Letter Y--Yoga, Yardstick, Yarn, Yodel, Yummy/Yucky, and more!

Today was all about Letter Y! 

At first I was a little worried about what we'd do, but the kids had a good time.

We started off with Circle Time, and then we introduced our letter for today.

Letter Y!

We sang our ABC phonic song, and stopped on Y for YAK!

 

Then we talked about a few other words that start wtih Y..

YELLOW

YARN

YOGURT

YARDSTICK

Were a few! 

 

The kids thought it was funny Olaf was joining us...It was a special chair so Nora would sit still and join us. :-)

Back to Y...

The kids picked YELLOW letters and had to think of a word that started with that letter.

They got really excited when they found the Y's.

We talked about the shape of Y, and how our bodies can make a Y.

The arms are the same length, and the body is nice and straight!

Then we all took a turn writing Y on our YELLOW paper.

 

Levi thought it was funny to draw a little head on our Y man..

Then we talked about... YARDSTICKS!!

We practiced our numbers, counting, and measuring.

We talked about the difference between rulers and yardsticks, and how yardsticks are a lot bigger!

They practiced counting, and thought it was so cool it went to 36 inches!

We measured all kinds of stuff..pillows, Ruby, and then we all measured our feet!

The kids loved it. 

Then we talked about YARN... 

We had our puppet friends Yolanda and Yetty... they had hair made of YARN!!

They had funny voices and told us what types of things you can make with yarn!

 

 Like a scarf!

Then we read a cute book Extra Yarn about a girl who made tons of sweaters and always had extra yarn. 

It was really fun!

Then we talked about YODELING and how it came from farmers in the Swiss alps!

We heard from Taylor Ware, who taught herself to yodel at age 7, and is awesome!

Then we had to jump over the YARN maze into the other room...

For some YOGA relaxation!!

The kids were so funny listening to the ocean music and breathing in and out.

We made lots of Y's as we exercised. 

And then went to the table for our YARN paint stamps to make a Y.

 

Then we played a YUMMY or YUCKY game...

Each child got a couple cups to see if they liked it or they thought it was yucky.

 

We had pickles, feta cheese, celery, raisins, golfish, cereal, applesauce, bananas, and tons more!

Surprisingly, they thought most everything was YUMMY!

Then it was snack time!!

Pretzels in Y shapes, and string cheese in Y shapes too!

Then we had lots of time to play!

Such a fun day!