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Hey y’all! Maybe you’ve been with me awhile, or maybe of you are just stopping in from the 10 day series posts that is currently going on between myself and some other pretty awesome education bloggers. Either way, I want to fill you in on what I’m doing here.

What I have to share is geared towards preschool/early Kindergarten. Whether you’re a homeschoolin’ preschool Mama or a teacher, these week-long lessons are perfect for you! I’ve done all the research and put it into one super cute file. I even provided free templates, worksheets, listed materials and linked all the rest of pins for you.

Boom! The hard work is done for you Mama!

I’m a former kindergarten teacher – so this stuff is legit! Did I mention I have my Masters in Reading Education? I totally geek out about this stuff! Stay tuned as I’m working on an entire curriculum to teach you how to teach your pre-schooler to read!

Brought to you by the letter F

This brings us to this week’s letter, the letter F. Before we get into this week’s Letter F Lesson Plan,  I have a cute teacher story to start this one off! It’s a little long – but bear with me – it’s worth it.

Everyone knows show and tell is a right of passage in kindergarten. So quite a few years back, I’m being my cute little kindergarten teacher self and innocently starting the day with calendar time and show and tell.

We get to little Bobby and he has brought the most adorable sock monkey to share with the class. All of the children light up and bubble over with tales of their own stuffed animals and from the back I hear a tiny voice exclaim, “Why that’s a effing monkey!”

What??

I remember looking wide eyed at my teacher assistant in the back, sure I’d misheard and seeing her mouth gape wide open. Luckily, the rest of the class was too absorbed in their own tales to notice.

My assistant quickly took over and and I quietly pulled the culprit – Little Sally – to the side of the room.

“Sally, What did you just say about that monkey?”

“I said, That’s an effing monkey,” she replied clear as a bell.

“Sally, did you know that word – that’s a bad word and we should never say it at school?”

She looked up at me…pig tails and blue eyes innocent as could be and quietly shook her head. She clearly had not a clue.

So I spent the next couple of minutes explaining to a 5-year-old that the F-word wasn’t exactly the sort of adjective we liked to hear at carpet time.

And yes…her parents were mortified.

And there you have it…this week is brought to you in honor of the letter F.

Letter F Lesson Plan

Here are this week’s lesson plans. You can click on the image above to download or follow the link here.

Flashcards

Again, if you are just joining us I want to give you a run-down as to how I teach letters and sounds to my child and the many students I had before her.

One of the very foundations a child needs before learning how to read is grapheme and phoneme awareness. If you don’t speak teacher nerd – that means knowing her letters and sounds.

In my many years of teaching – I found that students were able to best commit a letter and sound to memory if they had a picture and sound to represent each letter. Every day they would repeat the picture, letter, and sound to commit it to memory.

I have created a set of flashcards for you. All you need to do is review them daily. Additionally, there is a set of different activities at the beginning of the pack that you can do with these cards. You can grab them by signing up for my email list!

This week’s card is “f-fairy-/f/.” You will need to practice this along with the previous weeks cards.

Books

Every lesson I include a week’s worth of books and then some.

Some of the books for this week’s lesson may be a bit harder to find. I was lucky to find The Fox went out on a Chilly Night at the library. There was only one in the whole region and apparently they cost a bloody fortune on Amazon. However, the Additional Books section can always be swapped out if those books are easier for you to find.

As always I’ve included a couple of Amazon links for you. Remember, you can buy books used off of Amazon and save a fortune!

For your convenience, this post contains affiliate links. If you purchase from these links I may make a small commission at no cost to you.

Video

This week’s song is sung in a fun french accent.

Crafts

This little footprint craft gets me a little misty eyed. The days are long but the years are short!

It’s a super easy craft just involving paint and a foot!

F is for Feathers is another fun craft.  My girls really enjoyed this one.

You can grab my basic template here or by clicking the link below.

This cute little frog is an easy craft with my free template!

This fish craft was quick and easy.  You can grab the free template for this one here or by clicking the image below.

This sweet fox couldn’t contain it’s cuteness in just one template page!  Grab page one here, and page two here.

Activities

The activities in this week’s Letter F Lesson Plan can be summed up in one word.  Fun!

Check out our projects and then the pins below for more free printables!

The food collage was the perfect use for all those old Food magazines I had laying around. I always thought I’d look at the recipes again, but never do because I live on Pinterest!

Worksheets

If you’ve been with me you’ve heard me say it. Worksheets are a necessary evil. A little review never hurt any kid, and they can be good independent work when you need 5 minutes here or there to yourself.  I created a series of worksheets that targets specific skills for practice.

This Letter Maze is great for letter discernment.  It’s a bit more challenging because there are lots of letters mixed in together in both upper and lowercase.

This Beginning Sounds worksheet targets exactly what you’d expect, beginning sounds.

While I don’t make letter formation a big part of the Letter of the Week series, I do include some practice.  This Handwriting sheet lets students practice writing the letter F.

This Color by Letter Type sheet practice differentiating between upper and lower case letter F.

Here’s even more letter discernment practice in a different format.  This Letter Find sheet has students practice identifying upper and lower case F.  I also incorporated a tiny bit of math!

That’s it for the Letter F Lesson Plan.  For the rest of the lesson plans in my letter of the week series, click here.   I’ve also got some fun, free, weekly theme plans there too!

Don’t forget to follow me on Pinterest for tons of other letter of the week ideas!