The Letter Bag

Olivia’s class learns a new letter each week. Along with learning words that start with the letter of the week, the teachers read stories that incorporate that letter and they send home a Letter Bag with one student each week. The student with the Letter Bag is asked to find things that start with that letter and bring them to school on Thursday to share with the class. Olivia’s had had the Letter Bag twice. The first week we needed to find things that started with the letter K. The second…I don’t remember.

Last week, their letter was Xx. The teacher was kind enough not to burden a single student with trying to find words that start with X, she instead invited all students to bring something that has X in it, such as fox or xylophone.

This week, their letter of the week is Uu. And it’s Olivia’s turn with the Letter Bag.

My first thought was umbrella. Our bright orange umbrella is already inside the Letter Bag, awaiting its trip to school.

Second thought, was, duh, unicorn! Boy do we have unicorns prancing around our house. One of them made its way into the letter bag along with the umbrella.

I asked Tom if we have a ukulele laying around that I’m not aware of. He laughed at me.

But wait!! I do have a music box that is probably supposed to be a small violin or something but a small label and a pen later, it’s officially a Ukulele. Go me!!

I kind of like projects like this. It is fun to get the whole family thinking and Olivia loves the attention she gets both at home and at school doing these things.

I couldn’t find an actual umpire to stuff into the bag so I found a picture of one and labeled it to avoid confusion.

We’re getting there. We still have two more evenings and three mornings to come up with things that start with the letter U.

But even with all that time ahead of us, I’m not going with Alyssa’s suggestion of putting a pair of underwear in the bag. I might be willing to take my kids to Walmart in their pajamas but I’m not willing to send underwear to school to be flashed about the kinderkids’ classroom.