Letter of the Week for K



Our Letter of the Week packet for K is filled with karate kicks, koalas, kings and kangaroos!


Our Glimmercat character introduces the letter K with an exciting karate kick!


Every kiddo loves karate.  And one of the best picture books that covers the tale of the Three Little Pigs with a twist, is this one, "The Three Ninja Pigs":



This is a favorite of our own children, and spurred a new interest in martial arts in our family.  We did our best to channel this excitement into the letter K.  

On another day, we focus on kangaroos...


We include a craft and a puzzle for this day, and this little craft was one of our favorites.


I watched a few videos of Kangaroos on You Tube before drawing this fellow.  And I'm pretty pleased with how he (or she, come to think of it!) turned out.

And if you need to prove to children that a Kangaroo baby does indeed fit into a pouch, check out this adorable Joey squeezing himself into that small space:



Since Kangaroos aren't something my kids see everyday here in the states, it really helped to give them context for what a kangaroo is.  Before she saw this, my daughter was calling the craft picture a bunny rabbit.



Now, we created our Reading Literacy page on Don and Audrey Wood's picture book "King Bidgood's in the Bathtub."


Anyone who has read this book likely remembers it because of the incredible artistry of the pictures.  My son, especially, will pour over the images inside, looking at all the details and laughing over them.


 We decided to create our Reading Literacy page as a Sequencing activity:


Learning "Sequence of Events" is an important step, and this book is such a fun to learn it on.   After cutting out the pictures, my daughter used the book to flip through to help her remember what came next in the sequence of events.

 We decided the craft for this day, should probably revolve around a King, as well.  So here's our little King:


He's a little reminiscent of the king that follows the Queen of Hearts around in Alice in Wonderland.  You don't have to add the sword if you don't wish to, but somehow it made him just a bit more than a face and a cup.  Haha!


My last craft was one of those sleeper favorites that really surprised me.


My kids loved this little kite.  It was hanging around our house for weeks afterward.


 And every once in awhile, they'd go outside to swing it around again.



And here's what the craft looks like (from the lesson plan for that day):


We used the black and white version for ours and then colored it with crayons.  I had ribbon and yarn on hand and so we added both for the fishy's tail.  Very fun!


Everything seen here is available for purchase in one Letter K packet




For more information of our other Letter of the Week packets, be sure to check out:




Letter of the Week for A

Letter of the Week for B

Letter of the Week for C

Letter of the Week for D

Letter of the Week for E  

Letter of the Week for F

Letter of the Week for G

Letter of the Week for H

Letter of the Week for I

Letter of the Week for J

Letter of the Week for L

Letter of the Week for M

Letter of the Week for N

Letter of the Week for O

Letter of the Week for P

Letter of the Week for Q

Letter of the Week for R




Letter of the Week for J


Jumping Jehoshaphat, (as my grandfather used to say) , look at all this stuff we have for Letter J!!


Our Letter of the Week packet for the Letter J has some fun items hanging out inside for your preschool or kindergarten child, to offer them play and education.  Let's start with "J is for Jaguar": 


As we try to offer with most of our packets, this jaguar craft comes in both color or black and white, so that the kids can color their jaguar if they wish.  All you will need is a little egg carton cell to make the jaguar body, and some strong glue (I like Tacky Glue) to put it all together.

For those students who would like to see a fiercer jaguar, look at the dot to dot page in our jaguar lesson plan:



Of course, another often used creature for letter J is the Jellyfish.  The legs and eyes are all ready to be cute out on one of our craft sheets, and then stapled to a plastic baggie or a shower cap:


 Jellyfish are such odd critters and fun to watch in their ocean element, so a short YouTube video like this one, is great for an introduction:




My kids liked watching this jellyfish over and over, and once they'd seen it, prepping a craft that is mostly transparent, like this one is, makes more sense to them:



We also have a couple fun follow-up jellyfish activities.  One is this printable that involves coloring by letter recognition: 


But there are other Jellyfish activities, too.  Like a puzzle to put together which shows a pair of jellyfish when all put together:



Another fun project in our Letter of the Week packet, that I wanted to mention is a very fun activity that goes along with the book, "The Jacket I wear in the Snow" by Shirley Neitzel.



