Letter Y

 

 

 

 

The Letter Y

 

"You are the light of the world." Matthew 5:14

 

-Yellow collage, cutting things out of magazines and toy catalogs

 

-played the Yes game: using flashcards, taped a flashcard on the child's back, he or she has to ask yes or no questions to guess what is on their back

 

-made Yellow stars, using stars cut from foam sheets and gold glitter

 

-ate Yogurt for a snack

 

-could also do a yellow yarn lacing project

 

 

 

 

 

Letter X

 

 

 

 

The Letter X

 

No verse for this letter :(

 

-play this fun video about skeletons and bones:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jpvuqj5nv6U

 

 

-X rays: printed this lifesize skeleton printout, from University of Texas Austin website:

http://www.eskeletons.org/pdf/000646791.pdf

or http://www.eskeletons.org/resources.html

1. Click on “Activities/Teaching Resources”
2. Click on “Life Size Printouts”
3. Choose “Juvenile Homo Sapiens”

assemble on the floor, tape together, measure the height, height of the child, and color it

-make our own Xrays: handprints using white paint on black construction paper

-eat Scooby snacks (bones_

-X Marks the Spot: really fun pirate abc book, cute rhyme wording, and they search for each letter on the page

-make water Xylophones- this was fun, too; using 4 or 5 glasses, fill with differing amounts of water, add food coloring, use metal and wooden utensils and objects to tap the sides of the glasses; forgot to take a photo, here's the idea from Preschool Alphabet Blog:

 

 

 



Letter W

 

 

The Letter W

 

"With Your help, we will win the battle." Ps 108:8

 

-make worms out of egg cartons, paint, used pip cleaners for antenna, googly eyes

 

-glued Wheel noodles on the lettrer W, also on car pictures that I printed on the computer

 

-used cookie cutters to cut shapes out of Watermelon

 

-Weather and Wind: added water to paint, put it in globs on paper, blew it with a straw, like the wind

 

-made spider Webs: painted white paper on black construction paper, dragging a piece of yarn through white paint, then dragging it across paper; after it dried, I cut the paper into the sape of a web

 

-Jonah and the Whale handwriting/coloring sheet: http://christianpreschoolprintables.com/Pages/BibleABC/Whale.html

 

-could also do projects with worms or weather

 

 



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Letter V

 

 

 

 

The Letter V

"I am the vine, you are the branches." John 15:5

-Letter V coloring sheet 

http://christianpreschoolprintables.com/BibleABC.html

-I am the Vine gluing page: vine out of pipe cleaner, hot glued leaves from the yard onto the vine

-made Vanilla ice cream (using this recipe, turned out a bit more like a milkshake, but it was still fun and the kids liked it- maybe we should have shaken it for longer?) 

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/homemade-ice-cream-in-a-bag-684806/

-played Vehicle bingo- we did it as we drove, but you could do it sitting, while watching out a window onto a busy street; I printed my vehicle Bingo sheet from Preschool Alphabet Blog: 

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1DMAw-TcwdqbHBSOXdEazhTRU9CT2hwR0o3dGpJUQ/edit

or

http://preschoolalphabet.blogspot.com/search/label/V

-could do any activities with vehicles; one idea is to make roads using masing tape on the carpet, they drive matchbox cars along the roads; could place the roads across rooms, down hallways, ect..