Beginning Sounds with Body Parts — Letter M

Say it, hear the start, match the letter M. The child looks over the body parts on this sheet and circles each one that begins with M's sound — mouth and muscles. Because mouth opens with that sound, it gets marked; pictures that begin another way do not. Catching the first sound of a spoken word and tying it to a letter is the heart of Kindergarten phonics, practised here across a scene of a hand, a foot and an ear.

Linking the letter M to the sound it makes is the bedrock of Kindergarten reading, and this hunt practises it directly: the child hears the first sound of mouth and decides it belongs to M. This is letter-SOUND work, not letter-shape recognition — a child has to know what M sounds like, then catch that sound at the start of words like mouth and muscles, long before they could read those words on their own.

A child who hears that mouth opens with the M sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the A-sound pictures in body parts, or the B-sound pictures in body parts. The full body parts collection and every beginning-sounds worksheet are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and every first sound a child catches builds toward sounding out whole words later.