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G is for Grapes

If you remember, earlier in the week, we did this...

...which was awesome. Because anytime you can intermingle a great experience such as snacking on delicious grapes, with learning, it's bound to stick.

Now, I ran out of grapes by Day 3. But if I'd had more in the fridge, I would definitely have pulled them out again for a refresher (Cause, what's more refreshing than grapes?), but alas, I did not. And I did this Grape Craft anyway. Because it is fun and easy.

You simply print out the G is for Grapes Craft page, and slop some rather large glue globs in a few places. I didn't have purple beads, but some of the grapes we've been eating lately, have been more red or pink than purple, so we went with that.

Little Miss put her beads in clusters, like grapes would hang, and was very pleased with her finished project.

To follow up, we printed out the puzzle page from our Letter of the Week packet, here:

I colored the grapes in, to make it a little easier, and Little Miss cut out her pieces.

I helped a little, because her interest was waning. (I know it would have been more exciting if she had a few grapes to snack on while doing this--Aaargh!) But, we finished up our G is for Grapes day in flying purple colors.

And then I went and added "Grapes" to my Grocery list!

For more Letter G activities and ideas, check out: http://glimmercat.blogspot.com/2015/11/introducing-letter-g.html

And for all our other Letter G activities and crafts, check out our full packet here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-of-the-Week-G-1998411

Introducing Letter G

We began Letter G this week and it was a Ggggggreat beginning! Here's how we began...

In our Letter of the Week packet for G, we have a Song page. It is sung to the tune of "London Bridge" and tells our schtick for the letter G.

Glimmercat finds some grape juice (yum! don't all kiddos love grape juice?) and she drinks it down, making the sound of "guh-guh-guh".

After we sang our song, I gave Little Miss her Glimmercat G Path of Motion color page and we began by tracing the path of motion with fingers...

Then I asked her to fill in the Big G and Little G with Grapes, and that was like the best thing ever.

Teaching Tip: Use edible teaching tools whenever possible. It makes everything more fun!

Now, I realize she looks a little glum in this picture, but the reason is that she was not sure she needed to fill in both big G and little g before she started munching on them. She really thought she should only need to fill in Big G.

But when she got the okay to eat them all, it turned out okay: look at this coy little smile as she pulls them all in for munching.

Next, we went over our letter G words in our Matching Game. Little Miss kept calling the Gorilla a monkey, so I figured we needed some YouTube help for getting a closer look at Gorillas. We found this one and Little Miss giggled all the way through it. These Gorillas really hit her funny bone.

Then, we went back to affix our Matching Game pieces to their foamy backgrounds. She's getting really good at this.

After she finished this job, she asked for a marker. I handed her the marker container and saw she chose the green marker. This is not like her, and then I remembered that when she chose the foamy background color, I had told her, "Green is a great choice for this letter, because "Green" begins with the 'guh' sound. Green starts with G."

She had remembered and chose "Green" to color in G for that reason! (Excuse me while I thrill over this one! She's doing SO amazing!!! Okay, I'm done.)

She also tried out the Path of Motion on her own. And did pretty good at that, too.

All of the worksheets you see in this post are available in our Letter of the Week packet for G, here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-of-the-Week-G-1998411

Letter of the Week Packet for G

Goats, and grapes and gardens and gumball machines...what a lot of lovely things there are to do with the letter G. We focused on the hard sound of G for this group of projects, as you can see, and happily, the season worked out for us too, since we were planning our garden in early spring, at the same time as we began working with this letter.

I'm going to share about many of the activities we did, most of which are available in our Letter of the Week packet for G, right here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Letter-of-the-Week-G-1998411

Our little mnemonic for helping the kids remember the G sound, has to do with our Glimmercat character guzzling grape juice with this sound: guh-guh-guh!

She's cute, isn't she? The whole idea of Grapes as a word to connect with Letter G was wonderful. Because every kiddo loves grapes. And they were a perfect fit for our Letter G color sheet which echoes the image above, though in black and white:

In fact, we have all kinds of activities for grapes...look at our lesson plan for the Grape Day:

You can see we have two activities with grapes: one is a puzzle and the other is a little craft. But first, we started talking a bit about grapes.

We talked about how they grow on grape vines and how they can be trained to grow in what almost looks like a little tree or bush. And showing pictures of the grape clusters (like this above) helps too.

Then, we glued on our "grapes" (we used purple beads but small purple pom poms would also work great!) to our grape vines. And then, for a follow up we snacked on grapes! (Who wouldn't love that!)

What about G is for Goat?

This is a simple "Cut out the shapes and glue to a paper bag" kind of Puppet craft, and would go really well with reading the "Three Billy Goats Gruff".

Now this next one is not included in our packet, but since we were beginning our garden at about the same time as we were covering G, it just seemed great to squeeze it in. We made our Garden labels with small shells we glued on, and the kids helped me color the veggies.

And now for those Gumball Machines!

We have this sheet, above, included in our packet. It comes colored red or as a black and white copy.

But I also want to show you how to do these, just in case you're able to:

We made these fun little home-made gumball machines using two plastic champagne glasses (one upended on the other) with the stems cut off, plastic shot glass cups and regular sized small red paper cups.

The first thing you need to do is use a lit match to melt off the plastic stems of both of the champagne glasses (beware the toxins!). Once this is done, the little red cup can be trimmed to fit on top of one, and the two glasses's rims can be glued together (tacky glue works awesome!).

We put in the candy first though. Ironically, I had no gumballs: just JellyBellys. I don't think the kids minded too much.

Gumballs are a welcome addition, of course! For our GumBall Activity, pom poms would work, but we just used crayons.

I have to admit though: Our physical gumball machine craft was an even bigger hit. Something to do with the candy included...

Here's the Mini Book for Letter G, all completed:

I created this as an independent activity, for the end of the week. The four activities echo what has already been taught, and hopefully, children can do most of it on their own.

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G is for Grapes

Introducing Letter G

Letter of the Week Packet for G