The Mom I Want to Be

The Letter S is a very unreliable letter that often makes sounds other than the base /s/ sound:

     /s/ as in snake

     /z/ as in was

     /sh/ as in sheep  

 

1. Present a capital and lower case S to your child.  See if she knows the name of the letter and the sound it makes.  Give examples of S words, such as seaweed, salt and Sunday.  Pretend to be snakes and hiss the s-s-s-s-s sound.

 

2. Read Stone Soup; Do a Stone Soup Activity (or two!)

 

3. Go on a scavenger hunt around the house to find items that start with S for the S bag this week.  You might find a snake, scarf, sponge, star, sand, snail, stamp, sock, string, shoe, soap, spoon, etc.

 

4. Create an S collage.  Have your child search through magazines for S words, and glue them to paper for his alphabet book.

 

5.  Provide an S, cut out from scratch art paper.  Have your child use wooden sticks to make designs on thier S’s.  Glue to an 8½ x 11” piece of paper for their alphabet book.

 

6. Provide a worksheet with a line of S’s to trace across the top and a blank spot below, snow man hat pattern, 3 white circles each a little larger than the next, black construction paper, markers and glue sticks.  Invite your child to make a hat with the construction paper, and then create a snow man by gluing the circles and hat to the page.  Decorate with markers, adding face, scarf, and stick arms.

 

7. Other activities:  Make “Stone Soup”; pretend that Styrofoam balls are snow balls and toss around to music; Mix sand into paint and make sand paintings; talk about things that make us smile; Play Red Light, Green Light using a large stop sign; make stained glass windows with clear contact paper, black construction paper cut into thin strips and tissue paper;

 

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Square-shaped snacks
Star-shaped snacks
Strawberries
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