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Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

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We’re starting our week with a fun and easy letter U handprint craft along with loads of ideas for crafts, activities, and songs to reinforce what your child learns. Also, I have more alphabet letter fun on my page How to Homeschool Preschool.

U is the 21st letter of the alphabet and makes two common sounds. It makes the short U sound like in umbrella, under, and up, and the long U sound like in unicorn, uniform, and ukulele.

This week, we’ll explore the letter U through stories, crafts, songs, sensory play, snacks, and movement.

Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

Start with letter U sound and recognition.

Help your preschooler recognize the uppercase and lowercase letter U (Uu) and understand the two main sounds it makes.

This will set the stage for reading and writing success later on.

LETTER U THEMED BOOKS FOR KIDS

Next, look at these fun books.

4 Books for Learning About the Letter U

Reading together is a great way to reinforce sounds and vocabulary. Try some of these Letter U-themed books:

Next, look at this list of letter u words.

LIST OF SHORT U AND LONG U SOUND WORDS

Introduce and review short U and long U words. Make flashcards or use magnetic letters.

Short U Words:

  • Up
  • Under
  • Umbrella
  • Utensil
  • Ugly

Long U Words:

  • Universe
  • Unicorn
  • Uniform
  • Ukulele
  • Useful

In addition, here are some fun crafts and projects with the letter U.

LETTER U CRAFT PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES

  • Create this fun and cute Letter U Unicorn craft to reinforce what you are learning.
  • U is for U-Turn!: Draw a giant letter U on the driveway or with sidewalk chalk outside. Drive toy cars along the U shape like they’re making a “U-turn.”
  • Pour salt or colored sand in a tray and let your child use their finger or a paintbrush to write the uppercase and lowercase U like the one we made here in our R is for Rainbow letter unit.
  • Letter U Collage: Cut out pictures from magazines or print images of things that start with U (like unicorn, umbrella, ukulele, utensils) and glue them to a giant U you draw on poster board.
  • Up, Up, Up- Play an energy-boosting game where every time you say “Up!” your child jumps or stretches, and “Down!” they sit or squat.
  • Sing a song using motions like “Put your arms UP!” and “Go UNDER the table!” Add “U” words into the lyrics and actions.

MORE LETTER U ACTIVITIES

  • If you’re keeping an alphabet book or binder, have your child decorate a “U” page with drawings or stickers of U words to add to it.
  •  Make a magical unicorn headband. Use cardstock to cut a unicorn horn and ears. Let your child decorate with glitter and tape it to a headband.
  • Make an underwater ocean scene using blue paper, fish stickers, sandpaper, and seashells. Try this Underwater Papercraft, talk about how “under” begins with U.
  • U is for Utensils Snack Time. Let your child explore utensils and practice using a fork, spoon, or child-safe chopsticks. Prepare finger foods like fruit cubes, cheese chunks, yogurt, veggie and bites. Talk about how we use utensils to eat, and that the word “utensil” starts with U!
  • Under or Over Game-Use a toy, ball, or stuffed animal and place it under or over different furniture items. Ask “Is it under the table or over the chair?” Let your child move the object and call out the answers.
  • Underwater Bin-Create a sensory bin with water, blue gems, plastic sea animals, and cups or scoops. Let your child explore what’s under the water. Add a letter U foam cutout or laminated card to float in the bin. Here is an ocean sensory bin.
Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

Additionally, look at more activities to learn about letters in preschool.

MORE LETTER ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOL

Finally, look at this easy craft for the Letter U.

UMBRELLA EASY LETTER U CRAFT

You will need:

  • Construction paper/patterned cardstock
  • Pipe cleaner
  • Glue stick
  • scissors
  • A little hand
Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

First, demonstrate for your child how to bend the pipe cleaner into an umbrella handle shape.

Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

Trace both hands on construction paper using one or as many colors as you like, let your child cut out the traced handprints.

Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

Arrange the paper handprints in an umbrella shape on the top half of the paper.

Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

Let your child glue them into place.

Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

Tuck the pipe cleaner handle under the umbrella and glue it into place as well.

Write an upper and lowercase U in pencil for your child to trace over in marker for practice.

Umbrella Is For Easy Letter U Handprint Craft

Hang it up and enjoy their masterpiece.

Day 2 Unit Studies Topics 10 Days of Diving Into Unit Studies By Creating A Unit Study Together

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I have day 2 unit studies. Also, look at my page Best Homeschool Unit Studies. I’m doing 10 days of diving into unit studies by creating a unit study together.

So, the next big hurdle natural step after you adopt your definition of a unit study is determining a topic.

Sharing tips today on how I choose a topic, I hope you leave behind a bit of the fear that hems us in to using curriculum laid out by others and embrace the teacher in you. 

Day 2 Unit Studies Topics 10 Days of Diving Into Unit Studies By Creating A Unit Study Together

Yep, teacher mom is screaming to get out.  Okay—screaming with shaking knees is fine too.  Trekking this together, we’ll both have a step by step guide.

One of the very first resources I turn to when deciding a topic is to my sons. 

For me, this is the part of unit studies that makes it child-led. 

Engage your children and from the beginning you already have a captive audience.

AVOID CAPTURE & RELEASE TACTICS IN UNIT STUDIES

The first year I asked Mr. Senior 2013 who was in 3rd grade at the time and Mr. Awesome who was a 1st grader what topics interested them, I received some great ideas. 

Here are their answers: To blow up something (sounds like my kid), learn to weave or tie a knot, about bears, and grow crystals.

Sounds like a good plan to me.  The next step is to turn their idea into a topic that is teacher approved for the year.  When I mean teacher approved, it has to be something that we need as a family. 

Blowing up something told me that they needed more hands-on activities so we studied basic chemistry.  (We did blow up corks in our kitchen and the indentations on my ceiling are there to prove it.)

Tying a knot was tied (pun intended) into our reading and study of Carry on, Mr. Bowditch.  Studying about bears we covered in our Native American unit studies and we grew crystals one week for our science activity.

Native American Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

As you can see not every idea gets a full blown unit study, sometimes it is an idea that can be part of a unit study that you want covered too.  Asking my sons is always my beginning point.

Some years, I too have kids that say: “I don’t know.” 

So next, I turn to the seasons and times in our life at the present moment.  I like to teach in practical ways and learning becomes so much more meaningful when you are living and learning together.

CAPTURE NATURAL MOMENTS TO TURN TO UNIT STUDIES

Whether you choose to study a topic like snow flakes, the Winter Olympics, about the Arctic or how to survive in the cold if it’s the winter season or choose a topic for an event coming up in your life.

Moments that occur naturally have been some of our best learning moments in unit studies.

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This is actually the choice I am using to determine the topic for our next unit study which is a study of the Ocean.  With our move overseas, and because South America lends itself well to studying about the Ocean, that will be our next unit study topic.

Other factors I consider when choosing a unit study to coincide with our present family life is to determine what my kids know and don’t know, whether we want an expansive unit study that lasts weeks or even months or a mini-unit study.  

I always start first though with what we have previously studied so I can use that as a jump start into our next topic.

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Coral reef Lapbook @ Tina's Dynamic Homeschool Plus

We have covered some of the Animals of the Amazon  and about Coral Life so I can build on those topics when we start our Ocean Unit Study. 

Things like the Amazon River and the importance of coral will help them to recall some basic information.

Remember, unit studies is about connecting information together and it is not about being a study of disjointed topics or subjects. 

Try to use your previous studies of any topics to connect it with the current one or weave it together so that you help your children see connections.

UNIT STUDY TEXTBOOK TIPS –  WHAT?

