Preschool Letter C

Welcome to Preschool Letter C! It’s our third week into our Preschool Letter of the Week and Filip is now quite familiar with the activities and worksheets we do. I like that he is able to do some of the activities independently, and I’m sure he likes that fact that I don’t have to explain too much anymore! 🙂 However, to ensure that he does not get bored, I will add new things every now and then.

Throughout this blog post, I have linked the resources I have used to either my Google Drive, my online store or another blog where I got that particular download. You can access the downloads by clicking on the photos or links. If you would like to download all the FREE printables I used for the Preschool Letter C week in one download CLICK HERE to get them from Kinder-Resources.com!

Preschool Letter C: Day 1

We started with our beginning sounds basket for the letter C. I filled a basket with toys and other items that I found around the house. We really emphasized the “c” (as in cat) sound at the beginning of each object. (To keep things simple, we are only learning initial letter sounds, so I didn’t teach him the soft “c” sound, as in city.)

Next, he finger traced the Letter C Alphabet Play Dough Mat. He knew straight away to look for the dot that indicates the starting place for writing the letter.  Then he traced over the letter with white board markers.

He continued with an uppercase and lowercase letter recognition worksheet. He selected a couple of bingo markers/dabbers to “dot paint” the letters with, and he worked independently on this.

I showed him the pre-writing practice sheets (From the Pond) and was about to ask whether he wanted to use glue and glitter again this week. But before I got a chance to say anything, he took out his “smelly textas” (fruit-scented, in other words) and got to work right away.

Filip asked for some more school work . I had this page printed out from a while ago, so I let him beautify it with some water colors. You can get a copy of it here!

We also did our Letter of the Week craft. Clouds for the uppercase c using cotton balls and a crab with 2 googly eyes for the lowercase c. If you’d like a template for uppercase and lowercase c, you can get it here.

Preschool Letter C: Day 2

We started Day 2 with a new activity. I don’t know the correct name for this activity, but we called it our “Pin Board”. I wrote a letter c on the pin board, and then Filip pushed the pins in through the tiny holes to form the letter. This activity is great for him as it gives him an opportunity to work on fine motor skills.

We swapped out our vocabulary cards this week and used my Beginning Sounds Scoops. (You can get letters A, B, C, D for free when you click the “Download Preview” at Kinder-Resources.com. I’ve also included cut and paste worksheets for them.) Filip liked working with these more than the vocabulary cards we used previously! That might be because they are much prettier but also because sorting out 3 cards per letter is more manageable.

We also did a beginning sounds worksheet. He put stickers on the pictures that started with C, and stamped the rest.

And then it came time for the flip book. He LOVES making these booklets so much, he even colors the pictures! I think he’s motivated to make them because he enjoys reading them to Sam after he comes home from work. The first photo is of him coloring away!

After it was assembled, we read it together a few times. Then he attempted to read it by himself and point to each word as he read. It was right here that I realised he needs to work on 1-to-1 correspondence. He pointed to every letter in the word that. We are not learning sight words, so I don’t mind if he doesn’t remember the words from the book. Our focus is on letter sounds at this point in time. But I will definitely have to figure out a fun way to teach him to point to each WORD when he is reading!

He played the Alphabet Find It game with Cami this week.

Preschool Letter C: Day 3

Day 3 started with some more finger tracing. Instead of our usual finger tracing over the play dough mat, I decided to try something new! I put too much some hair gel in a zip-lock bag with a lot bit of food coloring and squished it around until the gel was evenly colored. Then gave it to Filip to trace, using the play dough mat as guide under the zip-lock bag. His first words were: “Where’s the dot?” Oopsy-daisy! It was then I realised I had put in too much gel and too much food coloring. If you decided to do this at home, start out with small amounts because it’s easier to add in some more hair gel and food coloring if needed. Not so easy to take out though! Anyway, he had LOTS of fun with it once I smoothed the gel to one side to reveal the dot underneath 🙂

I had some free time during the week and I made up a set of Alphabet Counting Puzzle Mats. Here is the letter C puzzle:

Then he did an Alphabet Maze worksheet and actually followed the C-c-C-c pattern this time! Yay! Next was a beginning sounds cut and paste worksheet.

He did a Q-Tip Letter page, but this time I suggested he use these sticker gems instead of painting with a q-tip. Here is a photo of him carefully working away.

And here is his work for the week which he presented to Sam on Friday.

Download Preschool Letter C Free Printables

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Products we used to do our Preschool Letter C:

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Happy Teaching 🙂