Letter Uu Activities for Kindergarten

Letter Uu Activities for Kindergarten: Letter Uu, you are so tricky for my little learners. You confuse their brains and mix up sounds. My kids always think you make the /y/ sound.

Letter Uu Activities for Kindergarten

 Poor Letter Uu… you have your own sound. The week we cover the tricky Letter Uu. I have a little fun with my students to make this letter u memorable, unforgettable, and therefore meaningful. Guess what I use to teach the letter u with?! Underwear! Classy right?! When you teach 5 year old, you got to get down and dirty sometimes.

Underwear Books

I love using the books Aliens Love Underpants to start our lively discussion on underpants. First of all, kids call their underthings lots of different names such as underpants, underwear, panties, and a few other things this book covers.

I also love this book because the book describes underwear in a fun and silly way, which encourages kids to do the same. After we read a fun book about underwear and point out the /u/ sound about a million times and point up to get a motion in with the sound.

Writing on Underwear

We write about underwear on a sheet that is underwear… so fun! First, we write about our underwear. I remind my students that whatever they write is what they have to draw, so make sure you keep that in mind.

Then we go over our writing with a black crayon. Next, we color our undies as we described them. Last, we cut them out. I took some rope and clothes pins to show my students what a clothesline {from Aliens Love Underpants} looks like since that is something many of them can’t connect to since they don’t see it.
It also made a cute undie display.

Here are a few funny underwear books you might want to check out.

Visual Discrimination

Now, you know I didn’t just talk and teach about underwear this week, we did a ton of meaningful activities with the letter Uu. Here are some of them. This activity is a letter U find.

My students LOVE these sheets.

We always do them on Monday. This gives me a great indicator of who can recognize the Letter U.

Number Sense Game for Letter Uu Activities for Kindergarten

We also played this FUN math umbrella game for building number sense. This is fun because students can sort number sense topics you have covered in the room.

Ten Frame Printables

A huge hit was this ten-frame sheet. We used paint to make the “raindrops” in the ten frames. Was it slightly messy. Yep… but kindergarten IS slightly a lot messy.

Here is what the basket looks like to prep for this activity. I provided them with baby wipes, a paint cup, and q-tips. This was their setup.

All of these activities for the Letter Uu {Print & Play Pack.} are in my bundle.  You can check out this pack here to grab some more ideas for the letter Uu.

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