{"id":1945,"date":"2007-01-12T19:43:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T02:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2009-11-28T18:24:59","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:24:59","slug":"learn-the-alphabet-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Alphabet Arts the Crafts &#8211; D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Letter D is a generally reliable letter.\u00c2\u00a0 It usually makes the &#8220;duh&#8221; sound as in <span style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">d<\/span><\/strong><\/span>og or sa<span style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>d<\/strong><\/span><\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>D sometimes makes the \/t\/ sound (especially when it is the suffix &#8220;ed&#8221; as in kiss<span style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ed<\/span><\/strong><\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>When combined with another consonant, especially the letter &#8220;g&#8221;, a grapheme is formed which sounds like \/j\/\u00c2\u00a0 (as in le<span style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">dg<\/span><\/strong><\/span>er)<\/p>\n<p>1. Present a capital and lower case D to your child.<\/p>\n<p>2. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Do-Dinosaurs-Say-Goodnight\/dp\/0590316818\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1258406800&amp;sr=1-1\">How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. Create a D bag with items from around the house, such as a dinosaur, dog, drum, dice, dish, doll, diaper, doughnut, daisy, dump truck, etc<\/p>\n<p>4. Create a D collage, searching through magazines for words that start with the letter D to add to your alphabet book.<\/p>\n<p>5. Provide a large cut out &#8220;D&#8221;, taped to a sheet of waxed paper for easier cleanup.\u00c2\u00a0 Provide bingo dauber style paints and allow your child to cover the D with dots.\u00c2\u00a0 If daubers are not available, dip cotton balls into paint, or use water color paints with eyedroppers or sticker circles from the office supply section of your local store.\u00c2\u00a0 When dry, glue to an 8.5 x 11&#8243; piece of paper and add to your alphabet book.<\/p>\n<p>6. Provide a worksheet with D&#8217;s for tracing across the top, a cut out dinosaur body and head, a brass fastener, markers and a glue stick.\u00c2\u00a0 Punch a hole in the body and neck of the dinosaur and show your child how to connect them using the brass fastener.\u00c2\u00a0 Encourage your child to decorate the paper with the dinosaurs home (ground, caves, trees, etc) and to decorate the dinosaur.\u00c2\u00a0 Have your child glue the dinosaur body to the paper, reminding them not to glue the head so it can move up and down.<\/p>\n<p>7. Other activities:\u00c2\u00a0 Have a doughnut at snack time (or make them!) or\u00c2\u00a0play the drums<\/p>\n<p>Diamond-shaped snacks<br \/>\nDirt Cups For Kids <a href=\"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/20808\">Dirt Cups For Kids<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dinosaur Sandwiches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Letter D is a generally reliable letter.\u00c2\u00a0 It usually makes the &#8220;duh&#8221; sound as in dog or sad.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 D sometimes makes the \/t\/ sound (especially when it is the suffix &#8220;ed&#8221; as in kissed) When combined with another consonant, especially the letter &#8220;g&#8221;, a grapheme is formed which sounds like \/j\/\u00c2\u00a0 (as in ledger) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,58,16,15,9],"tags":[134,95,218,116,259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3330,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/3330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}