{"id":2068,"date":"2007-01-23T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T19:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2009-11-28T18:36:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:36:47","slug":"learn-the-alphabet-arts-and-crafts-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=2068","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Alphabet Arts and Crafts – G"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Letter G is an unreliable letter.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes the “guh” (hard g – \/g\/ sound) as in g<\/span><\/strong><\/span>arden or dog<\/span><\/strong><\/span> or the “juh” (soft g – \/j\/ sound) as in g<\/span><\/span><\/strong>iraffe.<\/p>\n

When combined with the letter “d”, a grapheme is formed which sounds like \/j\/\u00c2\u00a0 (as in ledg<\/span><\/strong><\/span>er)<\/p>\n

G is part of the ‘gh’ digraph which can make the \/g\/ sound as in gh<\/strong><\/span>ost or the \/f\/ sound as in cough<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

G is part of the ‘ng’ digraph which can make the hard sound as in fing<\/span><\/strong>er, the soft sound as in chang<\/span><\/strong>e, or the combined sound (the most common) as in sing<\/span>.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong>The difference in these pronunciations is minor, but important (to see why, try pronouncing singer like you would finger).<\/p>\n

G is sometimes silent as in g<\/span><\/strong>nat or g<\/span><\/strong>naw.<\/p>\n

When G is followed by ‘e’ or ‘i’ it sometimes has the soft sound \/j\/ (as in gem or giraffe).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

1. Present a capitol and lower case G to your child.\u00c2\u00a0 See if she knows the name of the letter and the sounds it makes; explain that you are just going to talk about one sound today.\u00c2\u00a0 Give examples of G words, such as gift, good, glue, green and garden.\u00c2\u00a0 Ask questions with G answers and encourage her to answer with G-G-G Green (or whatever the word is)<\/p>\n

2. Read The Grouchy Ladybug<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Create a G bag for the week with items from around the house, such as gum balls, grapes, glasses, golf ball, goat, gorilla, gloves, green items, grass, ghost, guitar, etc<\/p>\n

4. Create a G collage.\u00c2\u00a0 Have your child search through magazines for G words, and glue them to paper for her alphabet book.<\/p>\n

5. Glittery G’s. Provide a cut out G, taped to a piece of waxed paper for easy cleanup.\u00c2\u00a0 Use glitter paint or a bit of poster paint mixed with glitter and a little glue.\u00c2\u00a0 Have her cover the entire G with paint.\u00c2\u00a0 Once dry, glue to a piece of paper and place in her alphabet book.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

6. Provide a worksheet (photocopy from book) with a line of G’s to trace across the top and an empty gumball machine below.\u00c2\u00a0 Offer markers, small circles cut from colored paper and glue (or round stickers).\u00c2\u00a0 Have her color the gumball machine and glue her circles to fill the globe.<\/p>\n

7. Other activies: Pretend to be grasshoppers and hop to music, make collages with green and gold items, look at a globe, taste grapes, create a paper garden, brainstorm a list of green items.<\/p>\n

Graham crackers
\nGoldfish
\nGrapes
\nGreen-colored snacks
\nGingerbread Men Cookies
\nGreen Tortilla Chips<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Letter G is an unreliable letter.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes the “guh” (hard g – \/g\/ sound) as in garden or dog or the “juh” (soft g – \/j\/ sound) as in giraffe. When combined with the letter “d”, a grapheme is formed which sounds like \/j\/\u00c2\u00a0 (as in ledger) G is part of the ‘gh’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,58,8,16,15],"tags":[95,218,241],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-3-years","category-arts-and-crafts","category-basics-shapes","category-idea","category-kindergarten","category-preschool","tag-art-project","tag-collage","tag-letter-g"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=2068"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2068\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}