State and Model 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 the letter S on a whiteboard, name the letter, and have the children write the letter S in the air with their fingers.
• Read the book 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 and then allow the children to trace the letter S in the snow.
• Show the children the S Snowman graphic and have the children name the letter the snowman is holding.
• Bury the letter cards in the pretend snow on the tray, then let the children search for all of the cards.
• Help the children decide whether or not the letter on each card is an S or not.
  • If the letter is an S, have the children put it on the S Snowman.
  • If the letter is not an S, have them place it in the discard pile.
  • If a child misidentifies a letter, have him or her look at the S on the whiteboard and compare it to the letter he or she picked. 

Silly snowball S 

• Give the children the Large S page and several cotton balls.
• Tell the children to pretend that the cotton balls are snowballs.
• Let the children make a silly snowball S by gluing the pretend snowballs on the large S page.

More Practice
Write and identify the target letter

• Help the children write the letter S on a piece of paper.
• Set out the tray of pretend snow and lead the children in doing the following actions with their S:
  • Slip and slide in the snow
  • Skip in the snow
  • Sway in the snow
  • Spin in the snow
• Make a list of the words from the activity that begin with S (e.g., snow, slip, slide, skip, sway, spin) and have the children circle the letter s in the words.
• Allow the children to attach their S paper to the S snowman.