For H week we started with Hearts, then did Hands (so we could make some hand turkeys since it’s November/Thanksgiving month), House, Hats, and Horses & Hippos. Here is a breakdown of what we did each day ---
Hearts: We had a lot of fun with Hearts. (1) We started H week off with the big letter H that he traced with his finger, then put heart stickers on it. (2) I printed out THIS twistynoodle page and he traced the heart in the correct color and wrote his H & h’s. (3) I made a lot of heart stickers with different patterns and prints on them. He matched them up and then counted how many of each there were and wrote that number on the red heart on the top. (4) I got this toy stethoscope on sale after Halloween and we talked about our hearts and how they beat & tried to listen to them. (5) Using THESE printouts, I laminated them and he colored the different size hearts using dry erase markers. (by the way, I TOTALLY recommend getting this laminator. I am obsessed with it!). (6) We practiced drawing hearts. (7) Then little G cut hearts. I drew the line on the paper and he cut it out. He cut LOTS! (8) Heart stamps with toilet paper rolls, very cute. (9) Then we made some chocolate hearts. I stocked up on candy melts when they were 50% off at Joanns, so we have plenty to use! When they were ready to eat, we ate them while reading Lilly's Chocolate Heart, by Kevin Henkes. Lots of fun stuff to do for Hearts!!
Hands: (1) We again started off with a big letter ‘H’ and a lowercase ‘h’ on a page and I cut some hand stickers which he stuck on the letters. Then he traced his own hand (very cute to watch him do it himself!). (2) I traced both of his hands and he counted them and wrote the numbers on each finger. When he needed help, I drew “the dots” as he says, for him to trace it. (3) We attempted some turkey handprints. I put some paint in the general shape of their hands and they slapped their hand in the paint and then on the paper. Little B did it great (with my help) but little G ended up just mixing all the paint together and made a big mess, as most boys do! (4) snack was a hand – the palm = ritz cracker, fingers = carrots, fingernails = almonds. (5) Hand countdown to Thanksgiving! I traced and cut our 24 of little G’s hands, then he wrote 1-24 on them. Each day we are putting a hand sticker on them to “cross them off” until it’s Thanksgiving! (6) I made a family hand turkey out of wood and they loved playing with the hand blocks!
Houses: (1) I drew general things that go on a house (roof, windows, door, bushes) and a block letter ‘h’. Little G colored all of them and I let him cut out the ‘h’ and I cut out the rest. He glued it on another page and glued all the accessories on the ‘h’ house. (2) We went on a walk and looked for our house number and our street name. It was a simple paper with blank squares for the numbers and lines to write the letters of our street name. Then we looked at other house numbers and street names. (3) This wasn’t anything to do with ‘house’ but it was a good ABC activity. I made this missing letters worksheet which I laminated and used a dry erase marker to write the ABC’s and left some blank. I did it with uppercase and lowercase letters and he filled in the missing letters. (4) Again I made some stickers, this time with the parts a house (roof, windows, door, etc). He made our neighborhood, well, part of it anyway!
Hats: (1) With HATS on, they boys colored some hats. I made this activity with a hat clipart and labeled them with a color, laminated them and used dry erase crayons (which are awesome by the way!). (2) I made more ‘hat’ pages and little G worked on those. They include rhyming, math, matching and drawing hats. If you want those pages, here you go –> these and this one. (3) Then we made some newspaper hats! I found this 'how to' on pinterest, they turned out pretty fun. (5) Lastly was snack time, we made frozen yogurt H’s & hats. I used squeezy bottles, yogurt (without fruit), wax paper, a pan to freeze them on and a paper to trace. Put the paper under the wax paper, give them the yogurt in the squeezy bottle and have them trace away. Freeze when they are done (the thicker the better).
Horses & Hippos: (1) I printed this Hippo face (after removing the color on it so little G could color it!). After he colored it, I cut it and he glued it. (2) I found some hippo youtube videos, which they loved watching! Hippos really do have HUGE mouths! (3) We switched and did horses and colored this twistynoodle page with uppercase and lowercase H’s. (4) I helped little G put this puzzle together, from the dollar store. He isn’t really into puzzles, but with my help he started to get the hang of it. (5) Lastly, I was a super awesome mom and made both my boys these horses. Don’t look too closely, my sewing skills aren’t up to par, but they loved them!
H WEEK!
