Today we studied the letter “C” by talking about carrots. We started our morning by reading The Carrot Seed
After our story we made these letter “C” carrots. I broke this activity up into two parts. First, I gave each child some orange paper and scissors. I asked them to cut it into pieces. This was great cutting practice. If they had had too much trouble they could have ripped the paper. Then they applied glue to a large letter “C” and covered it with their orange papers.
When we came back to this project the children glued their “C’s” to their papers. I then gave each child a small piece of green paper and asked them to cut some snips in it down to a line I had drawn. We curled the ends around a pencil and then glued it to the paper. I had seen the idea for making a letter “C” carrot from No Time For Flashcards, but modified her idea.
Of course, we had carrots for our snack time. 🙂
Our final carrot themed activity was to use carrots and paint to practice writing the letter “C”.
We had a great morning and will continue our study of the letter “C” on Wednesday.
