogurt, yam, yield sign, yo-yo, yak, yeast, yardstick,

 

4. Create a Y collage.  Have your child search through magazines for words that begin with Y to cut out and glue to paper for his alphabet book.

 

5.  Yarn Covered Y’s.  Provide a Y cut from yellow construction paper and small pieces of yarn.  Have your child glue the yarn to the Y.  Encourage her to completely cover the letter.  When dry, glue to 8½ x 11” paper and place in alphabet book. 

 

6. Provide a worksheet with a line of Ys to trace across the top and a blank spot below, a 6” square of black paper, different kinds of yellow paper (construction, patterned, textures, cellophane, etc), glue stick and markers.  Have your child glue the black square to the paper, and then cut out the yellow paper into different shapes.  Glue the shapes to the black square to make their yellow collage.

 

7. Other activities:  Have yogurt at snack time; make a list of yellow things; talk about what things are made from yarn, teach your child to yodel; go outside and have a yelling contest;  take a walk with a yardstick and measure things; make a yellow yarn octopus;