Week 5: Free Letter D Activities

Welcome to Week 5 of Freedom Homeschooling’s Letter of the Week preschool curriculum!

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Week 5: Letter D Activities

Week 5 of our Letter of the Week preschool curriculum focuses on the letter D and the number three. In Week 5, your child will also learn about visiting the dentist and more.

Letter D Activities: Day 1

• Watch ABC Song Speeding Up and sing along.
• Learn about the letter D on Starfall. On each screen of this interactive activity, your child will need to click the letter D, wait for the animation to play, or complete the activity to get the green arrow to appear. Then, he/she will click the green arrow to go to the next screen.
• Show your child how to write an upper and lowercase D, and have him complete the worksheet on page 21 of the workbook.
• Watch Hey Diddle Diddle. Encourage your child to sing along.
• Optional: Choose an activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list of additional activities near the end of this page.

Letter D Activities: Day 2

• Watch Hey Diddle Diddle and sing along.
• Watch Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates “D” Island cartoon.
• Show your child how to write the number 3 and help him/her complete page 22 of the workbook.
• Practice counting to three with your child using blocks, beads, or other household objects.
• Watch Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Daniel Gets His Teeth Cleaned.
• Optional: Choose an activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list of additional activities near the end of this page.

Letter D Activities Day 3

• Watch ABC Song Speeding Up and sing along.
• On workbook page 23, help your child trace and write the letter D. Read the words under the pictures to him/her.
• Read The Dog and the Shadow on page 156 of The Fables of Aesop.
• Watch Hey Diddle Diddle and sing along.
• Read Humpty Dumpty from The Real Mother Goose.
• Optional: Choose an activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list of additional activities near the end of this page.

Letter D Activities: Day 4

• Watch the Letter D Song by ABCmouse.
• On workbook page 24, help your child write and trace the number 3s. Have your child use a dot marker to mark three boxes of the ten frame. You may want to place something under the worksheet to protect your table, because the dot markers tend to soak through paper.
• Practice counting to three with your child using blocks, beads, or other household objects.
• Watch Mr. Miller read If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff.
• Watch Hey Diddle Diddle and sing along.
• Optional: Choose an activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list of additional activities near the end of this page.

Letter D Activities: Day 5

• Watch ABC Song Speeding Up and sing along.
• Watch Ryan and Craig read Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman.
• Have your child color the dogs on workbook page 25. Read the words on the worksheet to him/her.
• Watch Hey Diddle Diddle and sing along.
• Optional: Choose an additional activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list below.

Additional Letter D Activities

• Writing- Have your child practice writing the letter D or the number three with his/her finger in a tray of sand, rice, or dried beans.
• Arts and crafts- dot marker coloring pages, dot paint with cotton swabs, or draw a picture
• Science- dropping items experiment or density experiment
• STEM- play with dominoes
• Field trip- dairy farm, doughnut shop, duck pond, or dinosaur exhibit
• Recipe- dip recipes
• Snacks- dates, dried fruit, dill pickles, doughnuts, or dinosaur nuggets

Letter C Review

If your child has completed all the Week 5 activities, and time allows, you may want to spend some time reviewing Week 4, which covered the letter C. However, if you do not get a chance to review Week 4, it is okay. Week 7 of the Letter of the Week preschool curriculum will review weeks 1 through 6.

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Build a Home Library

If you would like to buy any of the books from this week’s video read alouds, you can use these links to find them on Amazon.

• Go, Dog, Go! by P.D. Eastman
• If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff

Supply Reminder

Remember to look ahead to Week 6, decide which activities you would like to do with your child, and make sure you have the necessary supplies on hand.