Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter H? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter H crafts and preschool ideas, then put it together for a full 2 hour preschool lesson.
Welcome to Preschool Co Op! If you are wanting to know how to start an at home preschool co op, go here for beginning instructions. If you are all set, and just want to hop into the Letter H preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!
With each lesson has around 8 sections. I have found that on average, 15 minutes per project is pretty good, which means it all evens out to be two hours.
Preschool Words Starting With H
Hands, Hippopotamus, Horse, Happy, hangers, hungry, hot, hospital, history, hat, hum, hurt,
the 8 parts to lesson H is:
- Welcome Play (Hungry Hippos)
- Introduction to the letter H
- Handwriting H (print)
- Hats – Story, craft, and song
- Snack Time
- Lesson Family History
- Filling out a family tree
- Name that Hum
Supplies to Buy at the Store or Online
- Handwriting helpers for little hands (optional)
- Pens
- Printing Paper and Ink
- Markers/crayons/or colored pencils
- scissors
- Staples (hat #2)
- Stickers optional (this was the only family stickers set I could find)
- Snack ideas: Hot dogs cooked and cut up with toothpicks (kids love eating with toothpicks), Hershey’s candy, Honey nut Cheerios, Honey toast. Hummus and veggies/chips/crackers (there are even dessert hummus now!)
- mini water cups
- Hungry Hippos Game (you can usually find it for less than $10 on Ebay. Just make sure it gets here in time)
- Buy, rent from library, or find online: Book “Old Hat, New hat” (also cheap on ebay)
Optional Note: Many people have asked for just the coloring handwriting pages that I made for each letter. You can find each of them for FREE on each letter lesson plan. OR you can BUY IT as a digital download (CLICK HERE) or a physical copy (CLICK HERE)
Prep Work
Week before: go over supply list and buy all the online items.
Email Parents and explain that the next lesson will be on family history. Ask them for a story about the child, about their parents, and about their grandparents. The best stories would be funny ones, or one about their childhood. Remember to also ask for the grandparents names to put them on the family history tree
2 days before: Go on a shopping trip to pick up the rest of the needed supplies.
Day Before:
Printables:
- Download and print 1 handwriting H coloring page per child
- Download and print 1 set of Letter H Visuals/Family Tree activity combo (one family tree per child)
- Look at the 2 hat craft options, (option #1, option #2) download the printable, make sure there is enough for each child, and cut them out if needed.
Night before set up:
Prepare your home with these suggestions here
welcome Activity
Suggestion: Hungry Hungry Hippos, to play while waiting for everyone to arrive.
Introducing The Letter H
“Welcome everyone, do you remember what letter we learned last time? what were the 2 sounds? Do you remember any of the words that start with G?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s H!
H has one sound. it makes heh heh heh. like horse. can you think of other heh words?
Writing the uppercase H is easy, you make two lines down. and one line across the middle to connect the other two lines! little h is one line down, and then you start in the middle of that line and loop down into a line.“
Handwriting: the letter H
Gather everyone to the table with pens and coloring pencils or crayons, and have them practice writing uppercase and lowercase H with this free printable, and the preschoolers can color the picture afterwards.
Story time with letter book: Old Hat, New Hat.
My H-Hat It Has 3 Corners Craft
There is a fun little song/rhyme That goes perfectly with the letter we are studying today. Do you remember what sound we are learning? Hehe, that’s right! This song is about H-Hats!
And it has actions. My hat it has three corners, three corners has my hat. If it had not three corners it would not be my hat (pat your head for hat, show 3 fingers for 3, and make the shape of a triangle for corners). Hmm. It seems that we should have a real three cornered hat to sing this song.
- Option 1: Print out and cut the 3 sided hat from this tutorial. Staple it together, and let them decorate it with crayons or stickers.
- Option 2: Have the kids learn this simple origami hat paper folding. They can also decorate it with stickers and crayons. . . This one makes small hats, so they probably won’t fit well on the kids’ heads, but they fit well on stuffed animals.
Snacks beginning with the letter H
Hot dogs cooked and cut up with toothpicks (kids love eating with toothpicks), Hershey’s candy, Honey nut Cheerios, Honey toast. Hummus and veggies/chips/crackers (there are even dessert hummus now!)
Lesson on H-History: Your Family History
This will take the majority of your class time. You can give them the family tree paper with a pen/pencil when you start telling them the stories their parents sent you. Encourage them to draw themselves/family members in the small section, and then draw (or write a word or two) about the story that belongs to that person. Tell the stories of all the kids first, then move on to all the moms, then the dads, then grandpas, then grandmas, etc,. This way the kids will have a break between each of their own stories to draw, and won’t get too bored till their family’s stories get told again.
Note: Not all parents are natural story tellers/writers. Do your best to tell the stories in the most engaging ways to the kids. . . Even if that means editing down details, or focusing more on parts that the kids will like. You as the parent/teacher should always be trying to be the greatest storyteller of all time.
What does history mean? History is what happened in the past, usually a long time ago. But remember when we learned about the letter G? that happened in the past, so it is part of our history.
We are going to learn about our family history. Every person born on earth has a mom and a dad. Sometimes they might not know who they are, but they still have them! And they had lives, which are part of your history. And each of those moms and dads have moms and dads they are called grandparents, which also have history. Most history has facts and stories. This paper is facts about you and your family history. But each family has stories. What stories can you think of about you? what stories about your parents, about your grandparents? (share stories parents gave you, see if they can guess whose it belongs to)
Filling out a family History Tree.
Make sure they each have a copy of the family tree paper. If you don’t get through it all before they get bored or the time runs out, it’s ok to leave some of the areas blank, just tell them to finish filling it out at home, and encourage them to ask their parents about stories about their grandparents (or better yet, have them talk to their grandparents and ask them to tell them stories of themselves or their parents when they were little).
Name that Hum!
H-Humming is a fun way to sing even when you don’t know the words. If I hum a few notes of a song, could you guess the song?
Hum ABC. yes you got it!
Now each of you get to try humming and we’ll see if we can guess it.
The trick to knowing how to hum, is to think of singing the song, but instead of the words coming out, you keep you lips close together and make the mmmm sound.
Song ideas for Hum that tune.
- Old Mcdonald had a farm
- Mary had a little lamb
- Ring around the rosies
- London Bridges
- If you’re happy and you know it
- Itsy Bitsy Spider
- Jingle Bells
- Rock a bye baby
Continue having them hum and guess songs till they are picked up.
And that’s it! I hope you enjoyed the Letter H preschool co op lesson plan. If you end up using it, I would love for you to come back and share how it went by commenting below!
Check out Letter G Lesson plan for next time!