Alphabet: Letter Gg

Yes, my son's name is Grayson.  Yes, he knows how to spell his name.  No, he cannot identify the letter Gg. He tends to get the letters G, C and O confused, so it is time for us to focus on the letters in his name.  I will begin doing a letter of the week with him in the fall, but for now I want to teach him to identify and write the letters in his name.   

We started with doing a tactile letter Gg by gluing on glitter and sequins.  You can get this for free below!

  

We completed the letter Gg page for his Alphabet Handprint Book.  He used his fingerprints to make grapes on the page. 

We worked together on the 'All About the Letter Gg' workpage.   We read the keyword pictures together while I highlighted the letter Gg, then we dotted the letter Gg together.  Grayson was able to tell me whether each letter was a Gg or not, but he wanted to dot all the letters...silly boy!  Next, we wrote the letter Gg together while chanting "around and in" for the uppercase G and "around, up and hook" for the lowercase g. 

Finally, we did the 'Color by the Letter Gg' workpage.  We colored the crayons first and then 'coded' the letters on the page before coloring in each section.  He was able to differentiate between the upper- and lowercase Gg!  You can get all these resources at my TpT Store.

While working on all of the letter Gg activities we sang together...

Letter Factory Alphabet Sounds

Tune: The Farmer in the Dell

The Gg says /g/

The Gg says /g/

Every letter makes a sound.

The Gg says /g/

We also had to have some Tech Time to work on the letter Gg.  Grayson enjoyed watching Gus the Goat from the Frogstreet Press and playing on the Starfall App on Mommy's iPad!

I am so happy that Grayson can now confidently identify the letter Gg and tell me the sound is makes!  Next up, letter Rr!