Beginning Sounds with Winter — Letter C

Say it, hear the start, match the letter C. The child looks over the winter things on this sheet and circles each one that begins with C's sound — cabin and coat. Because cabin 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 snow, a mitten and a scarf.

Listening for a word's first sound and matching it to a letter is foundational phonics — the link a child needs before sounding words out. Hunting the winter things for C rehearses it concretely: say each picture, hear the start, match the letter. With cabin and coat hiding among snow, a mitten and a scarf, the child compares many opening sounds in one sitting, and the connection between the C sound and its letter grows a little more automatic each time.

Once a child can pick the C sound out of a word like cabin, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the B-sound pictures in winter, or the E-sound pictures in winter. Every beginning-sounds worksheet and the full winter things 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.