phoneme: /c/
Transition Song: Colors by The Learning Station (See January Week 1 for video. We sing it without the music and have added pink=try to wink, and gray=say hooray).
Materials: laminated letter C, hot pad, frozen coldpacks
Vocabulary and Concepts: hot/cold, touch, feel, fingers, sink, refrigerator, microwave, snow, ice, pizza, soup, ice cream.
Pre-literacy: talking about the letter C. We each held our letter C in different ways to see if it still looked like a letter C. No, we can't hold it up side down or the open end pointing up. We practiced drawing the letter C: "Put your finger at the top. Draw half a circle and then you stop." Top and Stop are words that rhyme - they sound the same. We remembered that the letter C can have 2 sounds: /k,s/. Words that have the letter C: Carrie, cold, cute (why, thank you!), cupcake, circle.
Group Activity: Today, I brought in one hot pad and 3 frozen coldpacks. I had the hot pad plugged in and warmed up before the children came to Large Group at the rug. I had the children come close and touch and/or feel the hot pad. They liked that is was so warm. Then I passed around the cold packs. They said it made their fingers cold. I had them touch their cold fingers to their faces. We talked about other things that were hot and cold: summer, winter, ice, snow, wind, fire. Then we walked around the room to look for things that might be hot or cold. The sink has hot and cold water. The refrigerator that holds our Snack Time drinks keeps them cold. The microwave makes things hot. The pizza in the kitchen could be hot (if it were real). Miss Carrie likes to eat cold pizza. Some of the children said they liked cold pizza, too.
We gathered back at the rug again and felt the hot pad and coldpacks again. We talked about building snowmen and how they melt when it is warm and no longer cold. We sang Once There Was A Snowman and grew tall-tall-tall and then small-small-small.
Look around your house and talk about what is hot and cold. This would be a great time to talk about what is too hot to touch (stove) and other safety issues. Also discuss that we wear coats, hats, and gloves to protect us from getting cold. Bath time is a good time to talk about hot/cold/warm water.
Point out hot and cold foods that your family likes to eat.
