The Mom I Want to Be

The Letter C is an unreliable, redundant letter.  It either makes the /k/ sound as in cat or the /s/ sound as in celery.  It is considered redundant because it doesn’t make a unique sound.

The Letter C is part of the /ch/ digraph as in chicken

When C is followed by ‘e’ or ‘i’ it often has the soft sound (as in celery). 

 

1.Present capitol and lower case C and see if your child knows what letter it is.  Explain how, like an A, it has different sounds depending on the word it is in.  The focus of this activity is on just one sound — the hard /k/ sound.  Give examples of words, like cat, carrot and camera.

2. Read The Very Hungry Caterpillar

3. Create a C Bag with items from around the house like corn, can, coffee, crayon, crown, comb, carrot, cake, car, candle, camera, etc.

4. Create a C collage.  Search through magazines for words that start with the letter C and glue them to paper.

5. Provide a large cutout “C”, taped to waxed paper for easier cleanup.  Provide paint in shallow paper plates and dry ears of corn.  Show your child how to roll the corn in paint and then over the “C’ shape to make corn prints.  When dry, glue the C to a piece of paper for thier alphabet book. 

6. Provide a worksheet with C’s for tracing across the top.  Provide a rectangle of aluminum foil to fit below the C line, 6 white circles cut from construction paper, markers and a glue stick.  Have your child glue down the foil as a cookie sheet, decorate the cookies and then attach them to the foil.

7. Other Activities: Snack on carrots, Play “who took the cookie from the cookie jar”, make collages with different materials, use clothespins to sort small objects, talk about cars

Circle-shaped snacks
Carrots with ranch dip
Caterpillar Sandwiches Caterpillar Sandwiches
Dried cranberries
Fruit Critters with Peanut Butter Yogurt Dip Fruit Critters with Peanut Butter Yogurt Dip
Cool Chicken Cones Cool Chicken Cones
Banana Caterpillars