C & R
Reading book "The Alphabet Book", learn about letter C, find a picture of animal beginning with C and learn about the animal caraval
Month 3 · Activity 4 · Letters
Instructions
- Read the book “ The Alphabet Book” by P.D. Eastman or Read/Listen here
- Show a child the letter C and review the sound C makes
- Draw letter C on an index card with a wide glue stick. Immediately shake sand, salt, or sugar on top of the glue. Shake excess off and look at the letter C
- Ask a child to circle 3 letter C’s with a red crayon in a newspaper or magazine
- Ask the child to think of an animal that begins with C (cow, camel, caribou, cat, etc.)
- Find a picture of an animal beginning with C and place into 3 ring binder behind the letter C ( Easy way to find pictures is to type “Free pictures of animals” in an internet search engine) Binder began Month 1 Activity 5
- Go to https://www.wordwarrior.net/caracal.html and learn about the animal caracal and watch a video showing a caracal leap ten feet off the ground
Simplify
Make the letter "C" using your left hand's thumb and first finger. Say a word that begins with "C"...cat, coin, call, etc.
Extend
Explain that an upper case or capital letter "C" and a lower case letter "c" is made the same way except for being different sizes. Practice making "C and c"
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
If you could ask a wild animal any question, what would you ask?
If you opened a store, what would you sell?
Materials
- Book “ The Alphabet Book” by P.D. Eastman or Read/Listen here (use full screen and pause as needed)
- index card
- wide glue stick (click here to purchase)
- salt/sugar/sand
- red crayon
- newspaper/magazine
- 3 ring binder (click here to purchase) with alphabetical dividers (click here to purchase) Began animal binder Month 1 Activity 5
Activity Resources
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