Beginning Sounds with Camping Gear — Letter P

Listen for the first sound in pine tree. On this sheet the child is handed the letter P and finds every one of the camping gear whose name begins with its sound — pine tree, pinecone and picnic table all open with P. Saying each word, catching its opening sound, then tying that sound to the letter P is the Kindergarten letter-sound link this practises, set among a tent, a torch and a backpack.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like P's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — pine tree and the rest of the camping gear — and connect it to P. A scene of a tent, a torch and a backpack offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

Once a child can pick the P sound out of a word like pine tree, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the B-sound pictures in camping gear, or the C-sound pictures in camping gear. Every beginning-sounds worksheet and the full camping gear set are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and each first sound a child names makes the next letter that little bit quicker to catch.