Overview
The children will have a fuzz frenzy as they practice saying the /f/ sound in words such as fuzz, fold, flip, and frenzy.

Literacy Activities
Feel the fuzz

• Read the story The Great Fuzz Frenzy by Janet Stevens (optional) and tell the children they will have their own fuzz frenzy.
  • Explain that frenzy means wild excitement.
• Have the children sit in a circle and each find a piece of fuzz from the folder with a flap (or container).
• Read the action cards with the children and let them perform each action:
  • Feel the fuzz (e.g., rub the fuzz on the face, feet, fingers, and forehead).
  • Let the fuzz fall (e.g., drop the fuzz on the ground).
  • Fold the fuzz (e.g., fold the fuzz in half).
  • Fit the fuzz in a fist (e.g., hold the fuzz inside a fist).
  • Flip the fuzz (e.g., flip the fuzz up into the air).
  • Let fuzz float (e.g., throw the fuzz into the air and watch it float to the ground).
• Have the children repeat alliterative phrases such as “/f/, /f/, feel the fuzz on your face. The fuzz feels fabulous on my face!” throughout the activity, emphasizing that words beginning with the /f/ sound start with the letter F.

Have a fuzz frenzy dance

• Play or hum fast music and hold up the “frenzy” sign. 
  • Explain that the children will dance around with their fuzz in a fast, excited way during the “frenzy” music.
• Play or hum slow music and hold up the “flow” sign. 
  • Explain that the children will dance with the fuzz in a slow, flowing way during the “flow” music.
• Hold up the “freeze” sign. 
  • Explain that when the music stops, they must freeze and remain frozen until the music begins again.
• Alternate playing or humming music while holding up the corresponding signs. Allow the children to dance in a fuzz frenzy, dance with flowing fuzz, and freeze when the music stops.

More Practice
Read target words

• Write a list of the words from the activity that begin with the letter F.
• Read the list with the children and have them circle the letter F in each word, emphasizing that the words all start with the /f/ sound.

Write the target letter

• Help the children write the uppercase letter F and lowercase letter f while they produce the /f/ sound.
• Have the children cut out their letters and attach them to the fuzz folder.