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This week your child will learn the upper and lower case of the letters G and H through story. Your child will work phonetically with these letters through the use of rhymes and exercises designed to enable auditory discrimination. In addition, your child will practice printing on unlined paper.

Materials:

1. Main Lesson Book
   
2. Beeswax crayons- stick or block
   
3. A minimum of three small pieces of wood or toothpicks
   Optional: Hammer, saw and nails or wood glue

Steps:

1. One night this week, read “The Three Dwarves” at bedtime. The next morning ask your child to retell the story. Show him how the upper case and lower case letters may be drawn from the story. Ask your child to use crayons to draw the pictures and letters in his Main Lesson Book.

G	“The Three Dwarves” The goose is in the shape of the letter G.
g	A goose is dipping her head under the water.

2. One night this week, read “Mother Holle” at bedtime. The next morning ask your child to retell the story. Show your child how the upper case and lower case letters may be drawn from the story. Ask your child to use crayons to draw the pictures and letters in his or her Main Lesson Book.

H	“Mother Holle” The letter H is in the shape of Mother Holle’s house.
h	A little house with a tall chimney.

3. One morning this week, your child can make a chair in the shape of the lower case h. Use three small pieces of wood. Your child can saw the boards and hammer the nails. He could also use toothpicks and glue to make a series of such chairs in his book.

4. One morning this week, introduce the rhymes for G and H.

   G Three gray geese in a green field grazing;
   Gray were the geese and green was the grazing.

H Christopher Robin goes
Hoppity, hoppity,
Hoppity, hoppity, hop.
Whenever I tell him
Politely to stop it, he
Says he can’t possibly stop.
If he stopped hopping,
He couldn't go anywhere,
Poor little Christopher
Couldn’t go anywhere...
That’s why he always goes
Hoppity, hoppity,
Hoppity, Hoppity,
Hop.
5. One morning this week, ask your child to practice printing Gs and Hs on unlined paper.

6. Do these exercises every day this week. They help develop auditory discrimination.

Exercise

1. Identify location of sounds.
2. Identify high and low, loud and soft, metallic and wood, etc.
3. Discriminate between known sounds such as bells, knocks, rhythm instruments, animal sounds, crumpling of paper, etc.
4. Discriminate between sounds of letters; observe that your child can identify letters by name and that position of mouth is correct.
5. Ask your child to reproduce a variety of hand-clapping sequences.

Further Study:

If you wish, you may explore phonics further as there are many resources available. Keep in mind, however, that this is only one aspect of language integration and some children may not be adept phonetically, as it may not suit their particular learning style.

Enrichment:

As you are your child’s teacher, it may serve you well to research the various learning styles. As simply a matter of interest, it is fascinating to look at the varied ways that children learn!