Umbrella's Up!

We started our study of the letter Uu yesterday.  We learned that Uu has two sounds...the long vowel sound where it says its name as in the word "unicorn" and the short vowel sound as in the word "umbrella".  We focus on short vowel sounds in preschool.  

Today we had a fun day of talking about the letter Uu!  We started off our morning with a story by Dr. Seuss called "Great Day for Up".

Then we sang a fun umbrella song to reinforce the short vowel sound of the letter Uu.  I put my umbrella in the middle as we made a circle around it and we danced around it throwing in short vowel sound picture cards as we sang our song.  The song is to the tune of "The Mulberry Bush"....

"Let's dance around the umbrella,

the umbrella,

the umbrella,

let's dance around the umbrella,

and throw in "Uu" words.

I will throw in the _______, 

(whatever their picture card was on their turn- ex. upstairs)

the ______, 

the _____, 

I will throw in the _____,

in the umbrella."

They had so much fun with this game/song, that we played it twice!  There were some funny Uu words such as underpants and underwear and of course the kids laughed and laughed.  :)

During our craft time today we made our own umbrellas to hang up outside our classroom door.  Since we couldn't take a walk outside with our umbrellas we used the umbrellas we made and had fun in our classroom singing "Rain, Rain, Go Away" and "It's Raining, It's Pouring".  We also learned an "Umbrella Chant"...

"Umbrellas up,

Umbrellas down,

Umbrellas under the stairs,

upside down"