Letter U

Color: Blue

• Blue scavenger hunt for things around the house
  
• Wear blue!

Shape: Square

• Squares scavenger hunt
  
• Square collage--cut out various size square pictures, make a collage on blue construction paper.
  
• Square "Shape Shop" file folder game
  

Math:

• Use felt umbrella's with rain drops to count (1 raindrop on this umbrella, 2 raindrops on this umbrella, so on)
  

Nursery Rhyme:

• Rain Rain Go Away

Songs: (from www.preschooleducation.com)

Rain on my Umbrella added 8-7-97 Original Author Unknown
Sung to: "Frere Jacques"
Drip, drip, drop, drop,

Drip, drip, drop, drop,

Drip, drip, drop,Drip, drip, drop.

Rain on my Umbrella,Rain on my umbrella,

Never stops.

Drip, drip, drop.

Umbrellas Go Up and Down added 7-19-02 Original Author Unknown

Umbrellas go up,

Umbrellas go down, (Point up and down.)

When rain clouds are dark

All over the town.

One raindrop and two, (hold up on finger at a time)

Two raindrops and three,

My up and down umbrella

Is up over me. (fingertips touching over head.)

Four raindrops and five, (hold up one finger at a time)

Six raindrops and seven,

Raindrops are tumbling (raise arms and let fingers fall slowly)

Down from the heaven.

Drip, drip, drip, drip!

I am dry as can be,

My up and down umbrella

Is up over me (fingertips touching over head.)

Umbrellas Fingerplay added 3-23-00 Original Author Unknown--the song was incomplete as taken from the website, so I made up some of my own lyrics; (Use fingers or make umbrella puppets)

Five umbrellas stood by the back door,

The red one went outside, then there were four.

Four umbrellas pretty as can be,

The blue one went outside, then there were three.

Three umbrellas with nothing to do,

The green one went outside, then there was two.

Two umbrellas with no games to play,

The pink one went outside and shouted Hooray!

Just one umbrella alone in the hall,

The purple one went outside, and that was all!

Science:

• Water cycle: Rain comes down, sun heats it up, it goes back up into the clouds, cools down and falls again as rain (VERY simplified)
  

Craft:

• Making an umbrella. Take a paper towel and cut it into an umbrella shape. Then have the children paint by using water colors. ( food coloring and water works great for water colors) Then have a precut handle for the bottom of the umbrella and glue it on.
  
• Cut out umbrella's, have child paste on to a 9x12 blue construction paper. Have child brush on spots of glue around umbrella and give child some white rice to place of glue for rain
  

Social Studies:

• Unicorns (mythical one horned horses);
  
• Play pin the horn on the unicorn (drawn onto poster board with horns cut from paper).
  

Reading:

• A Great Day for Up by Dr.Seuss
  
• Uncle Rebus rhymes
  

Games:

• Open up a large umbrella and let the children throw in balls or bean bags.
  
• Caves (we have to do this again because he asks EVERY day, it doesn't have anything to do with U though...maybe our bears can encounter a Unicorn while they're forraging for berries lol). We're going to hunt berries, and be hibernating bears in caves. This one made a big impression, from what I hear he's even talked his granddaddy into playing this with him when they were visiting! Who knew!
  

Sensory:

• Water play (inside, in tubs on the kitchen floor...we're in a drought). If we weren't in a drought though....I'd do outside play (it's supposed to be pretty nice this week) with the hose and umbrella's.
  

Concept:

• Over/Under (try to get under things...like umbrella's!)
  

Snack:

• Blueberries;
• Square crackers with cheese;
• blue jello