Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter K? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter K 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 K preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!
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 Words Starting With K
Kings, Kangaroos, Knives, Knights, kind, kiss, kid, kick, kix, Koalas, keys.
the 8 parts to lesson K is:
- Welcome Play (kick ball mini)
- Introduction to the letter K
- Kangaroos and Koalas lesson
- Kangaroo Pouch Craft
- Handwriting K (print)
- Snack Time
- Story Time: King Bidgood’s in the Bathroom
- Lesson on K-Kings
- King Cole Craft
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
- construction paper
- glue
- popsicle stick (optional)
- Paper Plate
- Snack ideas: Kix cereal, kiwis, kind bars.
- mini water cups
- Buy, rent from library, or find online: Book “King Bidgoods in the Bathtub“
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 K coloring page per child
- Download and print 1 set of Letter K Visuals/Kangaroo Craft cut out 1 kangaroo craft per child. cut along the dotted line of the pouch.
- Download and print 1 King Cole paper book per child.
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 ball, and a small area to play a mini kickball game.
Introducing The Letter K
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 J?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s K!
K sounds like Kuh. Do you remember another letter that also sounds like Kuh? like in Cat? That’s right, lots of C words sounds like Kuh too. So it can be really hard to remember which kuh words start with c or with K. (letter people, c stealing the sounds) K is a line down, and then start high, and slide down to the middle, then slide back out and down. little k is like that but the slide is smaller.
Koala And Kangaroo Have Pouches Craft. (and Australia)
Well K has two fun animals, Koala and Kangaroo. They live in Australia. Here is where Australia is on the map.
The cool thing about both of these animals, is they have a pouch built into their bodies, so they can carry their babies around with them without having to hold them in their arms! (watch marsupial video). Koalas are really tired all the time, their favorite food are eucalyptus leaves, that are actually poisonous, so their bodies have to sleep a lot to get rid of the poison. True story. Kangaroos are awesome. they jump super high and super fast. they can jump faster than people can run. look at them jumping next to this car! (kangaroos jumping)
Let’s make some Kangaroo mamas with their babies!
Instructions on completing the letter K Kangaroo Craft: Cut out both kangaroos. Cut along dotted line of mama kangaroo’s pouch. glue mama kangaroo (just the outline) onto a piece of construction paper – Make sure the kangaroo isn’t completely flat, there needs to be enough space for baby to jump in there!. glue or tape baby kangaroo to half a popsicle stick, then the baby should be able to slide in and out of mama’s pouch. Note: If the mama kangaroo is too flat against the construction paper, you can just slide the baby in the pouch without the popsicle stick.
Handwriting: the letter K
Gather everyone to the table with pens and coloring pencils or crayons, and have them practice writing uppercase and lowercase K with this free printable, and the preschoolers can color the picture afterwards.
Snack beginning with the letter K
Snack beginning with the letter K ideas: Kix cereal, kiwis, kind bars.
Story time with letter book: King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub
Lesson on K-Kings
K is for king.
Who here knows what a king is? Kings used to rule over countries, but there aren’t that many kings anymore. When you were a king, everyone had to do whatever you said, even when it wasn’t nice. So most people realized that they were their own king, and only they should decide what they were allowed to do.
If you were a king, what would you make others do for you? Would you make people bring you money? make them build you a great big house to live in? would you make them cook your food, and clean your house, maybe make you nice clothes, it would be pretty cool to be king. . . but not to be one of his servants. The cool thing, is that we are living like kings in our own home. I have a servant who washes my dishes for me. . . its called a dishwasher. I have a servant that washes my clothes. and dries them. washer and dryer. When I want food warm, I hand it to my servant, and 30 seconds later, they warmed it up for me (microwave). I have a horse and chariot that I don’t have to have servants to take care of (car). and I even have a servant who takes out my bathroom stuff (a toilet). Living like kings is awesome.
Old King Cole Craft And Song
There was a King Named (start singing)
Old King Cole Was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he!
He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl, and he called for his fiddlers 3.
We are going to make our very own coloring books for old king Cole. But you have to follow my instructions. And then when we finished, we can sing the song again. (Follow instructions Here)