Teaching Preschoolers the Letter S: Alphabet Recognition Activities
Friday, March 5th, 2010Preschool teachers and daycare providers can help children learn to recognize and write the letter S through fun activities that support clear learning objectives.
Learning Objectives
- The students will identify the letter S.
- The students make and recognize the S sound.
- The students will learn to trace and write upper and lower case Ss.
- The students will identify objects that begin with the letter S.
- The students will participate in Spider, Spider Finger Play.
- The students will make strawberry pops.
- The students will listen to books that feature the letter S.
Handwriting and Alphabet Recognition
Introduce the children to the letter S along with simple objects that begin with the letter S. Create a colorful letter S poster board that presents both the upper and lower case S. Include pictures of objects cut from magazines that begin with the letter D. For example: Squirrel, saw, skunk, star, snail, snow, sand, sugar, slipper, shoe, seashell, strawberry, scale, snake, shirt, spider, seal, and sandwich. (more…)