This is a fun little story in the tradition of "The House That Jack Built", where one thing builds on another.  After reading aloud this story to your preschoolers, it would be very fun for them to color this reading literacy page and then cut out the clothing elements and glue them to the child pictured.



And the last craft I want to show you is our "J is for Jet" craft.  This one's in our packet, with easy cut-outs and all that is needed to finish it off is a water bottle, or a slender white foam tube, which is what we used here.


Needless to say, THIS was my son's favorite.  He won't be forgetting "J is for Jet" for quite awhile.

For a lot more J activities, both printables, reading literacy activities, flash cards and a Letter J Matching Game, head over to our teacher store here.


For the other letter of the week packets, we offer the following blog links with crafts included.


Letter of the Week for A

Letter of the Week for B

Letter of the Week for C

Letter of the Week for D

Letter of the Week for E  

Letter of the Week for F

Letter of the Week for G

Letter of the Week for H

Letter of the Week for I


Letter of the Week for K

Letter of the Week for L

Letter of the Week for M

Letter of the Week for N

Letter of the Week for O

Letter of the Week for P







Letter of the Week for I


Imagine the letter I!    We focused on crafts zeroed in on the Short i sound, so if you're wondering where "Ice cream" or "Icicle" are hiding out, they are in abundance on Pinterest and you won't have any trouble finding them.  When it comes to Letter of the Week, I feel it is important to begin with the short sounds of vowels for toddlers.  Long sounds usually get introduced later.

The two main creatures we use to discuss the letter I in our letter I packet are inchworms and iguanas.   Let's begin with inchworms...


To begin with, our character Glimmercat walks up on an Inchworm and is startled into gasping out the short letter I sound!  We follow this up with an Inchworm Craft (see below).


This was one of those easy and extremely satisfying crafts to complete, and all it required was a pair of scissors and a pipe cleaner.  You don't have to add on the pompom and googly eyes like we did here, but if so, that makes it all the more fun.


This little guy really does "inch along" on his pipe cleaner way, just like a real inchworm might. And if you can pick up a little bag of YumEarth Organics' Gummy Worms, they are just the right size for tiny inchworms. 



Okay, first, iguanas are such a fun creature to introduce to preschoolers.  They are such fascinating reptiles and really are modern day dinosaurs, so what's not to love, right?

Here is a nice little Video of an iguana walking along a beach, that provides a beautiful introduction of the iguana for those children who have never seen one before. 


Our lesson plan for our Iguana Day looks like this:


Our Iguana craft uses shape matching for students to discern where to place the legs and tail and other body parts.  These shapes are small, but my daughter was able to complete her Iguana Craft almost entirely by herself.



Let's move on to I is for Igloo: 


If you remember, my husband and kids built a real igloo this past winter over here.
But, if you are in a traditional classroom setting, that might not help a whole lot, so images of
real igloos or pictures for context will be helpful.  Like this:


Regardless, building a crafty igloo is definitely something that preschool kids can do with just a little help.  In our I "Letter of the Week" packet, we begin with a basic shape for the children to begin piling on their popcorn peanuts or sugar cubes:


This is the basic outline of an igloo.   For our own practice on this igloo craft, we tried out the packing peanuts and foam chunks.





 We used Tacky glue and we built the igloos in stages so that at times the glue could dry.  This made it easier for the kids to grow their igloos.



The other thing we did is demonstrated in the above photo.  We added a small balloon for structure, and built up the last of our ice chunks on top of the balloon, trying to keep the glue just on our chunks, and not on the balloon.


Finished products look great!  The kids loved building their igloos.


Letter I makes for a wonderful letter of the week packet!


