{"id":2131,"date":"2007-01-27T20:56:52","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T03:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2009-11-28T18:42:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T01:42:40","slug":"learn-the-alphabet-arts-and-crafts-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=2131","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Alphabet Arts and Crafts – I"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Present a capital and lower case I to your child.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Ask if he knows the name of the letter.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Explain that I is one of the letters that makes different sounds in words.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>One is the same as the name of the letter (provide examples of the hard I sound, ice, idea, etc).\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>See if he can guess the other sound an I can make.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Offer examples of that sound \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Igloo, insect, inside, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. Read <\/span>I Wanna Iguana<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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3. Create an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u009d bag for the week.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Have a scavenger hunt around the house for items that start with the letter I, such as ice cube tray, ice cream cone, iron, insect, ice skate, iguana, ink, igloo, etc<\/span><\/p>\n

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4. Create an I collage.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Offer magazines for your child to search through and cut out pictures of words that start with I.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Glue them to a sheet of paper for their alphabet book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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5. Icy I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Provide a cut out letter I from white cardstock or construction paper, taped to a piece of waxed paper for easy cleanup.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Offer pre-frozen ice cubes that were made by adding liquid watercolors or food coloring to them, covering with foil, and then poking a popsicle stick through the foil to create a handle.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>To paint their I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, dip the cube in warm water, and drag over the surface of the letter.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>When dry, glue to paper and place in their alphabet book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6. Provide a worksheet with a line of I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to trace across the top and an empty space below, a triangle and an ice cream scoop shape cut from white paper, glue stick, markers and a small red circle sticker.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Have your child decorate his cone and scoop, glue them to the page, and then top with the sticker for a cherry.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>7. Other Activities:\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Ice Castles.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Freeze Multiple containers solid, take outside and unmold and stack into a castle shape.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Allow your child to drizzle food coloring and sprinkle on rock salt (which will melt the ice, bind the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bricks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and create interesting tunnels for the food coloring); Make ice cream in a bag, use rulers to measure things in inches, Sing Inch by Inch, Make inkblots<\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Present a capital and lower case I to your child.\u00c2\u00a0 Ask if he knows the name of the letter.\u00c2\u00a0 Explain that I is one of the letters that makes different sounds in words.\u00c2\u00a0 One is the same as the name of the letter (provide examples of the hard I sound, ice, idea, etc).\u00c2\u00a0 See […]<\/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":[134,95,218,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3334,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/3334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}