****Guess what?! Letter of the Week lesson plans are getting an overhaul! I’m going through and updating all plans, adding new free worksheets and making sure all links are up to date! I’ve created a bunch of templates too for some of the crafts that’ll make your life a lot easier! Hang tight! It may take some time to get through all the letters, but it’s coming soon!! If you’re seeing this message, this post has already been updated!***
Eeeek! Our very first weekly lesson plan y’all! The teacher nerd in me is so excited to share this with you! The majority of my teaching career was spent teaching kindergarten and first, so I totally geek out over this!
Introducing our first week and plan! Here is the Letter A Lesson Plan. To download it, just click on the picture or click HERE.
In case you missed the first post, this is an entire blog series that provides free weekly letter of the week lesson plans. Each week I give you an entire week worth of activities, crafts, books and worksheets to help your child learn both their letters and sounds. I also created a set of flashcards that are the backbone of the entire week’s lesson. These flashcards help your child commit letters and the sounds they make to concrete memory, by associating an image with the letter. Be sure to sign up for our newsletter and grab these flashcards for free!
This week’s lessons are as follows:
Flashcards
Introduce the letter Aa flashcard. Remember to teacher your child to recite letter/picture/sound. So in this case, “A-alligator-/a/.” Review this daily.
Books
The books used this week are probably in your public library. If not I have included the links for the books below. Also note at the bottom of the Letter A lesson plan, I have listed additional books you can substitute or read in addition to the others. We usually read one new book a day and often re-read a book from the previous day and focus on finding all the words that start with that letter. Sometimes we do it just listening for the sound, and others I actually have her physically locate the letter Aa in the text. This helps develop auditory and visual discrimination necessary to tell the letters apart.
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Video
Kids learn lots of different ways, and music is one of them. I’ll be including a video from ABC Mouse in each week’s lessons, so you can tie in some musical fun! These were our favorite letter vidoes we found.
Crafts
The crafts for this week are linked in the pins or templates below.
To make this cute little ant hill, I used a picture of an actual ant hill and enlarged it to fill an A. We transformed tiny fingerprints into ants marching up a hill. We added antenaes and legs to this prints. (Next time I’d do three fingerprints connected to make it appear more ant like!)
You can grab my anthill template here, or by clicking on the pic below. We worked on thos fine motor skills cutting it out, and then slapped it on construction paper. Super cute and easy!
Alligators are one of my least favorite animals, but this sweet craft turned out super cute!
You can grab the color template here or by clicking on the image below. If you’d prefer black to color yourself, you can grab that here. Both are as simple as cut and paste!
This adorable angel is a cute keepsake and a fun way to practice the letter A!
I’ve got a very basic template and we traced her hands on yellow paper and added them as wings. We also added a gold pipe cleaner halo (remembered to after the photo of course).
This easy apple craft is a cute way to practice lowercase a!
Grab my free template here or by clicking on the image below. I also have a black and white copy for your convienence.
Our last activity came from the tutorial in this pin. We used paint markers and they turned out so cute!
Direct link to post: Popsicle Stick Apple
Activities
We had so much fun with these activities this week. Check out the pins below for all the free printables you’ll need for the activities in the Letter a lesson plan!
This simple activity is great for fine motor skills! Make it even more challenging by adding tweezers!
Direct link to site: Pom Pom Activities Sheets
You can never go wrong with Playdough and kids! This is a fun and easy activity!
Direct link to site: Alphabet Playdough Mats
This do-a-dot letter is lots of fun. We grabbed tons of BINGO markers at the Dollar Tree and practice making patterns too.
Direct link to site: Do a Dot Letters
An activity and a snack all in one? Tasty and educational!
Direct link to site: Alphabet Goldfish Crackers
We used q-tips and a paint set from an old craft so we could have lots of color variation.
Direct link to site: Alphabet Q-tip printables
Worksheets
Again, I am not the biggest fan of worksheets but I do think they serve a purpose. They will help reinforce the skills being taught this week. I’ve updated the plans to reflect the sets of worksheets I’ve created to work on specific skills.
This Letter Find worksheet practices upper and lowercase letter differentiation. There’s also some math tied in as well. After finding upper/lowercase letters, the total found for each should be written on the blank.
You can grab the free template here or by clicking on the picture below.
The Beginning sounds sheets are great for reinforcing those intial phonemes. In this sheet just have your kiddo color the images that start with a.
You can grab this for free here or below.
This letter maze is a fun way to practice letter discrimination. This is an important skill that helps childern differentiate between different letters of both upper and lowercase.
Grab this sheet here or below. 
Just a simple handwriting sheet. No need to focus on perfecting penmanship yet, but this is a nice intro.
Grab it here or by clicking below.
