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lizsantiago
Puerto Rico

ideas needed
 
        nice morning, afternoon, evening, night to all of you dear friends!
 
i am in need of ideas... the thing is that i have a friend who teaches 1st grade and asked me to help her find ideas of hands on activities to teach vocabulary with initial sound of the letter c.  i �ve thinking all morning but since i dont teach 1st grade i dont know what to tell her because the thing that comes to my mind i think would be hard for them. So if you know of something or you have any suggestions that i can use to make her a worksheet please let me know i will be in debt!!!

22 Mar 2012      





evafer
Spain

Hiya Liz,
 
I teach 1st grade children and I use finger phonics big books to teach them the sounds. Each sound has a motion asociated, for instance, letter c a flamenco dancer playing the castanets.
I tell them a story related to a family going to Spain on holidays. They visit Castles and dance flamenco with castanets. Sound k is the same but the motion isn�t, for that we point to the sky as looking at a kite. There is plenty of stuff on the internet to get ideas for printouts and teach them other words with those sounds: cat, candles, cake, camel, count, cool, comic, car...etc. They can also model letters with playdough. Or cook real or toy cookies and write letter c on the cookie or their letter name, later bake them in  their toy kitchen!!! Hope it�s helpful. Happy weekend!!

22 Mar 2012     



moravc
Czech Republic

use flashcards - eg: cat, cake, car, candy, cookie, cow, camel, calf, canary, caterpillar, can (of Coke), camp, captain, class, clothes, cap, coat, cup, cucumber, corn, carrot, cauliflower, crisp, colour, camera, canoe, card, circus, city, castle, clock, carousel, (cathedral), coach, cloud, club, carpet, case, calendar,
cook, copy, cry, cross, cut, climb, carry, close, catch, cope, clap,
clean, clear, crazy, cold, calm,
city, cycle, circle, ceiling, celery, centipede, cereal, circus, cinema,
child, chair, chicken, chip, chain, cheap, cheese, chest (treasure), chief, chocolate, chop, church, chalk, champion, cheetah, cherry, cheek, chin, chicken, chimney, chips, choose,
chameleon, chef,
Games - Cover 3/4 of one flashcard and ask in a funny way: "What is this?", students guess while you are gradually uncovering the FC. The best guesser can replace you and become a teacher for a few rounds. :-D
Missing FC - put 6-10 FC on the ground, students are sitting in a circle. Review the vocabulary. Cover all fc by a tablecloth and remove one FC. Ask which one is missing.
Dominoes.
Memory cards - Pair game (picture + word),
Giant boardgame designed with big A3 flashcards/posters on the floor of the classroom / at the backyard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZsdaB_9gIg&list=UUEjCyBoWP57QRkmFRz-aOGw&index=59&feature=plcp

23 Mar 2012     



Pinky Makus
Canada

Not sure if any of these would help.

http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphaletter/c.htm

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/childhood/theme_days/letter_day/letter_c/

http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/Handwriting%20Worksheets%20C.PDF

http://www.google.ca/search?q=Letter+C+worksheets&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=cJG&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=8eNrT5DtIaTYiAKO5IyeBQ&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=1464&bih=920

http://www.ehow.com/video_4403369_montessori-sand-letters-activity.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_8172132_make-letters-display-out-dough.html


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JO5DLmnMqU

http://www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/letter-c.html

http://myclass.peelschools.org/ele/KA/24088/Homework/Letter%20Cheer%20-%20%27C%27.jpg

http://myclass.peelschools.org/ele/KA/24088/Homework/Story%20for%20the%20Letter%20C%20-Carly%20Cow%20Can.jpg


23 Mar 2012     



Pinky Makus
Canada

http://www.amazon.com/Alpha-Tales-Letter-Copycats-Grades/dp/0439165261

 http://photographicdictionary.com/c

23 Mar 2012     



ironik
Australia

I use flashcards and they are very helpful. The procedure is like this:

Take up to ten flashcards, in this case, with the words which start with C.
Firstly ask them "what is this?" After you get the answer, make them repeat after you.
Next, tell them you �ll play a game. Class against you. You will turn the flashcards back and ask them to guess what it is. They have 3 shots. If they can know, they get 1 point. If they can �t know it in 3 shots, teacher gets 1 point. 

I used this game a lot in 1st grades, it became like a tradition everytime I teach new vocabulary Smile They just like to win over the teacher! This year, I had to substitute a kindergarten class and they got even more excited Thumbs Up 

Hope it is useful Wink

23 Mar 2012     



martinasvabova
Czech Republic

Chinese whisper game may be a good idea as well.

23 Mar 2012     



cindyfreksen
Denmark

Sesame street is always a good start - try this song:

The cookie monster song

It inspires smiles if nothing else Smile

23 Mar 2012     



ldthemagicman
United Kingdom

Dear Lizsantiago,
 
Here is a list of 52 nouns for children, beginning with �C �.
 

cabbage

cable

cactus

cake

calculator

calendar

camp

can

cannon

cap

caption

car

carpenter

cast

cat

cattle

cave

celery

cellar

cemetery

cent

channel

cherries

cherry

chicken

children

chin

circle

clam

class

cloth

clover

club

coach

coast

cobweb

coil

corn

cow

cracker

crate

crayon

cream

creator

creature

crib

crook

crow

crowd

crown

cub

cup

 
Les

23 Mar 2012     



ascincoquinas
Portugal

Dear Les!

What about uploading a ws with your (usual) excellent information!?

I am sure ESLPRINTABLES members will appreciate ....LolWink

Glad to see you back to the forumThumbs Up

23 Mar 2012     



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23 Mar 2012     

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