Activities with the Letter G
Hi, everyone! Here are some fun low-tech activities for your family to try together at home. Perhaps you can include this list of activities in your morning routine, or in your afternoon routine following nap time. Please note that we are compiling family literacy ideas for each letter of the alphabet -meaning that you'll have 26 days worth of songs, yoga postures, tongue twisters and more to have fun with! Enjoy :)
Gratitude Acrostic Poetry
What are you grateful for?
Make a list of all the things for which you are grateful.
If you are stuck, use the letters in your name. Here is an example :
N – nutritious food and the people who are working hard to provide it to us
A – animals
M – my bed
E – essential workers
Garden Yoga
On your back, bring your knees into your chest and squeeze into a little ball, like a tiny seed
Plant seeds : squat and plant your garden
Water the garden : use your arms like an elephant truck or a water hose
Grow : reach up high towards the sky, stretch up, up, up
Reach high : on your tippy toes or from your chair
Wind : as your garden grows, sway in the wind
Sun : lie down on your back and IMAGINE you can feel the sun shining down on you
Grand Old Duke of York
Sing this fun action song - and try the actions shown in this video!
Oh, the Grand old duke of York,
He had ten thousand men,
He marched them to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again
And when they were up, they were up
And when they were down, they were down
And when they were only half way up, they were neither up nor down!
Tongue Twister
Three gray-green greedy geese,
Feeding on a weedy piece.
The piece was weedy,
And the geese were greedy.
Three gray-green greedy geese
The Goodbye Song
Sing along with this video - or make up your own goodbye rhymes!
Let's all say goodbye in a fun, silly way,
It's how we end our happy day!
Now stomp, stomp, stomp
And clap, clap, clap
Repeat after me in this goodbye rap :
See you later, alligator...Gotta truck, baby duck...
In a shake, rattlesnake...Out of here, reindeer...
Can't stay, blue jay...See you soon, raccoon...
Take care, polar bear...Be sweet, parakeet...
Bye bye, butterfly!
Let's all say goodbye in a fun, silly way,
It's how we end our happy day!
Blog post contributed by Kristina from the Alta Vista Branch and Sherri from the Rosemount Branch.
Interested in the other blog posts in this series? Click here to see activities for the rest of the alphabet!