Letters UVW

 Adley's letter learning activites are reaching the end of the alphabet. Here are three letters we studied in the spring...

LETTER U

It was a little difficult finding a fitting U word for Adley's tactile letter book. We ended up choosing the word UP. Adley cut and pasted "up arrows" for her letter U.

Then, she decorated a umbrella pic with her watercolors.

We had to add raindrops, too, of course!

We talked about the word UNDER next. Adley climbed UNDERNEATH various objects around the house.

One more umbrella activity tied into a great letter lesson.

First, Adley spun the umbrella and then chose a lowercase letter from inside.

Then, she matched each lowercase letter with its uppercase version. I took out some of the easier letters to make the matching task a little quicker.

LETTER V

For letter V, Adley cut pictures of some vegetable favorites and pasted them on her tactile letter page.

Continuing with the vegetable theme, Adley painted a picture using only vegetables!

Then, we had fun with some vehicles. Here, every vehicle had a number taped to it. Adley's job was to park the vehicle in the row that contained that same number of stars.

This was a fairly easy activity, because the number of starts increased in order. Adley soon realized the pattern and stopped counting the stars! She still enjoyed driving the vehicles, though.

Next up was doing vehicle races down the stairs. Fun!

You can't talk about the letter V without looking at volcanos! We started by watching a couple of kids' youtube videos about volcanos. Then, Adley created her own volcano picture. 

We also experimented with baking soda & vinegar to simulate a volcano.

LETTER W

Adley started off this letter by doing her sound/cover worksheet. Any word that started with W, Adley marked with a green dot painter, and the non-W words she stamped with red. Using two different colors was all Adley's idea.

For her tactile letter book, Adley cut out letter W words from a magazine.

Then we did a weaving craft with ribbon. Adley had a great attention span for this activity. It turned out pretty cute!

After reading "The Watermelon Seed" book, Adley painted a watermelon, using a paper plate.

W is also for water, so we did a few water activities...

testing whether objects sink or float in water,

doing a water volume experiment...

and playing in water beads.

I was suprised at how many fun activities we could try out using these letters. Adley thought it was great!