phoneme: /h/
Transition Song: H-E-A-R-T by the Kiboomers
Materials: Laminated Letter H, pictures of /h/ words.
Vocabulary and basic concepts: hunt, hat, honey, heart, hippo, hair, hotdog, hug, horse, harmonica, hanger, fish hooks, hands, hammer, happy, Halloween, hummingbird, Humpty Dumpty, hero, house, horn, helicopter, hamburger, hide, Mr. Potato Head, What questions, Who questions, Where questions, First, Next, Last, prepositions.
Pre-literacy: This week we handed out our letter H and the children took over telling the teachers about it. They thought up of /h/ words, talked about how to draw the letter H using first, next, and last. We put the letters behind us, in front of us, on top of us, and under our knees.
This week Miss Carrie taped 24 /h/ word pictures around the room. First we went on a hunt to find the words. Everyone brought back two or three words. Miss Carrie taught us a new phrase. We pat our knees and clapped in a pattern while we said it. Pat-clap-pat-clap-pat-clap.
I have a picture
and it starts with /h-h-h-h-/.
When we said /h/, we blew into our hands so we could feel our breath as we said it.
Then each friend held up a picture and told the class what it was. Miss Carrie asked us what it was, who had one or had seen one before, and where could we find it (home, outside, park, etc). Then we put the picture on the wall. We said the phrase again while we pat-clap-pat-clap and the next friend would get to tell us about their picture. Some of us had not seen a hummingbird before. Miss Jen held one before and had a picture to show us.
No one knew what a harmonica was so Miss Carrie showed a video of someone playing a harmonica.
We talked about dressing up like a super hero, if we had ridden a horse before, who had a hat at their house or in their backpack, and who saw the hippos at the zoo. We had a lot of exposure to practicing our /h/ sound as well as new vocabulary words.
DO THIS AT HOME: Look around for things at home or during errands that have the /h/ sound. practice the /h/ sound by holding your hand in front of your mouth as you exaggerate the sound so you can feel your breath. Practice the sound in front of the bathroom mirror and let your breath fog up the mirror.
