Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter G? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter G 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 G preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!
Each G activities for preschool 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 comes out to be about two hours.
Preschool Words Starting With G
Garden, Giraffe, Goats, Gorilla, Groundhog, Gifts/giving, Grow, Glue, Gingerbread, Green, gems, guessing, gifts/giving
the 8 parts to lesson D is:
- Welcome Play (waiting for everyone to get here)
- Introduction to the letter G
- Gorilla or Giraffe Matching Game
- Handwriting G (print)
- Snack Time
- Story Time: The giving tree
- Lesson on Gardens
- The Little Red Hen’s Garden
- Giving Gifts Game
Supplies to Buy at the Store or Online
- Handwriting helpers for little hands (optional)
- Pens
- Printing Paper and Ink
- Markers/crayons/or colored pencils
- Playdough
- scissors
- Gifts for each child (it can be something from the dollar store, or a piece of candy)
- Snack ideas: gingersnaps, grapes, gummy bears, gold fish, graham crackers.
- mini water cups
- string or ribbon to tie a tag to the gift
- Buy, rent from library, or find online: Book “The Giving Tree”
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 G coloring page per child
- Download and print 1 set of Letter G Visuals/Little Red Hen
- Prep for Welcome craft by cutting out grapes from the G visual packet. The kids will roll playdough into balls and stick them onto the paper where each grape is.
- Prep for Gorilla or Giraffe Matching game by cutting out the g words (ghost, gems etc). they will then be put or glued under the gorilla or giraffe who has the same starting sound (ghost under gorilla, gem under giraffe)
- Prep for Little Red Hen by cutting out the animals individually, so each child has one.
- Prep for older preschoolers lesson: Copy the page with 1st-12th and the page with 12 steps from seeds to eating bread. One for each child. Cut the 12 pictures into squares to put in order while telling the little red hen story. They can glue them and take them home.
- Prep for gift giving game: Cut out the gift tags with the smile, thank you, and I love it, faces on it. one for each child. Then attach it to a small gift for each child.
Night before set up:
Prepare your home with these suggestions here
welcome Activity
Using Playdough, have them see how many balls they can roll up and place onto their g-Grapes page.
Lesson on the letter Recognition sound G
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 F?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s G!
G has 2 sounds! juh juh like the word Gem. but the juh sound G letter doesn’t have a lot of words that start that way, most G words make the sound Guh. like goat. Can you make the sound guh?
G like giraffe g like gorilla matching game
I want you to meet George the Giraffe, and Gary the Gorilla. They are collecting things that start with the same letter and sound as their names. We are going to take turns picking up a square, and deciding if it belongs to George the Giraffe, or Gary the Gorilla. (in the G visuals packet)
Take turns picking them up and placing them underneath the right names. The words are: Goat, girl, gems, gummy bears, ghost, grapes, gingerbread man, gift, gold, golf(er), grain, and guitar.
Wow, who has the most things collected? It’s the gorilla. We can think of more G words making the guh sound instead of the juh sound huh. But that’s ok. Because we will be learning about the letter J soon, and it has the juh sound too.“
Handwriting And Coloring The Letter G
Getting the children together to practice their handwriting will help develop their fine motor skills.
“To write the upper case G, make a C, then make it look like it’s eating it’s foot! to make a lowercase g, make a circle, and make it look like it’s tail is hanging down.” (use the visuals packet uppercase and lowercase G to have them follow along)
Have everyone go to the table to practice handwriting upper and lowercase Gs and coloring the giraffe eating grapes
Story Time With Letter G:
Read the book The Giving Tree to the children.
Snack beginning with the letter G:
gingersnaps, grapes, gummy bears, gold fish, graham crackers.
Lesson on Gardens.
“Yesterday we talked about animals on farms. Some farms also have gardens. Gardens is where we grow fruits vegetables and flowers! Have any of you had a garden? Gardens are so fun. You start with something so tiny like a seed. And can end up with delicious food!
Who here likes to work? Who here likes to wait months for a treat?
Well, I’m going to tell you a story about a little red hen. And she will show us what it takes to grow things in our gardens.
Instructions:
- For older preschoolers: Place the page that is numbered 1st-12th in front of them, with the 12 steps to go from seeds to eating bread randomly in front as well. Tell them to listen to the story, and try to put the steps in order. (The steps are in BOLD)
- For younger preschoolers: You can have 4 children help tell the story. They hold up the picture of their animal, and say the words “nope” or “I will do it myself” when you point at them. (I added extra animals to say “nope” if everyone wants to participate).
The Little Red Hen
Once upon a time, A little red hen named Greta, found seeds on the road where they must have fallen off a cart of wheat. She became really excited, scooped the grain up, and ran to her home. She lived with 3 other animals, but they were all lazy! there was lazy Gabe the dog, sleepy Ginny the cat, and the sluggish Goose, Gordon.
Greta the hen burst in and asks who would help her plant the seeds? and all she heard was “nope” (have the 3 kids assigned as the animals each shake their head and say “nope”)
“Well then, I will do it myself” (have the child being the hen repeat “I will do it myself”)
Well, soon enough the plants started to grow, but so did weeds all around it. Greta Hen knew she would have to dig in and pull up some weeds. again she asked for help, and again each of the animals said (pause) “nope”.
Then she said “I’ll do it myself”.
She weeded the garden, made sure that the seeds had plenty of water and sun, and finally the grain was ready to cut. “Who will help me cut the grain?” She asked. The answer? “Nope”.
“I will do it myself”. So she did, and she tied the wheat into a sheaf. Then she asked if they would help her take it to a Mill to grind her wheat into flour. “Nope” so she said “I will do it myself”.
Finally when she came home with bags of flour, she was exhausted and decided to go to sleep. (have them all pretend to sleep). Then when she woke up the next morning, she wanted fresh, yummy, homemade bread. She tried to wake up the others, but they all mumbled in their sleep “nope”.
So she made it herself. She added ingredients, rolled the dough into balls, and put it in the oven
A few hours later (sniff) something smelled amazing! the dog got up, the cat got up, and the goose got up. They all ran into the kitchen where Greta Hen was just pulling warm bread out of the oven. their mouths watered.
“Hmm,” Said Greta. “Who will help me eat this bread?” “I will” Shouted the dog, “I will ” shouted the cat.” “I will” shouted the goose.
“You will? But you didn’t help plant the seeds, weed the garden, water the plants, harvest the grain, grind the flour, or bake the bread. So I think that everyone who helped, gets to eat the bread.” And so she ate it all by herself.”
The End.
“Was she being mean to not share? Or was it fair because no one wanted to help her? Because we are little, we get a lot of things from our parents without us having to work for it. But what can we still do to help our parents, or at least to show gratitude to them? Saying thank you? Doing chores? Asking if you can help? Being polite? These are all good things to show our parents who work hard for us, that we are GRATEFUL for what they do.“
Giving Gifts Game
“Being grateful is another really important G word. In the story of the giving tree, the little boy didn’t seem to be very grateful to the tree. But we can be grateful whenever we are given gifts by saying thank you. I am going to teach you the 3 things to always do when you get a gift.
1. Smile
2. Say thank you.
3. Say “I love it because” and then say something you love about it.
“You can do this for anything! Even if the person gives you garbage. Watch.
(hand a child a wrapper) What are the 3 things?(smile, thank you, I love it because. . .Help them come up with something. . It smells good, I love it because it makes a cool crinkly sound. . .It has bright colors, etc.
Now make it a game, and have them grab things and give it to each other, and have them say the 3 things and see what they come up with. In the end, give them each their gift with the 3 things tag on it to take home.