State the Objective
Tell the children that they will weave webs for /w/ things as they listen for words that start with the /w/ sound, such as watermelon, wagon, wand, and world. 

Literacy Activities
Weave things with /w/ into a web 

• Let a web and a W wave in the wind
• Show a web or picture of a web (see below) and make it wave in a pretend wind.
• State that the words web, wave, and weave begin with the /w/ sound.
• Comment and demonstrate that a web can go whoosh, wiggle, wobble, whirl, and whip in the wind.
• Have the children write a W and make their Ws wiggle, whirl, wiggle, wave, whip, and go whoosh in the wind.

Let a wasp get in a web

• Show a picture of a web or a web made with yarn or string on a paper plate.
• Show the picture of the wasp (see below) and explain how it could get caught in a web.

• Comment on animals that could not get caught in a web: a walrus, worm, whale, wolf, woodpecker, weasel, wolverine.

   

Weave things with /w/ into a web 

• Show the web made by criss-crossing yarn on a paper plate (see below). 
• Explain that the words weave and web both start with the /w/ sound. 
• Weave words that begin with /w/ into the web (see the pictures below)
  • If an object begins with the /w/ sound, have the child say, “I will weave a ___ (witch) into the W web!”.
  • If a picture does not begin with the /w/ sound, have the child say, “I won’t weave a ___ (dog) into my W web!”.