Working on basic shapes and colors, we made Hh house crafts, and practiced writing an upper case H and a lower case h. Remember to always start your big upper case letters at the top! Some preschoolers added text to their work.
Write an upper case H:
Big line
Big line
Little line
Write a lower case h:
Dive down
Swim up and over
Down
We enjoyed making and wearing letter Hh heart headbands, and working in the letter Hh sensory box! We found many things that begin with Hh such as heart, horse, helicopter, and hippopotamus.
Hh is for Hanukkah! We read How Do Dinosaurs Say Happy Chanukkah? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague, Hanukkah: A Counting Book by Emily Sper, and Hanukkah Lights by David Martin. Using fine motor skills, and counting with one-to-one correspondence, we made sparkling menorahs complete with nine candles.
Hh is for Humpty Dumpty! We learned, and practiced the nursery rhyme to build language and cognitive development. Then, students worked scissor cutting fine motor skills, and cut out an oval to create Humpty Dumpty. Mem Fox, author of Reading Magic wrote, "Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they're four years old, they're usually among the best readers by the time they're eight." You can practice Humpty Dumpty at home by clicking on the link below.