And because letter differentiation is such an important skill…one last sheet to work on it!
You can get your copy here or below.
All 26 Weeks of plans? Yes Please!
Don’t worry! This is not the only free lesson plan I’ve created for you! You can grab the entire 26 weeks of plans here! (***Update in progress and this unit will be updated when I’ve finished all 26 letters!) Better yet….I’m also working on a complete Teach Your Kid to Read curriculum. You can check that post out here and tons of free lessons and ideas that will making teaching your child to read a cinch!
To find the other activities referenced in this Letter A lesson plan be sure to follow my Letter Recognition Board here. For even more fabulous ideas, follow my whole account!
And…don’t forget to pin this one for later!
I would like to have copies of A-Z weekly letter lesson plans.
How do I obtain all the 26 letters?
Thank you
Hi Jen! I am currently working on them. I hope to get the rest of them completely done in the next 6 weeks. Summer is hard because my girls are home with no break! 😜 I am working on indexing the ones that are complete in a post also. 🙂
Will they be emailed to us each week?
Hi Shay!
I just sent out an email with a link to all of the lessons to date! 🙂 I will be updating that as they are completed.
Hi! How can I access all 26 plans as well?? Thank in advance!
Hi Heather, Somehow this comment got marked as spam. I do apologize for that! You cand find all the letter of the week lesson plans here: https://www.thiscraftymom.com/free-letter-of-the-week-lesson-plans-complete-series/
Hello!
I was wondering if there is a link where you can download all of the weekly letter lessons at once, rather than downloading them one at a time. I looked around but couldn’t find one. I really love your work and appreciate all of the time and effort you have put into these lesson plans. I would love to incorporate them in my preschool curriculum. Thanks so much for your time!
Hi! I have a link with all the lessons to be individually downloaded. There is a link to my TpT store in that post with an option to purchase the entire file and several assessments for $5.
Perfect! Thanks so much! I will definitely visit your TPT store! 🙂
Hi! First off, thank you so much for all of these WONDERFUL lesson plans! They are exactly what I’ve been looking for my 2 year old! I signed up for your emails and I wanted to know where/how to access the flash cards. Thank you!
Hi Rachel! So sorry for the delay! Your comment got accidentally marked as spam. There should’ve been a pop-up that comes up when the post first opens. If not you can email me at hello@thiscraftymom.com
i was wondering where i can get the flashcards from. i love your lesson plans idea and I’m sure my 4-year-old will love this just as much as me.
Hi,
There should be a pop-up on the site, if not, you can email me at hello@thiscraftymom.com
I would like to get the weekly lesson plans
I’m not sure why this comment is just now showing for me and apologize for my delay in response. You can find all of the letter of the week lesson plans at https://www.thiscraftymom.com/free-letter-of-the-week-lesson-plans-complete-series/
Hello, I have signed up to get the free flash cards to go with the lesson plans but I have yet to receive them.
Hi Valerie! Shoot me an email at hello@thiscraftymom.com, and I’ll get those forwarded to you. Sorry they didn’t go through. Also, be sure to check your spam folder because sometimes they inadvertently go there. 🙂
Hi Love these ideas! We start A tomorrow and I was wondering what the a is for alligator craft and a is for apple craft were? I saw the other crafts pinned but missed those two. Thanks very much
Hi Jessica, So sorry for the delay in response. I’m trying to get those pins to show but it appears to be a formatting issue. You can find all those pins and many others on my Letter Recognition Pinterest board. Hope that helps!!
Hi. Love the lesson plans. I was looking and saw that there is no letter N one. Is there anyway you can add that one?
Hi Ash,
You can find the link to the letter N plans here: https://www.thiscraftymom.com/letter-n/
I just noticed it’s missing on the main page. I’ve updated that to include it as well. thanks for letting me know! https://www.thiscraftymom.com/free-letter-of-the-week-lesson-plans-complete-series/
Love this site! Thanks!
Amanda,
Recently I’ve been searching through Pintrest to find ways to help my son with preschool this year. I came across your lesson plans for the alphabet and thought “yes” this is what I need. These are so adorable! I was wondering if you could send me the documents for each letter so that I may edit them for my son. I have already put in some time for his curriculum so I would like to make a few changes. Normally I would be sending him to preschool but northern VA is not providing preschool this year. Thanks in advance. Also, please know that I would not be offended if you are unable to do so.
Thank you,
Shelly
Hi Shelly!
I’m so glad you’ll be able to use them! I don’t have an editable version per say, but I do have a blank template that I can email you in pdf form. You may be able to edit that in an Adobe software. I’m not too sure how all that works to be honest! Just shoot me an email at thiscraftymom81@gmail.com! 🙂