It almost seems like an oxymoron to use unit study and textbooks in the same breath, but textbooks can be of practical use especially when you live in an area that requires stricter record keeping.

If that is the case, then use a text book or chapter from it to create a unit study which is approved for record keeping purposes.

Or, if you have purchased textbooks and feel more comfortable using it as you begin a unit study, it is a practical way to not waste what you have already purchased. 

Create a unit study from your textbooks on hand and bring the topics to life.

Basically a unit study from a textbook can become enrichment or it could be a lengthy and extensive unit study.  You decide.

TAP INTO OTHER TYPES OF UNIT STUDIES

Unit studies can also be prepared by

  • using a living book, based on a famous person,
  • on geography,
  • on a period in history including persons like explorers,
  • based on a family vacation,
  • current news events,
  • on an art topic,
  • on an animal,
  • on science and famous scientists,
  • on life skills like cooking and
  • choosing a career and on character traits like Konos uses.

Okay, I have my big general sweeping category of an Ocean Unit Study. 

But now, we need to trim this baby into something we can actually study for weeks.  I need to determine what is beneficial for my family.

If you have chosen a much narrower topic, like the study of a famous person or even the study of an animal or time period in history, you still need to narrow down exactly what benefits you want your family to get from it.

Sub-topics to the rescue.  I will share on Day 3 how to determine which sub-topics are important and which ones are not.

10 DAYS OF CREATING A UNIT STUDY TOGETHER

  1. Unit Studies Define & Redefine the Meaning – Day 1
  2. Tips For Choosing Unit Study Topics.- Day 2
  3. Selecting Superior Sub-Topics. Day 3
  4. Finalize Sub-topics – Day 4
  5. Creating Unit Study Objectives – Day 5
  6. Unit Study Resources that Stir the Imagination – Day 6
  7. Unit Study Activity Ideas – Day 7
  8. Creating a Unit Study Lesson Plan – Day 8
  9. Flow of Our Day with A Unit Study Schedule – Day 9
  10. Unit Study Beginnings – Day 10

Are you with me? What is your topic? Can you imagine if everyone shared their topic or ideas? That would be a huge benefit to each other.

I’m stoked to share my sub-topics with you next.

Hugs and love ya,

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Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

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Fun summer girl activities are a fun way to make memories and stretch the summer to its limit. Also, look at my post Free Summer Unit Study For Kids.

Summer is a magical time full of sunshine, long days, and endless possibilities for fun.

It’s the perfect season for girls to get creative, try new things, and spend quality time with friends or family- at home, at the park, or in the backyard.

Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

Without the structure of school days, kids often crave hands-on projects and fresh ways to stay engaged.

Even if you school year-round you’ll want to incorporate fun summer girl activities. That’s where DIY crafts and easy, low-cost activities come in handy.

I have packed this list with creative summer ideas that are simple, screen-free, and designed to spark imagination.

 From outdoor games to DIY spa days and crafty recycling projects, there’s something for every kind of girl – the one who loves getting messy, artistic, or just wants to cool off with water fun.

BOOKS ABOUT SUMMER FOR KIDS

13 Books About Summer to Read to Kids and For Kids to Read

Grab some of these fun books about summer to add to a summer unit study or to learn about the change in the season.

One standout project is our soda can candle craft. It is a unique way to turn trash into treasure while learning how to make your candles from scratch.

So grab your supplies and call up some friends. Dive into these fun summer activities that will leave everyone smiling and inspired!

