Letter Q
We make a friendship quilt at
the beginning of each school year for Open
House. I run off a simple
outline of boys and girls. Mailbox magazine
had a unit in their
September Idea book (kindergarten edition)...I think
that's right...the book
is at school...with these outlines. The
children color the pictures to
resemble themselves. I cut around the
outlines and glue them to a piece
of brightly colored typing paper. I
slide each picture into a separate
sheet protector. Then I lay them on
the floor in a quilt
formation. I usually make a boy, girl pattern
according to the color of
paper each drawing is on. When you have it
arranged like you want,
punch holes in each sheet along the top, side
(the one with out the holes
already in the sheet protector), and bottom
and tie together with short
pieces of brightly colored yarn (I use the
multi-colored yarn). If you
have an odd-number of children in your
room, think about making a block for
the middle of the quilt with your
name, school's name, and school year AND/OR
color another outline to
resemble you and add it to the quilt. Does
this make sense? I'll
clarify if you need further
instructions.
From: cooksey@network-one.com (chris
cooksey)
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We
made a class 'quilt' using squares of felt
Amanda Pre-K/pa
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Qq
Activities:
Alphabet Animal Sound
game
By Mrs. Alphabet: Letter Qq
Quiver like a quail on
the run
Quivering from a hunter's gun!
Hear the q sound in my name
Play
the q sound animal game!
Quincy
By Mrs.
Alphabet
Use this poem to identify and spot Q names, elicit new Q names,
and then
brainstorm other places to live that begin with a Q from your
class.
Quinn and Quentin live in Quincy with me
Quinta wants to visit
and see.
What other Q kids do you think live there
In marvelous Quincy
far far away from here?
Want to do a quaint unit on quilts visit
here:
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/1stGrade/pagequilt.html
Take an imaginary trip to a quarry and describe what you see and
then
illustrate your story.
Visit Quebec on your map or globe:
http://travel.yahoo.com/destinations/North_America/Countries/Canada/Cities/Quebec_City/
Yes; you can quote me visit here:
http://www.startingpage.com/html/quotations.html
For all you queen bees visit:
http://www.konaqueen.com/ How about this quick
recipe for fudgey brownies:
http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Cookies/3342.html
Take a taste test using Quaker Oatmeal and create a rating
scale or rubric
with your class. Or try making this original Quaker
oatmeal cookie recipe:
http://www.ichef.com/ichef-recipes/Cookies/53959.html
Use quarters as counters or for simple math problems:
estimating, counting,
adding, subtracting, or bingo markers.
Measure out a quart of liquid and discuss how many pints equal a
quart,how
many quarts equal a half gallon, and how many quarts equal a
gallon.
Brainstorm other items that are sold in quart
containers.
Use different size quartz for a math lesson
demonstrating: color, shape,
size, sorting, and counting.
Graph
how many children were born in Quebec.
On the Q.T. if you want to join
the Quakers Beanie Baby Club visit:
http://expage.com/page/quackersbeanieclub Taste
quinine water and talk about how it tastes and the similarities and
differences from water.
If I were a queen I would _________________,
but I wouldn't
__________________.
Create class Q charts and place
child's name at the end of his/her sentence:
Design a
questionnaire with your class.
Play the game 20 questions.
Find
quartz crystals and share with the class.
To simulate quicksand:
http://www.family.disney.go.com/Categories/Activities/Features/family_0401_01/dony/donyout_bklab/donyout238.html
Make an art project using Q-tips to paint and
dab.
Discuss a quarrel you had with a friend or a family
member.
List names that begin with Q and talk about what you see or
hear.
Check names in the class for q sounds. Make a graph of
children that have
the Q sound in their name.
Read a poem and have
children color code all the q words.
Try introducing this q word:
quince Ask the children what they notice
about the
word.
Whose family has the most Q names?
Use these words to
rhyme: quit quack quote queen
Tongue Twister: Quentin
questions quietly.
Make a predictable chart: At the quadrangle I
saw ____________.
Order your students in a line from Q to P.
Q
Books: The Quilt Story, Quiet Please, and Quick, Quiet, and
Feathered :
What Am I?
Q Author: Robert Quakenbush http://www.rquackenbush.com/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^wrote
with Q-tips and
quills; Dr. Seuss has a great poem about 2 ducks, one blue,
one black who do a
lot of quacking throughout the poem.
Louise
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KimzDC@aol.com
Activity
Q
Quiet questions and answers! Who can be quiet the longest? This is a
game
that has been played by parents and children for many years. In this
game
you are allowed to ask and answer questions. However, before you can ask
a
question or give an answer you must say "Q and U together say
qu." If you
forget, you lose a turn. There are no winners or losers in
this game, just
parents and children having a good time.
Q = quilt
scraps (fabric inch squares)
Q: Quickly, quietly, with a quiver - how
many ways can you move?
practice and the brainstorm
a chart of all the ways children
can think of to
move.
Queens
Cut crowns out of construction
paper for each of the children and have them
decorate with feathers, paint,
stickers, sequins, etc.
•Q-Tip Pictures
Have the children paint pictures using
Q-Tips.
•Quack
Quack
Have the children squat and waddle like ducks, flapping their wings.
•Quacker Pizzas
Give
each child a cracker and have them spoon a little pizza sauce or Ketchup
on
it, add a slice of pepperoni, some cheese and put in the oven for 3 to
5
minutes.
• Letter
Q- We folded a 12x18 sheet of pastel paper into 16 even sections,
then
let the kids use Q-tips and water color paints to create a "patch"
for
each square. The kids had a ball, and the "Quilts" turned
out to very unique.
