Overview
The children will play a game with hotcakes (special pancakes) as they practice saying the /h/ sound in words that start with the letter H, such as hotcakes, holiday, and hand.

Literacy Activities
Play the Hot Holiday Hotcakes game

• Place the picture cards in a bowl or hat.
• Attach the letter cards to the beanbag and explain to the children that the letter H makes the /h/ sound in words such as hot.
• Tell the children they will pretend the beanbag is a hotcake.
• Have the children sit in a circle and teach them the Hot Holiday Hotcakes song to the tune of "London Bridge".
• Turn on the music for the song "London Bridge" and have the children pass the beanbag around the circle.
• Ask the children to say, “Hot!” as they pass the beanbag.
• When the music stops, have the child who is holding the beanbag choose a picture card from the bowl or hat.
• Have the children circle the letter H in the word on the picture card while saying the /h/ sound.
• Play the game several times as desired.

More Practice
Identify the target sound in words in a text

• Show the children the text for the song Hot Holiday Hotcakes.
• Have the children find and circle the uppercase letter H and lowercase h throughout the text, saying the /h/ sound each time they circle a letter.

Write the target letter

• Help the children write the uppercase letter H and lowercase h on the writing practice page.
• Have the children produce the /h/ sound while writing the letter H.
• Allow the children to draw a picture of an object that begins with the /h/ sound in the space below the letters (e.g., heart, hat, hand, house, hamburger, hotdog).