State the Objective
Tell the children that they will play in pretend snow as they recognize and name the uppercase letter S and the lowercase letter s.

Literacy Activities
S Snowman

• Write and name the letters S and s.
• Have the children write the letters S and s in the air with their fingers.
• Have the children write an S on small pieces of paper.
• Read Snowmen All Year by Caralyn and Mark Buehner and have the children look for the letter S in the book (optional).
• Prepare a tray with pretend snow, then allow the children to trace the letter S in the snow.
• Show the children the S Snowman picture or drawing (see below) and have them name the letter the snowman is holding.
• Bury the small S cards in the pretend snow on the tray.
• Tell the children to search for all of the cards.
• When they find an S, have the children put it on the snowman while saying,  “Slide the S from the snow to the S snowman!”

Silly snowball S 

• Print the Large S page (see below) or help the children write a large S.
• Give the children several cotton balls and have them pretend that the cotton balls are snowballs.
• Let the children make a silly S by gluing the pretend snowballs on the large S. 

Write and identify the target letter

• Let each child hold a small S card.
• Set out the tray of pretend snow and lead the children in doing the various actions with their S:
  • Slip and slide in the snow
  • Skip in the snow
  • Sway in the snow
  • Spin in the snow
• List words from the activity that begin with S (e.g., snow, slip, slide, skip, sway, spin)
• Have the children circle the letter S in each word.
• Allow the children to attach their S paper to the S snowman.