Letter E: Full 2 Hour Preschool Co Op Lesson Plan

Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter E? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter C 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 E preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!

There are 8 sections with each lesson. I have found that on average, it takes15 minutes per project. so in the end, it takes about 2 hours.

Words starting with E for preschoolers.

Elephant, Eggs, Excalibur, Eggplant, Energy, Ears, Even, evidence, exercise, exciting, exiting, enter, empire, eyes

the 8 parts to lesson E is:

• Welcome Play – Eye Spy (waiting for everyone to get here)
• Introduction to the letter E
• Handwriting (Print Letter E)
• Write E and e egg craft
• Snack Time
• Lesson Riddle: Elephants
• Game/Song: Emotions
• Story Time (Never ride your elephant to school, or any Reginald and Pic books by Mo Willems)

Supplies to Buy at the Store or Online

• Handwriting helpers for little hands (optional)
• Pens
• Printing Paper and Ink
• Markers/crayons/or colored pencils
• Construction paper to cut out a letter E and e for each child.
• White paper for the egg shells
• Colorful pom-poms (caterpillar craft)
• glue
• Mo Willems Elephant and Pig books (library)
• Letter E Snacks (optional)
• Snack ideas: E Ideas, Eggo waffles (show how to use a toaster) show how to peal an egg, make deviled eggs (evil eggs?)
• mini water cups

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 E coloring page per child
• Download and print 1 set of Elephant/emotions Visuals packet
• Makes sure to have everything cut and set up for the Egg E Letters Craft

Night before set up:

Prepare your home with these suggestions here

Welcome Activity

Play Eye Spy with the children as you wait for everyone to arrive.

Lesson on the letter sound E

“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 D?

What letter are we learning about now?

let’s sing the abc song.

It’s E!

The Letter E is a vowel, can everyone say vowel? vowels are the sounds we make when our mouths are open. like AAHOHHHUHHIHHEhhh. Letter E has 2 sounds EHHHH as in Elephant and E as in Eel. Can you repeat after me eHHHH now EEE. Very good. E has two ways to spell it. the uppercase is a line down, then you start at the top and do a line over then a middle line over then a line at the bottom over. 3 lines over. one two three. and the lowercase is a line over in the middle, then up just a bit, then loop to make a C.

Handwriting the letter E

Letter E Printable

Letter E Egg craft

Make these E and e in an egg shell craft. It will all be precut out, they will just glue them together on a piece of construction paper.

Snack beginning with the letter E

Eggo waffles (show how to use a toaster) show how to peal an egg, make deviled eggs (evil eggs?)

Preschool Lesson: The Riddle (E for Elephant)

“We are going to hear a riddle, who here knows what a riddle is? It’s kind of like a joke, but it’s not supposed to be funny. It’s supposed to make us use our minds to think hard for the tricky answer.

Are you ready to hear a riddle?

I’m going to tell you a story of 6 blind men. After we hear the story of all 6 blind men, you need to use your mind to figure out what Animal they really saw. Ok?

Once upon a time, a circus came to town where there were 6 blind men. The circus owner had a special animal that nobody in that town had ever seen before, and he was charging everyone a dollar each to go in and touch it.

So the 6 blind men went in, one by one and touched it.

The first one went in, then cam out. “Wow!” He said, That animal is like a strong wall!

Then second blind man came out. “Amazing! That animal felt just like a giant tree.”

The third one came out “Outstanding! That animal felt like a long anaconda snake.

The fourth one came out. “So weird, that animal felt like an oversized fan.”

The fifth one came out. “Terrifying, that animal felt like a sharpened spear.”

Finally the 6th and last one went in, being very afraid. He didn’t like big scary animals. But when he touched the animal, he exclaimed. “What? This is only a frayed rope.”

Which of the blind men were right? And what do you think the animal was?

Give them each the mini paper so they can give the riddle to their parents.

Game activity and Song with E – Emotions

Who here liked the riddle? We are going to talk about emotions. Did any of you feel surprised when you found out it was an elephant? What about when you guessed right, what was your feeling? Happy? Did any of you feel sad when you guessed wrong? Besides surprised, happy, and sad. What other emotions can we feel? Have you seen the movie inside out? Do you remember the 5 people in her head? the yellow one was. . . Joy, the blue one was. . . sadness, the red one was. . . anger, the green one was. . . disgust, and the purple one was fear!

We are going to sing a song about all the emotions! You’ll have to listen carefully so you know what to do. And you’ll have to practice making different emotion faces. Like anger, can I see your angry faces? Those aren’t angry faces! They’re too cute!

Ok, Here’s the song:

Sometimes it is fun to act out our emotions. But sometimes when it’s not a happy emotion, our parents don’t know how we are feeling unless we tell them. Let’s look at this list of emotions, and each of you can pick an emotion and tell us one time when you felt that way. (make sure they start with I felt ______ blank when) Thank you for sharing. It always make me (point to happy) happy when we can share how we are feeling with each other.

Story time with letter E

As many Mo Willems Elephant and Pig Books you can get at the library. And read to them till they are picked up. They are perfect for preschoolers.

And that’s it! I hope you enjoyed the Letter E 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!