G is for Grapes

We practiced writing the letter Gg today on the chalkboard & we drew pictures of everything we could think of that began with the letter G.

Some of the items we thought of were grapes, ghost, gum, grandma & giraffe!

Outdoor Play: 

we took advantage of the fun games we still had from our Halloween Carnival & played Bean Bag toss for P.E. today!

We played a FUN tag game involving acting like Grasshoppers & chasing "crickets"!

Grape Worksheet. We colored the uppercase letter G's purple and the lowercase letter g's green & then practiced our handwriting!

At Home Activity:

G is a difficult letter, some might call it an "unreliable letter".

" It makes the "guh" (hard g - /g/ sound) as in garden or dog or the "juh" (soft g - /j/ sound) as in giraffe.

When combined with the letter "d", a grapheme is formed which sounds like /j/  (as in ledger)

G is part of the 'gh' digraph which can make the /g/ sound as in ghost or the /f/ sound as in cough.

G is part of the 'ng' digraph which can make the hard sound as in finger, the soft sound as in change.

G is sometimes silent as in gnat or gnaw."

Talk about the different sounds G can make this week and see if your children can point out things that start with the letter G.  At this age, they may only understand the hard g sound as in garden or dog, which is perfectly normal. If you explain that G can also sound like "juh" as in giraffe...they will often start naming words that begin with J, not understanding the difference. This will come in time and is tricky part of the English Language:) But the more you talk about the different sounds that certain letters make, the more they will understand!