"C" Cat Cheetah Cub Adventure Starts Here
Moving Through the Alphabet with Alfie
After introducing the letter C to your class, enjoy the Alfie’s Letter C video!
Encourage the kids to stand and move to all the videos. Remember, research shows kids retain information better when they are up and moving. March in place, dance or follow along to the moves.
Movement
Get down low on all fours and imagine silently moving through the tall African grass. Hold still, and then, stand and charge as fast as you can. It’s called a cheetah charge and they are loads of fun to do again and again. If space is limited, you can pretend to run super-fast in place. Pick your knees up high and move your arms.
Thought Starters
Children can move around like cheetahs making friends, sounds and movements.
- How would it feel to be a cheetah?
- How would you move?
- Who would be your friends?
- What would you do for fun?
- What sounds would you make?
Brain Break
Watch this video about Cheetahs. Encourage kids to move an play along.
Introduction to Letters: See, Say, and Move
See the letter.
Color it.
Say the letter.
Move!
Animal Letter Wall Card
Print out the Animal Letter Wall Card for letter C. Its great if you can print it in color and even laminate it. Print the children’s matching letter C for them to trace and do the movement. The movement for letter C is running in place. The word is cat. The children glue their letter C card on their own personal Animal Letter Wall.
I Can Page
Every letter has a move and an animal. Sound the word cat while moving like a cheetah cat.
“I Can” pages that go along with Moving Through the Alphabet posters. Building confidence is an important tool to help navigate life and it begins in childhood. The “I Can” pages reinforce a child’s ability to accomplish of “Do” something.
Print Letter C every child to color, trace the letters, and do the move. Say the words, “I can run like that cat!” Say the letter, sound and word “cat” while
Print the children’s matching letter C for them to trace and do the movement. The movement for letter C is running in place. The word is cat. The children glue their letter C card on their own personal Animal Letter Wall.
Alfie Coloring Page
Pretend Play Page
Have children color all the letter Cs on the page
Cheetah Cat Mask
Color the cheetah cat mask. Help them cut out the mask if they need it, especially the eye holes. The children will incorporate the mask using their imaginations as they pretend to be cheetahs.
Color Card
Print out for every child on their page.
Letter C Phonics: Do, and Go Sound Search!
This Section is called Do and Go Sound Search. It involves “doing” an activity and “going” outside to explore whenever possible.
Letter C Activity Tree. This can be done in the classroom or at home. It’s a great way to involve parents with their children’s literacy learning. Print out the page for every child. Explain that every time they do an activity, they get to color the branch. Start with any branch. Read the activity, for example “5 minutes of climbing”. This does not have to take place on any equipment. It’s tons of fun to pretend to climb like a cat or a chipmunk–fast, slow, big, small, high, low. Turn up the music and emphasis the word with the movement. After 5 minutes of pretend or actual climbing have children color the branch.
Alfie’s letter page to color in class or send home for more letter recognition fun.
Two at a Time or Group Play: Cat Callers. Print a Cat Caller page for every child. Read the page. Practice the c sound and the word cat. Have children glue the page onto construction paper. Cut out the cats. Follow the directions on the page. Be sure to have children say the word cat after every species. Example, Lion cat, Leopard cat. All these animals are in the cat family.
Try a Ch-Ch-Ch Sound Dance. Sing song. Encourage children to make up their own creative imaginative dance.
Try writing a Ch Story
Weekly Word Wiggle-movement-based activity to do at home/school-
Sight Words: Read and Romp
This section is called Read and Romp. It involves reading stories, introducing more phonic activities, letter combinations, like “Ch” and site words. Read a sentence or story and romp (play energetically) along.
Cheetah Cub Catch part 1 & 2.
Print out a Cheetah Cub Catch page for every child. Print out the Cat Cub Teacher Tool as a teacher guide. Hold up the cat cub teacher tool. Say and practice the words. Read the first part of Cheetah Cub Catch page to the children. Ask the questions, “how many spots, how many cubs?” Have them say or write their answers on the page. Move on to the Romp part: Read it. Have children glue the page onto construction paper for more durability. Cut out the spots and head to the gym or outside for the “romp.” If children are struggling with cutting skills please use any object-blocks, balls etc. for the cheetah cubs.
Cheery Lost Her Spots. Print the Charge Cheery Cheetah for every child. Practice the /ch/ sound while children charge like Cheery and add colorful spots to their page.
Print out a color version and laminate “A Very Fast Cat” read aloud. This page may also be ordered from our website. Read the story and run outside like a very, fast cat.
Cheetah starts with Ch. Print this page for every child. This activity page may be combined with the cheetah mask.
Rhyme Time with Alfie. Singing nursery rhymes and reading Rhyme Time pages builds phonological awareness skills, especially the ability to recognize rhyming words, notice rhyming words and create rhyming words. Read the first sentence. Have children repeat it. Read second sentence, and so on. Act out the rhyme time: Divide children into the hat group-have them wear funny hats, the tiny cat group, the lion group, and the rat group. Say each sentence while kids act it out. The children don’t have to sit on each other when the big cat sits on the hat. Instead, have them create funny moves like sprawling out flat on stomachs. The big cats can put paws on the kids that are wearing hats.
Moving Story Station. Pick a poster for circle time. Pass out props and have children add to the story. Write it out. Have children retell it to each other.
Draw a picture of their version of the story.