Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter F? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter F 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 F preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!
Each lesson has 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.
Words starting with F
Flowers, Feathers, Four, Five, Fluffy, Fix, Finish, Fingers, Fiber, Fish, Frown, Facts, Famous, Fashion, Fast, Farm, feelings, Feet, family
the 8 parts to lesson F is:
- Welcome Craft Feathers handprints (Follow instructions here)
- Introduction to the letter (F)
- Family Craft
- Handwriting (print)
- Snack Time: Goldfish, fruits, fruit roll ups, farm grown veggies.
- Lesson on F – Farms Find animals 1-10
- Singing Farmer in the Dell
- Facts or False
- Counting to 20 song while waiting for pickup.
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
- Finger paint
- Feathers
- straws
- glue
- Googly eyes
- scissors
- Snack ideas: Goldfish, fruits, fruit roll ups, farm grown veggies.
- 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 F coloring page per child
- Read the Instructions on how to make Feathered bird handprints
- Download and print 1 set of Letter F/Family/Farm Lesson Visuals
- Make copies, and cut out, the blank faces family, enough for each child’s family (there is 1 woman, 1 man, 1 boy, and 1 girl on a single page, and I’ve added a few extra pages of just women, just men, etc,.) The kids will draw and color faces, hair and body for their family members, then glue them onto a piece of construction paper. Write at the top (child’s name) loves (his/her) family!
- Makes sure to have everything cut and set up for the handprints!
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 craft
Finger painting. hand print animals (always do painting activities as close to the beginning as possible, to let the paint dry before sending it home.)
Lesson on the letter sound F
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 E?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s F!
F has only one sound FFFFFFF. Like Family. Who is in your family?
F-Family Craft
Families are really important. And we all have different people in our families. There are moms, dads, brothers, sisters, grandmas, grandpas, even cousins and aunts and uncles. Let’s talk about your family that lives in your home. And let’s draw their faces, and do some coloring of our family.
Have them draw, color, and glue their family onto a piece of construction paper.
(once they are done, move back into talking about the letter F, and introduce Handwriting)
Handwriting the letter F
What other sounds can you think of that start with F?
(Show the letter Ff). You draw F a lot like E. A line down and a line over on top and in the middle. That’s it!
Now we are going to practice on this piece of paper, and you can color the flowers too. Look, there are 1,2,3,4,5 five frowning flowers.
Five Frowning Flowers Handwriting
Snack Time With Preschool Letter F Foods:
Ideas: Goldfish, fruits, fruit roll ups, farm grown veggies. Don’t forget the water cups.
Preschool F Lesson on Farms
I’m going to sing a song, and you can help. “old mcdonald had a farm“
“What is a farm? why do we need farms? Have any of you been to a farm?
(using the I spy Farm page, point out each animal, what noise it makes, what it’s uses are in a farm, and how many they are)
What kind of animals are on a farm?
- 1 Horse they can take us places, what sound do horses make?
- 2 Turkeys, we eat these for Thanksgiving, what sound do turkeys make?
- 3 Dogs, they help herd the sheep, what sound do sheep make?
- 4 Pigs, they give us bacon, what sound do pigs make?
- 5 Sheep, they give us clothes, what sound do sheep make?
- 6 Goats, they give us milk and mow our grass, what sound do goats make?
- 7 Cows, they give us milk and beef, what sound do cows make?
- 8 Cats, they chase the rats, what sound do cats make?
- 9 Rats they run away from the cats, what sound do rats make?
- 10 Chickens that give us eggs, what sound do chickens make?
Play the game and sing the song, the farmer in the dell.
How to Play Farmer in the Dell
Facts or False Game
Have them play the F -Facts, or F – False game for preschoolers. (true or false game)
FACTS or false. what is a fact? a fact is something that is true. What is false? false means it is wrong. I am going to say sentences, and you say FACT if its true and false if it is not true. ready?
- A cow’s baby is called a calf.
- A cat’s baby is called a puppy.
- a dog’s baby is called a kitten
- a chicken’s baby is called a chick
- a rat’s baby is called a piglet
- the song goes old hyperschnitzel had a farm
- We ate goldfish today
- we are learning the letter D today
- This child’s name is Frankenstein
(give time for the children to say what the real answer is, and give them each a chance to stand up next to you and say a ‘fact’)
Practice counting to 20
Watch or sing this Sesame Street song about counting to 20, and see how well each child can count.