Letter Hh
The letter-sound association we are studying this week is "H h" as in "hungry hippo." Here are some activities you can do with your child at home to reinforce his/her classroom experience.
1. Trace your child's hand or your hand on a piece of paper. Go on an "H h" letter hunt in newspapers or magazines. Cut them out and glue them on the hand, making the hand hold all the Hh's.
2. Have an "H h" hunt around the house. How many objects can your child find beginning with the "H h" sound? If possible, allow your child to tag the object with a card bearing the letter "H h" or the word that begins with "H h."
3. Which words in these sentences begin with the "H h" sound?
a. It is too hot to climb the hill.
b. Hand the hammer to the carpenter.
c. That horn has a happy sound.
d. Harry ate his hamburger before I ate mine.
4. Play a word guessing game: All answers should begin with the "H h " sound.
a. A rainy day makes me sad, a sunny day makes me _______. (happy)
b. I am thinking of an animal with four long legs and a mane.
Sometimes you saddle and ride him. He is a ________. (horse)
c. If I am pounding a nail, I will use a __________. (hammer)
d. When I am dressing, I always comb my __________. (hair)
5. Listen to the three words in these groups and tell which two begin with
the same sound. Another day ask which word begins with a different sound.
heel eye head
heat had ill
high add hive
eight hair hear
can hand hat
home pot happy
hold hall ear
ham all hill
half heart aim
6. Look through magazines to find pictures of things beginning like "hungry hippo." Glue them to a piece of paper and have your child label the pictures using invented spelling or guess how each word is spelled. It may help if an adult says each word clearly, then has the child repeat the word. Say the word a few times so your child can listen to each of the sounds at the beginning, middle and end. Your child should guess how the word is spelled and write the letters under each picture. Then an adult can spell each word. Show your child how close he/she came to spelling the words correctly.
7. Print then play Hamster Tic-Tac-Toe!
8. Make Fun Hats to Wear: 10 Hats in 10 Days Paper Plate Hat and more
9. Show your child how to make "H h" this way:
Start at the top and make a straight line to the bottom then make another line from top to bottom next to it. Cross the lines in the middle from left to right.
Songs and Poems
*If You're Happy and You Know It
Traditional Song
Sing Along to this song.
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!
If you're happy and you know it,
And you really want to show it,
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!
* "H" Makes Me Happy
H is for hair and H is for hand
(point to hair, then hand)
H is for heels on which we stand
(stand back on heels)
H is for houses here and there
(gesture to left, then to right)
H is for hats seen everywhere.
(stand hands on top of head)
H is for hearts and horses too,
(touch chest, then gallop in place)
H makes me happy, how about you?
(point to others)
* Dance to the Hokey Pokey
* Horsey, horsey don't you stop
Just let your feet go clippety-clop
Your tail goes swish and the wheels go round
Giddy up we're homeward bound
* Humpback
Humpback! What a whale!
(make a big "hump" in front of self)
Splashed the water with his tail!
(big clap)
"Here I go!" I heard him say.
(cup hands to mouth)
Down he went and swam away!
("Dive" with arms then make swimming motions)
* Happy's Hammers - Chant
Sing Along to this song.
(Sit on the floor with your legs straight out in front of you.)
(Pretend to hammer with your right hand.)
Happy works with one hammer, one hammer, one hammer,
Happy works with one hammer,
(Pretend to hammer with your right and left hands.)
Then he works with two...
Happy works with two hammers, two hammers, two hammers,
Happy works with two hammers,
(Pretend to hammer with your right and left hands and your right leg.)
Then he works with three...
Happy works with three hammers, three hammers, three hammers,
Happy works with three hammers,
(Pretend to hammer with your right and left hands and your right and left leg.)
Then he works with four...
Happy works with four hammers, four hammers, four hammers,
Happy works with four hammers,
(Pretend to hammer with your right and left hands and your right and left leg and move your head forward and back.)
Then he works with five...
Happy works with five hammers, five hammers, five hammers,
Happy works with five hammers,
(Say slowly) Then he goes to sleep. (Put palms together next to your head as if sleeping and get very quiet.)
* Hippety Hop - Action Poem
Hippety Hop came hopping by, (hands in front like paws and start hopping)
Hippety hippety hop. (hop)
He wiggled an ear and winked an eye. (hand up on head for ear and wink eye)
Hippety hippety hop. (hop)
He hopped in the meadow and he hopped on the hill. (jump left then right)
Hippety hippety hop. (hop)
For all I know he's hopping still. (shrug and hop)
Hippety hippety hop. (hop)
* Humpty Dumpty - Nursery Rhyme
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
*I've Got the Letter Hh
written by Mrs. Jones
Sing Along to this song.
I've got the letter Hh for hippo.
I've got the letter Hh for hippo.
I've got the letter Hh for hippo.
Hh goes Hh - Hh - Hh.
(Make the sound of Hh.)
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Hugs
Tune: Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I'll go eat worms
Everybody wants one,
Everybody needs one,
Everybody loves a hug!
Big hugs, little hugs, even itty bitty hugs.
Hugs for everyone!
