Prek Letter S

Welcome to the Letter S! We will be having fun with snowmen this week! Hope you enjoy!

Letter S Memory Verse:
Seek the Lord while He may be found. Isaiah 55:6
Submit yourselves, then to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7
For our verses and accompanying games/stories we use the following books:
ABC Memory Verses & My ABC Bible Verses

Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and put up the letter S on our Alphabet Tree! You can download my small alphabet letters here.

Song time:
Hide ‘Em in Your Heart Vol 1
Hide ‘Em In Your Heart Songs – Vol 2

Letter S Handwriting worksheet:

Letter S letter hunt story: I either have her circle the letter S’s that she finds, or mark them with a do-a-dot marker for fun! You could also use clear bingo chips or put them in page protectors to re-use as well!

Letter S Tracing: I laminate this and use with Expo Dry Erase Markers for pre-writing practice skills.

Snowman Scissor Skills! I’ve been wanting to do more scissor skills, so decided to add an activity for my alphabet packs! Just print and cut along the lines. I’ll be doing these for future letters and changing up the patterns as well.

Letter Ss Do-A-Dot Page: We use Do-a-Dot Art Markers with this!

Snowman Cut and Paste: A new activity I’m trying out, let me know what you think. Cut out the snowman and paste on a blue background, or better yet, paint a background! Add some cotton balls for snow!

Snowman Pattern Activity: Use the pieces to practice early patterning, a great pre-math skill!

** Note: To get all of the games in my Letter of the Week curriculum, please check out the full curriculum in my store!**

Snowman Letter Bead Lacing! I’ll put an index card in this box with the word ‘snowman’ so she knows the order of the letters. I got my lacing beads from Lakeshore Learning but these from Amazon look more fun to me: Bead Bazaar Lacing Kits – Alphabet Lacing Kit (maybe Christmas!)

Snowman Color Matching: Match the correct colored scarf to the hat for each snowman!

Capital/Lowercase Ss sorting: Simple, just sort the uppercase and lowercase letters using the attached snowmen.

Snowman Letter Match: I ended up making my own letters as I wanted lowercase and she didn’t have them. Click here to see the process of making the letter disks. If you’re looking for more challenge, use the uppercase card with the lowercase letter disks or visa versa, the download includes both upper and lowercase letter disks and activity cards!

(Please note, the original idea for this game came from Tot School and Carisa’s blog.)

Letter S Scavenger Hunt: fill your box with things that start with S! Ideas: sock, sandwhich, spoon, spider, sheep, shoe.

Snowman Size Sort: Sort these guys biggest to smallest, or visa versa. Discuss which is largest, smallest, medium!

Snowman Puzzle: Cut along the lines for a 6 piece fun puzzle.

Snowman Pre-writing Skills: I laminate then hole punch the upper left corner, and bind with a keyring. Then we use dry-erase to practice our pre-writing.

Snowman Number Practice: I laminate cut along the lines, then hole punch the upper left corner, and bind with a keyring. Then we use dry-erase to practice our numbers.

Snowman Magnet Page: I either use These Power Magnets from Amazon, or homemade pom-pom magnets I made from sticky backed circle magnets from Wal-mart:

Snowman Lacing Card: I laminate this one for sure, just for durability. Cut it out and hole punch every inch or so. Teach your child how to make patterns while lacing, for example go in-out-in-out, or always go up from the bottom, see the different lacing patterns you can make!

Snowman Graphing: I laminate then hole punch the upper left corner, and bind with a keyring. Then we use dry-erase to color in the graph bar. You could also use a manipulative like seeds, or you can use the snowflakes from the Snowman Number Cards game as well!

Snowman Coloring: You can color this, paint it, or we like to use Do-a-Dot Art Markers with this!

Snowman Number Cards: You can use these little guys in a couple ways; Have your child put them in numerical order, put mini-clothes pins on them (the correct number of pins based on the number on the card) or colored paperclips. I added little snowflake counters for you to use. She was tired of counting, so I had her put them in numerical order instead.

Snowflake Matching Game: Print 2 copies of this one, leave one whole, and cut the other into pieces and use as a matching game!

Snowman Building: These activities are great for spatial relations, patterns, logical reasoning, geometric concepts, & computation skills. I tried to make these regular m&m; colors so you can use the real thing if you want to! Click here to see more CREATIVE COLOR CUBE ACTIVITY CARDS!

Snowman Large Floor Numbers: These are 8x10ish and I cut them out and put them on the floor in mixed or numerical order. Then we play a game where I call out a number and she hops to it! Great for number recognition and a little exercise as well!

Finger Tracing Paint Bag: This is simple and fun, I filled a bag with tempura paint, you could also use cheap shaving cream. Then I’ll tape it to her desk for her to practice writing her S and s in using her finger. You could also skip the bag and put shaving cream on your counter if you’re feeling brave ;o) After we do the letters we do numbers, shapes, and whatever else we can think of! (Sorry, i used the picture from Letter D because I’m lazy!)

I found a new use for our Large Alphabet Lacing Cards! First we traced the letters with her finger, then we used our 1″ building blocks to make the letter S and s. She also picked 2 colors of blocks and did a pattern as she made her letters! We also use them for lacing practice, but this was a new variation since I’ve been making the shaped lacing cards too!

Letter Collage Worksheets: The download includes letters A-Z as well as a collage idea sheet. We use the collage items as objects to decorate our letters for an alphabet book. We also color, paint, and stamp them, we glued Straw(raffia) to this “S”. Since we use both upper and lowercase, I have provided both for you! Click here to download the Letter Collages:

• Uppercase A-Z Worksheets
• Lowercase a-z Worksheets

Kumon ABCs Uppercase Write & Wipe Flash Cards: Always turns into this…

11 x 11 Pin Geoboard: We use these to make letters, numbers, shapes etc! (Sorry I used the Letter M pic because I’m lazy, but you get the point :o)

Cottonball Snowman Craft: Using a sharpie, draw the outline of a snowman (3 circles sm, med, lg) on construction paper. Have kids glue cotton balls or marshmallows all over the circles to form snowman. Punch small circles and cut hat shape from black construction paper for eyes, buttons and hat. Cut small triangles from orange paper for the nose. Glue on pretzel sticks for arms! Sprinkle with glitter glue for snow!

Don’t Break the Ice game: I figured with the snowy theme, this game went along quite well, not to mention its super fun!

Letter Hunt: I created some Letter Hunt worksheets that you can download.

Foam Letter Builders: I cut the shapes from foam and let her use them to make the letters. You could also use my Magnetic Letter Builders as well!

Family Fun Night: Make shrimp tacos, (or soup and sandwiches) and watch:

Edible Snowballs: Click here for the recipe!

More Letter S ideas and Crafts:

• First School Snowman Dress Up Printout

• All Kids Network Winter Crafts
• Family Crafts
• DLTK Alpha Buddies
• Family Crafts: Snowman snowglobe
• Spell Out Loud
• The Snowy Day Lapbook

Note: To get all of the games in my Letter of the Week curriculum, please check out the full curriculum in my store!