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F is for Fruit Learning Buddies: Read the two phrases aloud. Have your child read with you. Trace the uppercase and lowercase letter F . Say the letter as you trace it. f is for fruit How many words or pictures can you find on this page that start with the F sound like the word fruit ?
Draw a line from each piece of fruit to the box where it belongs.
How many
?
fires
How many ?
frogs
Learning Buddies: Trace and say the number. Read the questions. Touch and count to find the answers.
How many
?
fish
Tell your child that eating right and exercising is important for health. Look through the newspaper for pictures of people exercising or doing some physical activity. With your child, imitate the activity you see in the pictures. Fitness Time
Look for newspaper pictures of fruit. Cut these out and glue them to a paper plate. Pretend to have a fruit picnic. Or, eat some real fruit after making your fruit plates. Talk to your child about the importance of eating some fruit every day. Fruit Picnic
Show your child the front page of the newspaper. Explain how you know it is the front page. For example, you could say, “The fold is always on the left side of the front page,” or, “The name of the newspaper is in big letters on the front page.” Front Page
With your child, look through the newspaper to find pictures of things that begin with the same sound as the letter F in fruit . Letter Identification
Point to the number 7 in the newspaper. Have your child say the number and, if it’s large enough, have your child trace the number. Math Play
Get newspaper photos and ask your child to say if the person pictured is facing forward or backward. For fun, your child can touch his/her face when the subject of the picture is facing forward and pat his/her back when the subject is facing away. Face Forward
With your child, find every uppercase letter F on one page of the newspaper. Draw a small circle around each. Then try to find a lowercase letter f for each uppercase letter F . Draw a line to connect each uppercase F to a lowercase f . Big F, Little f
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