You can find it here in our store, or check out some of the other letter packets we offer:


Letter of the Week for A

Letter of the Week for B

Letter of the Week for C

Letter of the Week for D

Letter of the Week for E  

Letter of the Week for F

Letter of the Week for G

Letter of the Week for H

Letter of the Week for I

Letter of the Week for J

Letter of the Week for K

Letter of the Week for L

Letter of the Week for M

Letter of the Week for N

Letter of the Week for O

Letter of the Week for P

Letter of the Week for Q

Letter of the Week for R

Letter of the Week for S


Letter of the Week for T

Letter of the Week for U

Letter of the Week for V

Letter of the Week for W

Letter of the Week for X













Letter of the Week Packet for H



Let's talk about the Letter H!  Everything you see in this post is ready for digital printing fun in our Letter of the Week packet for H.


There are crafts, writing practice printables, a puzzle a Letter H Game, and Path of Motion practice.  Whether you are looking for extra curricular H crafts, Reading Literacy, or just fun stuff, this packet has it all.


Okay, the thing I have GOT to share, is the little song we made up for H.  For some reason, it really hit my kid's funny bone.  He sang this and he sang it.  And a year later (He is now six!), he still remembers it by heart. 


So, that's our little mnemonic for helping preschoolers remember that the letter H says "huh!"  And I guess it works.  Haha!

In our teaching packet for the letter of the week- H, we also do a House Craft.  Here is the lesson plan that shows Craft 1 (the House craft).   


The printable fold-up house is also available in black and white.  That way, the kiddos can color their little house whatever color they choose.  In the photo below, my daughter chose purple, because who doesn't love a purple house, right?  Tape is best for securing those edges.


Houses are great, but how many of you grew up with "The Little Red Hen" as a children's book?  


This cut and paste sequencing activity is included in our Letter H packet.  And, as a wonderful follow-up, we have this little Hen Craft:


All YOU need is a folded paper plate (and some red paint if you want to make a RED hen).




But let's talk about the one that my son loved the best!  H is for Helicopter!  

For our Helicopter day, we have a fun matching the letter activity, that looks like this:  


But let me share something we did that doesn't come in our Letter of the Week packet:


Aside from the plastic Easter egg, we used three straws, a pipe cleaner, some push pins and a little strip of cardboard toilet paper tube.  


Here's two of the straws, trimmed for helicopter landing gear.  The strip of toilet paper tube curls naturally, so it worked great as a connector.  We stapled the straws to that strip of tube.  The push pin was used to connect the landing gear to the plastic egg.


But first, the other ends of the straw were connected to the top of the egg with the pushpin.  It was surprisingly easy to push that pin through the egg.  But I may have had cheap plastic eggs.  Harder/ thicker plastic shells would be more challenging for this craft.


We still need the propeller off the back end of our helicopter.

We used another push pin to make a hole through the straw, and then we pushed the pipe cleaner through that hole.


The other end of the pipe cleaner, we worked through another straw and then affixed it on the inside of our plastic eggs...yay for little helicopters!



 Little ones will need more help with this craft and I can't imagine trying this in a large classroom, but...

...because of that, we created an easy paper helicopter in our letter of the week packet.


Following the instructions on this print-out, even younger children can enjoy creating a paper helicopter craft and have the fun of floating it down and watching the propellers go.




The last thing I want to show you is this other fun craft , H is for Horse.


It doesn't look much like a horse here, but once colored, cut out, rolled, folded and glued, with a little yarn added, we have this:


For a lot more H activities, both printables, reading literacy activities, flash cards and a Letter H Matching Game, head over to our teacher store here.


And here's the full list, Alphabet Letter of the Week packets:


Letter of the Week for A

Letter of the Week for B

Letter of the Week for C

Letter of the Week for D

Letter of the Week for E  

Letter of the Week for F

Letter of the Week for G

Letter of the Week for I

Letter of the Week for J

Letter of the Week for K

Letter of the Week for L

Letter of the Week for M

Letter of the Week for N

Letter of the Week for O

Letter of the Week for P

Letter of the Week for Q

Letter of the Week for R

Letter of the Week for S


Letter of the Week for T

Letter of the Week for U

Letter of the Week for V

Letter of the Week for W

Letter of the Week for X