FUN SUMMER GIRL ACTIVITIES

  • Get a bunch of friends together and have a Friendship Bracelet making party, all you need is embroidery floss, beads, and safety pins. Make matching sets for friends or swap bracelets to celebrate summer friendships.
  • Gather up some DIY beauty recipes like this Rose Face Mask and have a DIY spa day. Set up stations for homemade face masks, nail painting, foot soaks, and cucumber slices for your eyes. Add fun drinks like lemonade or fruit-infused water.
  • A great way to beat the summer heat is with a Frozen T-Shirt contest. Just soak and freeze t-shirts the night before. Race to see who can unfreeze and put theirs on first, it is hilarious and refreshing on a hot day!
  • Set up a screen or sheet, grab popcorn, and watch a feel-good movie under the stars. Here is a solid checklist and ideas for an outdoor movie night.  Don’t forget blankets and bug spray!
  • Feed your backyard friends with these precious hanging teacup bird feeders, if you don’t already have any on hand you can make a quick run to the thrift store and pick up a few, they don’t even need to match for a cute yard decoration that will bring birds to the yard.
  • For the outdoor-loving girl- Go on a walk, collect flowers and leaves,make this super easy flower press, and then use them to decorate journals or bookmarks.
  • Make upcycled crafts like an Upcycled T Shirt Library Tote. Use recycled materials to make other crafts like empty cans for planters,  cups and saucers for bird feeders, or make rag rugs from fabric scraps. Of course, our soda can candle falls right under this category too!
Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

And look at more fun summer activities.

SUMMER ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS

Finally, look at how to make this fun soda can candle.

HOW TO MAKE A SODA CAN CANDLE

Recycling soda cans into candles is a fun way to reuse materials while making something cute and functional.

You can customize them with your favorite scents and colors-they make a fabulous gift for friends and family.

You will need:

  • Clean, empty soda can
  • Can opener
  • Candle wax (soy, beeswax, or paraffin)
  • Candle wick
  • Fragrance oil (optional)
  • Wax dye or crayons for color (optional)
  • Old pan or microwave-safe container
  • Clothespin or chopstick to hold the wick
Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

First, carefully cut the top off your clean soda can using a good can opener; you want the blade cutting down into the can from the top rather than the side.

Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

Next, sand any sharp edges with sandpaper.

Use a dab of hot glue or super glue to attach the wick to the bottom center of the can. Let it set.

Then, you can use a wick tab to help keep it upright.

Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

Additionally, melt your wax in an old pan or in a microwave-safe container like this measuring cup, low and slow. If microwaving, heat for 60 seconds, stir, then heat in 30 second increments,stirring each time until it is melted completely.

Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

Also if you want to add color to make it look like the soda that was in the can, stir in wax dye or a crayon chunk. If you want a scented candle, add a few drops of fragrance oil once the wax is fully melted.

Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

We used some lemon and lime drops of essential oil in our sprite can to give it a similar smell.

Pour the melted wax slowly into the can, holding the wick upright. Leave about ½ inch from the top.

Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

Use a clothespin, skewer, or chopsticks laid across the can to keep the wick centered.

Fun Summer Girl Activities And How To Make A Soda Can Candle

Allow the candle to cool and harden completely — this takes about 1–2 hours.

 Trim the wick to ¼ inch.

Day 1 Unit Studies Define & Redefine the Meaning

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I have Day 1 unit studies. I’m explaining how to define and redefine the meaning until it fits your approach. Also, look at my page Best Homeschool Unit Studies. I’m doing 10 days of diving into unit studies by creating a unit study together.

Waiting with bated breath, I am beyond excited in sharing my first day of a series. It is 10 Days of Diving into Unit Studies. We’re creating a unit study together because it is about a subject that I am passionate about.

I have not always felt so dedicated to the method of teaching using unit studies. 

Day 1 Unit Studies Define & Redefine the Meaning

Like a lot of homeschoolers, I too fell victim to the rank and file sort of mind-set. I just picked out curriculum and started teaching my children. I had no idea of the approach.

It is not that I didn’t want to try something different, I was just afraid to mess my kids up for life.

Too, if I had a step by step guide, I think I would have felt more comfortable easing down the unit study trail.

DETERMINE YOUR UNIT STUDY DEFINITION

While I am confessing, I might as well tell you too that I felt like the unit study approach was for those “other” homeschoolers.  

