Learning about the letter S can be fun with a spaghetti party
I copied a large letter S onto a red piece of paper (for the red spaghetti sauce, of course).
At home, I over-cooked some spaghetti noodles until they were nice and sticky. I stored the noodles in a plastic baggy with some water.
I gave each of my Kindergarten students two spaghetti noodles and a copy of the letter S.
I asked them to form their spaghetti noodles into the shape of the letter S on the paper.
Once they were done, they had to try to make another letter S with their spaghetti on the back of the paper without being able to see the written letter.
After that, they used their spaghetti noodles to make pictures of objects that begin with the letter S (a snake, a sock, or a star for example).
The kids loved playing with their “sticky spaghetti,” and they had a hands-on activity that helped them learn how to recognize and write the letter S.
By: Ginger Terry ESL Teacher Lewisville, Texas
The Letter “S”
Draw a large “S” on a piece of construction paper. Have the students take stickers and go over the prewritten “S”. I also put “S is for Stickers” at the top of the page.
