Week 9: Free Letter G Activities

Welcome to Week 9 of Freedom Homeschooling’s Letter of the Week preschool curriculum!

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Week 9: Letter G Activities

Week 9 of our Letter of the Week preschool curriculum focuses on the letter G and the number six. In Week 9, your child will also learn about gardening and more. 

Letter G Activities: Day 1

• Watch Girls and Boys Come Out to Play. Encourage your child to sing along.
• Learn about the letter G on Starfall. On each screen of this interactive activity, your child will need to click the letter G, 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 G, and have him complete the worksheet on page 41 of the workbook.
• Read The Ant and the Grasshopper beginning on page 54 of The Fables of Aesop.
• 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 G Activities: Day 2

• Sing the alphabet song with your child.
• Watch Captain Seasalt and the ABC Pirates “G” Island cartoon.
• Show your child how to write the number 6 and help him/her complete page 42 of the workbook.
• Practice counting to six with your child using blocks, beads, or other household objects.
• Watch Peppa Pig – Gardening.
• Watch Girls and Boys Come Out to Play 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 G Activities: Day 3

• Watch Girls and Boys Come Out to Play and sing along.
• Read A Good Play on page 29 of A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson.
• On workbook page 43, help your child trace and write the letter G. Read the words under the pictures to him/her.
• Read The Green Grass Grew All Around by William Jerome to your child. You will find the book listed under “2nd and 3rd Grade Books.” It’s a PDF download.
• 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 G Activities: Day 4

• Watch the Letter G Phonics Song by Little Fox.
• Read Betty’s Flower Shop on pages 7 through 12 of Child-Library Readers: Book 2 by William Elson.
• On workbook page 44, help your child write and trace the number 6s. Have your child use a dot marker to mark six 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 six with your child using blocks, beads, or other household objects.
• Watch Girls and Boys Come Out to Play 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 G Activities: Day 5

• Sing the alphabet song with your child.
• Watch Tim McCanna, author of the book, read In a Garden.
• Have your child color the picture on workbook page 45, count the carrots, and write the number 6.
• Watch Girls and Boys Come Out to Play and sing along.
• Choose an additional activity, a recipe to prepare together, or a snack from the list below.

Additional Letter G Activities

• Writing- Have your child practice writing the letter G or the number six with his/her finger in a tray of sand, rice, or dried beans.
• Arts and crafts- paper flower garden, vegetable stamping garden art, or glue resist art
• Science- grow seeds in a bag (Skip the science journal and printables.)
• Field trip- community garden, botanical garden, garden center, or grocery store
• Recipe- granola and yogurt parfaits (alternate layers of yogurt, granola, and fruit) or a garden salad (with toppings chosen by your child)
• Snacks- grapes, grapefruit, granola, graham crackers, or Goldfish crackers

Letter F Review

If your child has completed all the Week 9 activities, and time allows, you may want to spend some time reviewing Week 8, which covered the letter F. However, if you do not get a chance to review Week 8, it is okay. Week 13 of the Letter of the Week preschool curriculum will review weeks 8 through 12.

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If you would like to buy the book from this week’s video read aloud, you can use this link to find it on Amazon: In a Garden by Tim McCanna.

Supply Reminder

Remember to look ahead to Week 10, decide which activities you would like to do with your child, and make sure you have the necessary supplies on hand. If you don’t have small stickers yet, your child will need a large pack of them beginning in Week 10. The stickers will be used on several workbook pages. They can be any shape as long as there are at least three colors in the pack.