Transition Song: H-E-A-R-T by the Kiboomers
For the song, it is sung like B-I-N-G-O. In preschool we are singing and clapping the H-E-A-R-T every single verse. We don't eliminate any of the letters.
Materials: Laminated Letter H, large baker potatoes and sweet potatoes
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: hot/cold, fast/slow, I do/I don't, pass, look, stop, negation, Who questions, problem solving.
Pre-literacy: Let's draw the letter H.
Start at the top and draw straight down saying Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha-Ha.
Go to the right and do the same saying Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey.
Now in the middle, left to right, saying Hee-Hee-Hee-Hee just like me.
What words can you think of that have the /h/ sound? Happy, help, hop, hot, hat.
Miss Carrie brought a bag to Large Group. In the bag were three BIG potatoes. Two of them were white potatoes and one was a sweet potato. We all had a chance to say if we liked potatoes and if we had ever tried sweet potatoes.
Then Miss Carrie taught us how to play the Hot Potato game. We sat in a circle and passed potatoes while we said:
Hot Potato, Hot Potato, Hot, Hot, Hot!
Hot Potato, Hot Potato, Hot, Hot, Hot!
Hot Potato, Hot Potato, Hot, Hot, Hot!
After a while, Miss Carrie would call out AAAAANNND STOP! We all stopped passing potatoes. Then Miss Carrie asked "Who has a potato?" Everyone holding a potato called out "I do!"
Miss Carrie asked "Who doesn't have a potato?" Everyone who didn't have a potato raised both hands in the air and shook them while calling out "I don't!"
We played this again and again. We chose if we were going to pass to the left or to the right. We figured out different ways to pass the potatoes: behind our backs, behind our heads, in front of our eyes in slow motion, or we turned around and faced away from the circle so we couldn't see who had the potatoes until we stopped. We problem solved when we noticed that all the potatoes were ending up in one person's lap.
DO THIS AT HOME: play a passing game, and stop to see who has the item. Look around the house for items that have the /h/ sound in their name.