The ones who were crafty and had to have crafts in their homes.  How could they possibly learn anything by “playing” all day?   Me?

I had just assume throw a bunch of papers at the kids for them to complete and then everybody would know for sure we were homeschooling.  Ouch.

Besides, the unit study approach didn’t mesh with my bent toward the classical approach of homeschooling.  Or so I thought at the time anyway.

Whatever you think of homeschoolers that use unit studies, one thing that is not debated is that it works for all ages of children. 

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10 Days of Diving Into Unit Studies by Creating a Unit Study Together

It is a classic way of teaching all of your children together.

I think the best way to illustrate the energizing affect of a unit study is for us to do one together as we plod along in this series.  What do you think?  You can create one that you’re interested in right alongside the one I will be designing.

Just a reminder too before I get too far off track here and that is most of the time I never do my blogging series one day right after the other. 

I have too much to say other things to talk about so I plod along and give you time to catch up.  Or like in this series, it will hopefully give you time to plan right alongside me.  No rush.

HOW TO ADOPT A DEFINITION THAT WORKS

There are many definitions for unit studies. 

The definition for a unit study is that there are no rules.  That may sound a bit cliché, but in order to embrace unit studies you have to let go of the thinking that we have-to do anything. 

  No, I’m not encouraging homeschool rebels, but I am encouraging you to avoid homeschooling robots.

From the beginning, adopting a definition of a unit study allays many fears or doubts because you will follow the definition that fits your family. 

How does this help you?  Because you can use as many or as little laid out subjects right alongside the ones you create. 

Unit studies are a lot like cooking for your family.  

Deciding which ingredients you buy prepackaged and which ones you make by hand is your choice.  

Knowing which ingredients your family loathes, which ingredients they love and which foods they need for their health are decisions only you can make too. 

Don’t make unit studies harder by adopting a rigid definition.

Adopting a definition that fits your family will be the determining factor if you lap one up or lag in enthusiasm to get started.

Here is my definition that I adopted.

Choosing any topic, book or discipline (subject) and building a number of study days, weeks, months or a year designed specifically for my family by incorporating a few or all academic areas of study on that one topic, book or discipline and sprinkling easy hands-on ideas throughout the course of our study.

How does your definition sound?

Clinging to the idea of a unit study approach is not easy if you don’t have a clear vision of how it will affect your family or your reasons for adding it to your school.

CHILD LED LEARNING

Instead of talking homeschoolers into investigating unit studies, I share what has worked for my family.  Too, I don’t talk folks into trying unit studies because it is not for everyone.

Unit studies can be a lot of work and time consuming.  I have never been afraid of working hard and especially if I knew that I would have titanic results. 

A unit study can be totally child-led or not. 

I am not an advocate of child-led learning in the absolute meaning of the definition because parents are essential to daily guiding the child to the basics of what he needs to learn.  

On the other hand, children do start learning the day they are born and unless we feed and follow their craving for learning we may be severely limiting their potential.

10 DAYS OF CREATING A UNIT STUDY TOGETHER

  1. Unit Studies Define & Redefine the Meaning – Day 1
  2. Tips For Choosing Unit Study Topics.- Day 2
  3. Selecting Superior Sub-Topics. Day 3
  4. Finalize Sub-topics – Day 4
  5. Creating Unit Study Objectives – Day 5
  6. Unit Study Resources that Stir the Imagination – Day 6
  7. Unit Study Activity Ideas – Day 7
  8. Creating a Unit Study Lesson Plan – Day 8
  9. Flow of Our Day with A Unit Study Schedule – Day 9
  10. Unit Study Beginnings – Day 10

Look at some ways a unit study has benefited my family.

SMALL IDEA BIG PAYOFF

  • Research skills by the child on a unit study subject fertilizes the ground for a life-long intellect.
  • Children are not passive learners waiting for the next chapter to be assigned to them.  Seizing the opportunities for learning because they have had a say in the topic or unit study solidifies in their mind the value of their education.  Instead of constantly struggling with our children to help them treasure the value of their education, they are now partners with us.

