The Letter "G" is for: glasses, giant, geese, garbage, grapefruit, gingerbread, gossip and gardener

G stands for Goat, for Great and for Good.

       The "ship of the desert," the camel, gave its name to the third letter. Our name for this animal is" traceable back to the Phoenician "gimel" (ghe'mel) or "gamel" (gah'mel).The long neck and the peculiar angle of the neck in relation to the head could easily be represented. The Greeks made changes similar to those in other letters- they improved the shape and changed the name to "gamma." The Romans did not forget the curve and gave it both the hard and soft sounds (kay and gay). Later on, about the third century A. D., to distinguish the "g" sound from the "k" sound they added a little bar below the opening. Thus we get both C and G from the picture of the camel.

       Stevenson said that when he was a child the capital G always impressed him as a genii swooping down to drink out of a handsome cup. Kipling's story of the invention of the alphabet is filled with similar delightful stories of the picture origin of letter forms.

Our "G" Coloring Pages Thus Far:

1. "G is for grapefruit" two alphabet coloring pages: one for letter recognition and coloring and the other for coloring and tracing a sentence
2. "G is for gingerbread" alphabet coloring page plus letter/word and sentence tracing
3. "G is for gardener" alphabet coloring page, word, letter sentence recognition, upper and lower case Gg
4. "G is for gossip" alphabet coloring page
5. Color the things that are green because "G" is for green
6. Color the things that are grey because "G is for grey
7. "G is for glasses"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "glasses"
8. "G is for giant"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "giant"
9. "G is for game"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "game"
10. "G is for geese"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "geese"
11. "G is for the grain He ate" alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing Gg, color the disciples eating grain in a field, plus scripture, Bible coloring sheet
12. "G is for garbage can"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg
13. "G is for grin"alphabet coloring page, identify upper and lower case Gg, practice tracing letter Gg and word "grin"
    

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More About The Letter "G":

• The Illuminated Letter "G" at The Grimm Scriptorium
• G is for Goat Primer Page 
• "G is for Galileo" Primer Page