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Phonics songs are an excellent tool for teaching letter sounds as children prepare for reading. Sing the songs slowly, focusing on the sound of each letter. Be careful not to add a vowel to the end of the /k/ sound (avoid saying /kuh/).
Phonics Song
Tune: Farmer in the Dell
C /c/ cat
C /c/ cat
/c/ /c/ /c/ /c/
C /c/ cat
Bible Version
Tune: Farmer in the Dell
C /c/ Cain
C /c/ Cain
Cain tried to lie to God
C /c/ Cain
- Use the end of a celery stick dipped into paint to paint little "c's" on the Cc Poster. While celery begins with "c", we want to focus on the hard /k/ sound not the soft /s/ sound that c makes.
Color the Letter C poster gray or light black. Then give the child a 1" strip of yellow construction paper to cut thin pieces. Glue the C's to make road lines. Drive a car on the letters in the correct formation.
Add stickers of items that start with a /k/ sound. Examples: cupcake, cookie, candy, cake, car, crown, cap, coin.
Give the child broken crayons to color the Letter C poster.
Color the Letter C poster a color to represent a cat. Add triangle ears, circle eyes and nose, and pipe cleaners as whiskers.
Add /k/ animal stickers to the Letter C poster. Examples: Cat, cow, camel. chimpanzee, cardinal, cobra, crocodile.
Color the Letter C poster orange. Glue shortened green pipe cleaners as tops to the carrots.
Color black dots on the Letter C poster for spots on a cow. Add eyes, horns, and a nose to finish the cow. Read along side Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin.
Place washable paint on a paper plate. Drive a hot wheel car through the paint and then on the Letter C poster. Focus on the /k/ sound of car as the child paints. When finished, take the car to the "carwash" (sink) and clean the paint off.
Fill the Letter C with dot markers, starting from the top and working your way around the curve. Once the ink is dry, draw a face on the first dot to create a caterpillar.
Glue cotton balls on the Letter C poster. For added fine motor practice, demonstrate to the child how to thin the cotton balls by pulling them apart.
Dip cotton balls in very light blue paint to stamp clouds on the Letter C poster.
- Use the end of a celery stick dipped into paint to paint little "c's" on the Cc Poster
- Cut the "Cc" out. Instruct the child to cut on the black lines.
- Paint on cardboard.
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On a black sheet of paper, draw the letter "C". Glue small squares of paper to the outline of the letter. Make a frame of squares as well if time and attention allows.
- Celery Science - Cut celery so the veins are open & cups of water with food coloring added; place the celery stalk into the water. Check daily to see if the celery is drinking up the water and the veins are becoming that color.
- Eat a bite out of a donut to change the donut from an "o" to a "c".
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My "C" Book 
The Cow Who Clucked
The Very Hungry Caterpillar 
Corduroy 
Hermie: A Common Caterpillar 
Caps for Sale 
Christmas Cookies 
Construction Countdown 
Carrot Seed
- Celery
- Cereal, Cheerios
- Cherries, Cantaloupe
- Chicken
- Cheese, Cheese stick, Cheeseburger
- Chips, Cheetos
- Chocolate, Chocolate Chips