  • At the very core of unit studies are living books or resources that are used to stir the imagination.  Unlike most textbooks which can be designed to extract every enjoyment of pleasure from a topic, living books spark a fondness for continued learning.  Even if you are using a reference based source, the sheer enjoyment of capturing the interests of your children develops a love for learning from an early age.

UNIT STUDY BENEFITS

  • As children become masters of their own learning, the preconceived idea that children have to be limited in their knowledge to a grade level which is based on personal whims of public educators is not brought into our homeschool.  With standards across school, children normally spend a great amount of wasted and meaningless time covering the same subjects over and over again in each grade.  Take a look at the Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto.
  • As much as I had preferred my children just do worksheets, hands-on projects have shown to increase a child’s knowledge of that subject.  Much research has been written on the value of hands-on projects and yes crafts.
  • Your family can cover an in-depth study the first time around.  Avoid wasting time and reduce educational boredom by broadening the depth of the topic initially.

Have you decided yet? Will you dive into a homeschool unit study?

Follow along as we create a unit study together step by step.  Decide the topic you need for your family and I will share my topic next that I need to plan.

Over 30 Free Unit Studies and growing

Hugs and you know I love ya,

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Day 1 Unit Studies Define & Redefine the Meaning. I have Day 1 unit studies. I'm explaining how to define and redefine the meaning until it fits your approach. Also, look at my page Best Homeschool Unit Studies. I'm doing 10 days of diving into unit studies by creating a unit study together.Too, if I had a step by step guide, I think I would have felt more comfortable easing down the unit study trail.
Day 1 Unit Studies Define & Redefine the Meaning. I have Day 1 unit studies. I'm explaining how to define and redefine the meaning until it fits your approach. Also, look at my page Best Homeschool Unit Studies. I'm doing 10 days of diving into unit studies by creating a unit study together.Too, if I had a step by step guide, I think I would have felt more comfortable easing down the unit study trail.

Free Scotland Lapbook For Kids Who Love Hands-On Learning

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I have another fun and free lapbook. I have a Scotland lapbook for kids who love hands-on learning. Also, look at my page Homeschool Lapbooks – Powerful Tools For Mastery Learning for more lapbook ideas.

Whether your child is just beginning to explore world cultures or diving deep into European history, a lapbook offers a hands-on way to learn that’s both educational and fun.

Besides, you can fold many topics into your Scotland lapbook like geography, history, culture, music and legends.

Free Scotland Lapbook For Kids Who Love Hands-On Learning

From castles and kilts to the Loch Ness Monster and bagpipes, Scotland offers an exciting mix of myth and fact that is fun to learn about.

For example, there are ways to go deep with this lapbook or take as long as your children want to.

Include in history about William Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, and the Jacobite uprisings and in geography find Scottish cities, lochs, and mountain ranges.

And for art create tartan patterns or sketch castles. Too, language arts can include reading Scottish legends or write a short story set in Edinburgh.

MORE HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES ABOUT SCOTLAND

BOOKS ABOUT SCOTLAND FOR KIDS

Next, look at these books about Scotland.

6 Books About Scotland

Add books about Scotland to your homeschool unit study. I have books for multiple ages.

Next, look at more best homeschool lapbooks.

MORE LAPBOOKS

Free Scotland Lapbook For Kids Who Love Hands-On Learning

Next, look at what is included in this fun lapbook.

WHAT TOPICS OR MINBOOKS ARE IN THE SCOTLAND LAPBOOK

  • Explore Scotland
  • Quick Facts About Scotland
  • Scotland’s Famous Places
  • Things You’ll See in Scotland
  • Where in the World is Scotland

HOW TO GET THE FREE SCOTLAND LAPBOOK

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