Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter D? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter D 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 D preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go! (P.S. This can also work for a letter d lesson plan for kindergarten.)
With each lesson has around 8 sections. I have found that on average, 15 minutes per project is pretty good. . .Although some take less and some take more. it all evens out by the end of the two hours.
Preschool Letter Recognition Words Starting With D
Donuts, Danger, Dogs, Ducks, Drink, Delicious, Drums, Dance, Darts, Drops, Deer, Dolphin, Dove, Dolls, Dinosaurs, dragon
the 8 parts to lesson D is:
- Welcome Play (waiting for everyone to get here)
- Introduction to the letter D
- Dragon or Dinosaur Activity
- Handwriting D (print)
- Snack Time
- Story Time: How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love You
- Lesson on Dinosaur Teeth
- Dropping Darts Game
- Dance Dance Party till pick up
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
- Beef Jerky, baby carrots for Dinosaur teeth lesson.
- Snack ideas: Donuts, Doritos, Dragon fruit, Deli meat and cheese on toothpicks
- mini water cups
- Dropping Magnetic Darts
- Buy, rent from library, or find online: Book “How Dinosaurs Say I Love You”
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.
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 D coloring page per child
- Download and print 1 set of Letter D Visuals/Dinosaur-Dragon activity combo
- Prep for Dinosaur or dragon game. Cut out all baby dragons and dinosaurs in their eggs. on the back of the eggs, write an uppercase D for the dinosaurs, and a lowercase d for the dragons. The kids will have to guess if the egg has a dragon or a dinosaur in it, by using the uppercase and lowercase eggs as clues. they then have to put the right egg in the right nest.
Night before set up:
Prepare your home with these suggestions here
If you are using the video suggestions, have youtube set up for those and ready.
welcome Activity
Have a small box of toys to play with till everyone arrives.
Introducing The Letter D
Welcome everyone, do you remember what letter we learned last time? what was it’s sound? Do you remember any of the words that start with C ?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s D!
D has a sound too, it is duh. can you say duh? D can make lots of words, can you think of any words that start with d? dogs, ducks, doctor etc. These all have the same beginning sound of D. D can look like 2 different letters. there is this D. that is one line down, and you attach a half circle from the top of the line, out and back in and down to the bottom line. And there is this d, which is one line down and only one circle on the bottom, but its on the other side of the line. This D is called the uppercase, or capital letter, and the smaller d, is called a lowercase d. It’s like one is the mom and the other is it’s baby!
Dinosaur and Dragons matching Game
Gather everyone in a circle. You can use tape to put the nest on walls, lay it down on a hard floor, or have them gather around the table. The eggs should be face down, with only the letter D or d showing. The kids take turns putting one dinosaur, then a dragon egg into their rightful nests. (When they are done, they can take 1 dinosaur and one dragon home if they want).
“Oh no! Something terrible has happened! A momma dragon and a momma dinosaur both lost their eggs out of their nests!! They need our help to find out which baby goes to which momma. Momma Dinosaur’s nest has Uppercase Ds, momma dragon’ has Lowercase ds.
Handwriting: the letter D
Gather everyone to the table with pens and coloring pencils or crayons, and have them practice the correct letters of uppercase and lowercase D with this free printable, and the preschoolers can color the picture afterwards.
Snack beginning with the letter D
Donuts, Doritos, Dragon fruit, Deli meat and cheese on toothpicks
Story time with letter book: How do dinosaurs say i love you
Lesson Plan Letter D and Dinosaur teeth
Dinosaurs.
“Who here loves dinosaurs? They were giant birds that lived a long long time ago, before any people even! We didn’t know a lot about dinosaurs, since we’ve never seen them alive, but we have found their bones a lot. people who dig up dinosaur bones are called paleontologists. Have you ever gone to a museum and seen a real life dinosaur skeleton? Lots of the dinosaurs were bigger than our houses! and some ate plants and trees, they are called herbivores, and some who ate other dinosaurs, they are called carnivores. They can tell what they eat by their teeth. See the Tyrannosaurus rex (t rex) has giant teeth that would bite down hard on someone. but this dinosaur had flatter teeth, to grind plants together with.
“Try it. What teeth are you using to bite through this beef jerky? Your sharp front teeth, right? Now what teeth are you using to chew up these carrots? So what does that make us? Are we carnivores that eat meat like a tyrannosaurus? Or are we herbivores who eat vegetables like the stegosaurus? We eat both! A lot of us humans are omnivores who eat all the things. Including donuts!“
(bonus mini snacks with jerky, carrots, and donuts) “I think I’m a donutvore, because that’s what my teeth love. What kind of ‘vore are you?” (cerealvore, ice creamvore, etc)
Bonus Ending Game: Dropping Darts
This is a fun game for little ones. with your help to guard them and keep them safe, let them stand on a chair or a stool, put the magnetic dartboard on the ground in front of them, and let them take turns dropping the magnetic darts onto the dartboard. (It’s less than $10, and worth buying to keep for myself afterwards)
D For DANCE PARTY! throw the wiggles on the tv at the end and have everyone dance till their parents get here. Bonus if you teach them the D-D-Duck song