Read King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
Point out the letter Kk. Talk about the sound it makes.
Begin work on retelling the story in preschooler’s words. Make tub for each page and have preschooler add simple drawings and cut outs to go with the story.
Put lipstick on and kiss a cutout letter K.
Practice ordering letters of last name.
Practice counting to 10. Can use objects preschooler collects or sort colored tiles into piles and count each color.
Make crowns for Kings. Talk about crown starting with letter Cc but sounds like letter Kk. (Introduce Cc as a thief letter–it steals other letter’s sounds.)
Practice kicking a ball.
Read King Benjamin (Book of Mormon Stories, Chapter 12)
(I haven’t forgotten the 200th post giveway–I’m just really behind right now. It’s coming . . . eventually!)
I like the idea of C as a thief letter. How do you explain what a vowel is? In trying to teach my preschool group about the letter Ii I told them it’s an important letter and appears inside lots of words like other vowels do. Oops. Blank stares. All I could come up with is that we can make vowel sounds inside our open mouths without having to use our tongue, teeth or lips. There’s got to be a better explanation!
I like your open mouth description of vowels. It’s preschool. That’s all they need to know in my opinion. Preschool is for introducing letters and their sounds and that they can be put together to make words and names. But mostly preschool is about starting sounds. It’s nice for them to know that there are vowels and consonants. I focus on recognizing the letters, knowing the sounds, spelling their names and three-letter sight words for preschool.