All about C
Sound: /c/ as in cat. This is a short, quick sound. Not 'cuh', it is formed in the mouth with air and is unvoiced.
Key Words: cat, clown, cow, castle, crown, Canada, can, cap, class, candy, candle
Praise: Commendable! Classy! C is cool!
Tactile Association: Feel or do projects with cotton balls, crayons, cornmeal, bottle caps, corduroy, corrugated cardboard. Decorate a box with the letter C. Inside the box place items that start with C such as: camera, can, card, candle, corn, car, canoe, carrot, coat, comb, cookies, cotton, cat
Make Tactile Letters: Glue cotton balls, candy corn, or cornmeal to letter outlines. If clover is in season have your child pick some and glue them onto a large C.
Songs and Games:
Food: Cake, cookies, candy, caramel, carrots, cabbage, coconut, corn, cornmeal, cranberries, cucumber, crackers, cornbread, cantaloupe, cupcakes...
Art Ideas:
Animated Alphabet C colour sheet
Itchy's Alphabet c Colouring Sheet
Sound: /c/ as in cat. This is a short, quick sound. Not 'cuh', it is formed in the mouth with air and is unvoiced.
Key Words: cat, clown, cow, castle, crown, Canada, can, cap, class, candy, candle
Praise: Commendable! Classy! C is cool!
Tactile Association: Feel or do projects with cotton balls, crayons, cornmeal, bottle caps, corduroy, corrugated cardboard. Decorate a box with the letter C. Inside the box place items that start with C such as: camera, can, card, candle, corn, car, canoe, carrot, coat, comb, cookies, cotton, cat
Make Tactile Letters: Glue cotton balls, candy corn, or cornmeal to letter outlines. If clover is in season have your child pick some and glue them onto a large C.
Songs and Games:
- Play cards
- Do calisthenics
- Play catch
- Play kick the can outdoors
Food: Cake, cookies, candy, caramel, carrots, cabbage, coconut, corn, cornmeal, cranberries, cucumber, crackers, cornbread, cantaloupe, cupcakes...
- Crack open a coconut and eat it
- Make chocolate chip cookies and take a bite in it to make it look like a 'c'
- Eat corn on the cob
- Have a 'c' salad - carrots, cucumbers, cabbage, and cauliflower. Make cupcakes and decorate with a 'c' on top with icing. Add a candle
- Make a carrot cake
- Make cookies and cut out with cookie cutters, or shape into a 'c'
Art Ideas:
- Make a collage or cars or other 'c' pictures
- Colour a picture with crayons
- Find 'c' pictures in a catalogue
- Make caterpillars
- Use cookie cutters as tracers
- Make paper candles. Use toilet paper tubes for the candle. The children paint the tubes with paint and they then stuff red, orange, and yellow tissue paper in the top of the tubes for the flame
- Make a candy cane with pipe cleaners, one white, one red and twist the pipe cleaners to make a striped stem. Bend into a candy cane shape
- Model clay into the shape of a 'c'
Animated Alphabet C colour sheet
Itchy's Alphabet c Colouring Sheet