•Quarter: Cut out the letter Q and take a quarter
stamp and stamp quarter
all over the Q. To make a stamp- Take a quarter
and hot glue on the end of a
round clothespin. Then stamp in the
ink. makes a nice print! Older the
quarter is- better the pic comes
out..
• Rubbings of
quarters: take a piece of typing paper and place over the
quarter and
rub it with a crayon! Use both sides of the
coin!
•Queen: Make
queens from construction paper. Give each child a square piece
of
paper. Show the children how to round the corners to make a circle
for the
queens face. Have the children turn a rectangle piece of
colored construction
paper sideways and snip V's out of the top to make a
crown. Have the children
cut stripes of construction paper into small
squares and use the small pieces
to make hair and facial features.
• Quiet game:
Play the "quiet game." Challenge the children to see how long
they can
remain quiet.
• Quilt: give each child a piece of graph paper and
have them color each
square to make a quilt.
• Food: Quiche, Quaker
oats
• We have the QUIET
Queen come to visit and she sometimes brings a quilt. We
have kids come
back after being in the "big" school and ask if the Quiet
queen
comes to visit. We have a veeeerrrrry quiet circle time. (great
for us
adults).
• or
how about Question Man/Woman. sort of like the riddler on
Batman.?
Question marks all over their clothes. Sounds like it may be
great for kids
with ""WH" who, what where, why and
when. witht he prompt ask a Question?. I
just thought of this as I was typing
and think I
'll have to do this for my language kids, like a jeopardy type
thing, Ask a
question of Question Woman.
•"Quilt", the letter Q
stand-by...
Have each child make his piece for the class quilt.
She used colored
construction paper decorated with crayons, paint,
etc. She "sewed" the
pieces together with
yarn. Her kids were old enough to use a hole-punch on
their
projects- the holes need to go all the way around the paper, as
close
or as far apart as you wish- but she did the holes one inch
apart. to help
with the spacing, she used a fine-tipped
marker to make the pattern for the
holes on each child's paper.
Now,
when you "sew" the pieces together, use a thick, thick yarn and a
large plastic needle so the kids can help here, too. lace the papers
together, and go around the edges of pieces that are on the outside,
too. her dimensions were: five papers across x six papers down.
(three classes altogether contributed). it is a huge quilt! our
director hung it in the main hallway!! beautiful!
• At the same time we were doing quilts
we were also talking about good
nutrition. I cut squares from an old
white sheet and gave one to each child.
(actually they made many prints and
we used them for other things also) We
used real vegetables to make painted
prints onto the squares. (lemons, apples,
gr. pepper, cauliflower, broccoli,
carrot circles and gr. beans) I sewed these
print squares together
alternating them with a colored material into long
strips, sewed the strips
together and added a color coordinated border to make
a quilt. I stitched the
names of all the children that helped in one corner
along with the
year. It has been hung on the wall ever since and the kids
love finding
their name and others names of children that might no longer be
with
me.
•Q-Tip
Pictures
Have the children paint pictures using Q-Tips.
•Quills----Take some feathers and
sharpen the tip so the children can use it
as a writing tool ----- like our
forefathers used them
•
Quiet----Quiet Day ----Make it where everybody whispers all day
long
• Quarts----
Everything in science area is measured in quarts---fill
quart
containers
•
Quest-----Have a day where you are in search for toys, answers,
colors,
etc.(questions)
•
Quick----Large motor activities are done quickly---running
games---Book
Quick as a Cricket----
• Quartet---Do things in groups of
fours
• Queasy---sick to
your stomach day ---use in combination with exam
•Quill pens - nail file/jar of ink/turkey feathers (I
hear these can be
purchased at craft stores. Why not try a turkey farm?
- there might be bugs
in these though (?)
use a nail file to file down
point of feather and get creative
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Q: QUARTER
SHOW:
Spin a quarter on a table.
What do you hear?
IDEAS:
At first the quarter spins silently. When
it begins to fall, it rattles
against the table faster and faster. The
pitch of the sound rises. When
the
quarter comes to rest flat on the
table, the sound stops.
Sandy
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Q ideas
quilt-- Give each child a piece of
construction paper. Have them draw
or decorate them anyway they wish.
Place all completed art work face
down on the floor and tape from the back to
form a cazy quilt.
read the book-- the Quilt Story
add a crown to
house area and let the children take turns being queen
for a day
sue
in new orleans srotolo
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Here Comes the Bride
/
The letters q and u are
inseparable! So why not unite Mr Q and Miss U at
a mock wedding ceremony?
Have the children help in planning the affair,
from selecting the wedding
party to preparing the food for the
reception. Stage a mock ceremony in
which Mr Q and Miss U exchange vows
such as the following: I, Mr Q take you,
Miss U to be my partner in
making words such as quiet,quail and questions.
I, Miss U promise to
stand by you Mr Q from this day forward in words like
quiz,quilt, and
quarter. And they lived happily ever after! I have a long
white dress
and veil and an old Peewee Herman halloween costume. We invite
the
parents to the wedding and follow with cake and punch. The letter
q is
the letter of the week usually the 1st or 2nd week of May so the
reception doubles as a Mothers Day affair.
Sandy D
The idea came from
Mailbox magazine
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Q activities
Queens with Crowns - Have the
children paint pictures of queens wearing
crowns with Q's on
them.
Questions - Teach the children what a question is. Let them
practice making
up questions. Make up a set of sentences in which some
are questions and
some are not. Give each child a question mark and a
period on little cards
you have prepared. When you ask a question,
have them hold up the question
mark; otherwise, they should hold up the
period.
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