It is important to work on phonemic awareness in kindergarten and first grade. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear and recognize sounds in words. Like breaking apart MMMM-AAAA-TTTT. Each day I spend few minutes working on building those skills with different activities.

Here is an activity that I did with my kindergarten class last week as a treat. This was a letter-sound correspondence activity. However, it can be used for CVC words, blends, and spelling words with word patterns.

I went to the store and bought cheap shaving cream. Warning: Just a little bit goes a long way. You will want them to wear art shirts.

We had fun writing letter sounds in the shaving cream. Each student got a chance to give a letter sound for us to write in the shaving cream.

Shaving cream actually does a great job cleaning tables. After the activity take paper towels and baby wipes or Clorox wipes to wipe up the shaving cream. It will leave your tables really clean.

Have fun!