{"id":3397,"date":"2008-05-03T13:19:44","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=3397"},"modified":"2009-11-29T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:46:32","slug":"3397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/?p=3397","title":{"rendered":"Learn the Alphabet Arts and Crafts – W"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Letter W is an unreliable letter.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes the “wuh” (voiced w sound) as in w<\/span><\/span><\/strong>alk, when found at the end of a word or combined with the letter, it often makes the voiceless w sound as in w<\/span><\/span><\/strong>hisper or cow<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.\u00c2\u00a0 At times, the wh combination makes the \/h\/ sound as in w<\/span><\/span><\/strong>ho. <\/span><\/p>\n

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W is sometimes silent as in tw<\/span><\/span><\/strong>o or w<\/span><\/span><\/strong>rench. <\/span><\/p>\n

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1. Present a capital and lower case W to your child.\u00c2\u00a0 See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes. \u00c2\u00a0It’s often hard to guess because the name has nothing to do with the sound it makes.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Give examples of W words, such as walrus, water, window or wet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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2. Read <\/span>Amos and Boris<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/a> (whales)<\/span><\/p>\n

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3. Go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find items that start with W for the\u00c2\u00a0W bag this week.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>You might find a whale, witch, watch, whistle, wood, water, wagon, watermelon, wool, wig, wheels, 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 W collage.\u00c2\u00a0 Have your child search through magazines for W words, and glue them to paper for his alphabet book.<\/span><\/p>\n

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5.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Wheel Painted W’s.\u00c2\u00a0 Provide a cut out W taped to wax paper for easy cleanup, seeveral old\u00c2\u00a0toys\u00c2\u00a0with wheels, preferably with different treads, paint on a\u00c2\u00a0paper plate.\u00c2\u00a0 Show your child how to roll thier\u00c2\u00a0car in the paint until the whole wheel has been touched with paint and then roll it over thier W, making interesting tracks.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Repeat if desired with a different vehicle \/ color.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>When dry, glue to 8\u00c2\u00bd x 11\u00e2\u20ac\u009d paper and place in alphabet book.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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6. Provide a worksheet with a line of W\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to trace across the top and a blank spot below, a whale pattern, a square of blue cellophane, glue sticks, and markers.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Decorate whale shapes.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span>Glue whale to sheet and then glue the corners of the cellophane over the whale to create water.<\/span><\/p>\n

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7. Other activities: \u00c2\u00a0<\/span>Have watermelon, eat waffles; pretend to be worms and wiggle on thie ground; use watercolors; talk about windows; make a stained glass window using clear contact paper and tissue paper; Imagine you have wings and fly around the room \u00e2\u20ac\u201c talk about where you would fly if you had wings; make white collages; play with anything with wheels;\u00c2\u00a0make paper plate watermelon collages:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Letter W is an unreliable letter.\u00c2\u00a0 It makes the “wuh” (voiced w sound) as in walk, when found at the end of a word or combined with the letter, it often makes the voiceless w sound as in whisper or cow.\u00c2\u00a0 At times, the wh combination makes the \/h\/ sound as in who. \u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32,33,58,16,15,12],"tags":[134,95,218,126,357],"class_list":["post-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-2-years","category-2-3-years","category-arts-and-crafts","category-basics-shapes","category-kindergarten","category-preschool","category-toddler","tag-alphabet","tag-art-project","tag-collage","tag-letter-w","tag-watermelon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","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=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3400,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/mom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}