State and Model the Objective
Tell the children that they will let worms wiggle, wander and get wet, and that they will listen for words that begin with the /w/ sound, such as watch, worm, wiggle, and wait.
Literacy Activity
Watch wet worms wiggle

• Help the children create worms- here are a few ways:
  • Draw eyes and a smile with a marker on the tip of a finger to make a wiggly worm.
  • Twist pipe cleaners or fold a paper worm along its "segments."
  • Slide the paper wrapper from a straw to one end so it compacts and then slide it off the straw.
• Tell the children to wait and watch as your worm gets wet in warm water.
• State that you hear /w/ in "Wet worms wiggle and waggle in warm water."
• Let the children get their "wiggly worms" wet with warm water and watch the worms wiggle.

Let the wiggly worms do different things

• Give the children a paper or pipe cleaner worm and a little bit of warm water.
• Emphasize the /w/ sound as you invite the children to have their worms do the following:
  • Wake up the wiggly worm!
  • Wiggle and waggle the worm.
  • Wiggle the worm wildly.
  • Will the wiggly worm walk? (No, worms only wiggle.)
  • Will worms wiggle and waggle in the wind?
  • Will worms wiggle in warm water?

Ask questions and make comments about the wiggly worms

• Do you wish to watch wet worms wiggle as they wander?
• Can the worm wiggle and waggle and wander?
• Can the worm wiggle in the warm water?
• Can the wiggly worm wave?
• Do you wish to watch my wiggly worm wake up and wiggle?
• Do you like to wildly wiggle your wet worm?
• Do you let your wiggle worm wander in wet warm water?
• Does your wiggle worm wish for windy, winter weather?
• Worms do not wander out in winter.
• Worms wander when they are wet.
• Worms wiggle as they wander but don't walk as they wander.
• Wiggly worms wiggle in warm weather and don't want to wiggle and wander in winter.