Do you need a done-for-you lesson plan for your homeschool preschool Co Op with the letter N? I did. I gathered all my favorite letter N 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 N preschool co op lesson plan, then let’s go!
With each lesson has around 8 sections. I have found that on average, 15 minutes per project is pretty good, so it all evens out to be about two hours.
Preschool Words Starting With N
Nose, Noun, nap, neck, nest, never, night, noise, narwhal, nightingale.
the 8 parts to lesson N is:
- Welcome Play (Nouns Game)
- Introduction to the letter N
- Narwhal Lesson and Craft
- Handwriting N (print)
- Snack Time
- Story Time: Noisy Nora
- Lesson on Noise
- Making Noisy Instruments
- The Noisy Singing Concert
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
- 3 containers
- Nouns representing person, place, and thing (optional)
- Paper Plates
- Glue
- Tape
- Rubber Bands
- Drums: Paper Cups, Balloons, Tape, Straws or chopsticks for drumsticks.
- Maracas: Easter eggs, plastic spoons, rice, tape.
- Guitar: Paper plates, stapler, rubber bands, (paint stick optional)
- PanPipe: Paper straws, tape, popsicle stick.
- Kazoo.
- Snack ideas: Nachos, Nuggets (chicken), Nutella, Naan bread.
- mini water cups
- Buy, rent from library, or find online: Book “Noisy Nora“
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 N coloring page per child
- Download and print 1 set of Letter N Visuals/Nouns, noise combo
- Prep for nouns game by taping person place and thing on different containers, and cutting out nouns.
- Prep for Narwhal by cutting out paper plate templates for each child
- Prep for Noise Concert by gathering and cutting supplies as needed: Drum, guitar, panpipes, maracas.
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
Print out Nouns page and tape Person, Place, and Thing to a different container. Have the kids take turns putting nouns in the right container. (you can use real objects, toy houses for place, toy dolls for people, plate for thing etc,. Or print and cut out the people, places, and things pages.)
Introducing The Letter N
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 m?
What letter are we learning about now?
let’s sing the abc song.
It’s N!
N has one sound nnnn. like in napping. who here likes to nap? go home and ask your parents if they like to nap. I bet they’ll say they do. drawing n is a lot like m. up down up. and one line down and a loop.
Narwhals Craft
“Do you like unicorns? wouldn’t it be cool if unicorns were real and alive today? Do you like mermaids? wouldn’t mermaids be cool if they were real and alive today? Well let me show you one of the coolest sea creatures ever. It is a mix between a mermaid and a unicorn because it lives in the sea, like a mermaid, but has a giant horn like a unicorn! isn’t it awesome!
“What does it do with the giant horn? can it be magic? Well actually, do you want to hear a secret? it’s not actually a horn, it’s a tooth. For a long time, no one knew what they used their tusk for. But then they sent drones up in the air, and noticed that the Narwhals can feel things on their tooth, and when they feel a fish, they’ll whack it. This stuns the fish, and then they can eat it before it swims away. Here is a video. But you have to look really really closely to see the fish. (N is for Narwhal fishing)
We are going to make our own Narwhal! Here are the pieces cut out from a plate. We need to glue it together, and draw a face on it too.“
Handwriting: the letter N
Gather everyone to the table with pens and coloring pencils or crayons, and have them practice writing uppercase and lowercase N with this free printable, and the preschoolers can color the picture afterwards.
Snack beginning with the letter N
Nachos, Nuggets (chicken), Nutella, Naan bread.
Story time with letter N book: Noisy Nora
Lesson on Noises
“What did you think about Noisy Nora? Was it sad that she had to wait? Was it scary when she hid from her family? Sometimes, do we make a lot of noise so our parents will hear us? Do you think they like that? What could Nora do differently?” (could ask to help, could ask to play. Use her words instead). “What could her parents do differently to make sure Nora could be a part of the stuff they were doing?“
“But were some of the things she did look like fun? Because noises can be really exciting to make!
Noises are the best.
Who here loves to make noise?
All noise is made from vibrations. Vibrations is when something is going back and forth really fast (hold up a rubber band, and pluck it to make a noise) did you see the sound? Our own voices work the same way. We have these two muscles called vocal chords in our throat that get air pushed through them and they vibrate and it makes noise.
Noise is anything that we can hear. Some noises are not fun to listen to. Can you make some noise that isn’t fun?
What about beautiful noise? Can you make a beautiful noise?
Noise Maker Craft
We need to have all sorts of different noises to make music. There are drums were you pound, shakers that you shake, strings that you strum, and pipes that you blow, and of course, songs that you sing. We are going to make our own little band with these instruments.” (pick any or all of the crafts to make)
Now that they all have some sort of instrument. Tell them we are going to have a little concert.
Beautiful Noise Concert
Have them take turns singing a song (twinkle twinkle little star, ABCs, etc,.) while playing the instrument.
What are the rules when we go to a concert?
Be Respectful.
This means sitting still. Listen to the songs, clap when they are done. And compliment them on how wonderful they sang.
You can take your musical instruments home and have your own concert with your family.
(If you made multiple musical instruments, let some kids play background music for the main performer if they want).