{"id":3383,"date":"2007-02-18T12:23:37","date_gmt":"2007-02-18T19:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2009-11-29T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T19:57:08","slug":"learn-the-alphabet-arts-and-crafts-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=3383","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Alphabet Arts and Crafts – U"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Present a capital and lower case U to your child.\u00c2\u00a0 See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Explain that U is one of the letters that can make different sounds.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>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.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>See if she can figure out another sound the U makes.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Give examples of short U words like uncle, under and umbrella.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. Read <\/span>Ugh<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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3. Go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find items that start with U for the T bag this week.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>You might find a unicorn, ukulele, underwear, umbrella, uniform, map of United States, UPS truck, \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>etc.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Pull out an object each day and ask if your child knows anything about it.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Create a list of the items, displayed where it can be seen.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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5. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Umbrella U\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Provide a U cut out from construction paper taped to wax paper for easier handling and cleanup, \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>glue, and die cut umbrella shapes from various papers.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Encourage your child to Glue the umbrellas to her U.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>When dry, glue to 8\u00c2\u00bd x 11\u00e2\u20ac\u009d paper and place in alphabet cook.<\/span><\/p>\n

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6. Provide a worksheet with a line of U\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>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).\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>They might have the doll holding an umbrella, or draw it under something.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7. Other activities: \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Make an upside down cake; talk about people that wear uniforms.\u00c2\u00a0 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.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Have your child turn around, and place a stuffed toy under the umbrella.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>See if he can guess who is missing.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>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; <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Present a capital and lower case U to your child.\u00c2\u00a0 See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes. \u00c2\u00a0Explain that U is one of the letters that can make different sounds.\u00c2\u00a0 One sound it makes is the same as the name of the letter. Give examples of hard […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,33,58,16,15,12],"tags":[134,95,218,356],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383"}],"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=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3385,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}