Monday — C is for Cat
- Writing Practice: Write uppercase C and lowercase c. I found this great worksheet on https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/kindergarten/tracing-letters-c.pdf.
- Book: We have several cat books at home. A couple of our favorites are Keith the Cat with the Magic Hat by Sue Hendra and Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric Litwin.
We love the Keith the Cat and His Magic Hat book! An ice cream cone falls on Keith’s head and the other cats make fun of him, so he tells them that it is a magic hat. “Magical” things begin to happen and giggles ensue because as your child will catch on that it really is just a series of coincidences. The story has a great moral to it — treat everyone nicely and don’t make fun of others. The pictures are bright and cheerful too. Check it out from your local library or buy it through Amazon here.
Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons is not only one of my favorites to read at the library’s preschool story-time, but it is one of my son’s favorites too. The book is set up in the call-and-response style, which makes it interactive and fun for both me and my son. You and your child will enjoy chanting along with Pete as his buttons pop off. This is one of the original Pete the Cat books written by Eric Litwin and it is much shorter and more sing-songy than the more recent ones written by James Dean. Check it out from your local library or buy it through Amazon here.
- Craft : C is for Cat — to make this craft you will need 2 different colors of construction paper, scissors, white glue, googly eyes, pompom, marker, and 2 pipe cleaners.
Since we had a black and white cat, my son wanted to make his craft in these colors, but you can be creative and choose whatever colors you want.
I cut out a letter C from black paper, and my son cut out the 2 triangles for ears. He glued the letter C and the ears onto the white paper.
Next, my son glued on the pink pompom for the nose. Then, he folded 2 pipe cleaners in half to make whiskers and glued them on. Typically, we use glue sticks for all of our crafts, but we had to use white glue for the whiskers because the glue stick wasn’t sticky enough to hold the pipe cleaners.
My son added googly eyes and finished his craft by drawing a mouth.
- Worksheet: Help the cat get to the fish by drawing a line to all of the C letters (letter recognition activity).
- Song: Sing The Cat Came Back by the Laurie Berkner Band. This is such a fun one to sing — my son loves making the meow sounds. We discovered it on a preschool songs channel, and then my son came home from preschool one day and was so excited because they got to sing it at school. We find ourselves humming it periodically, which of course causes us to sing it together. Check it out YouTube.
Tuesday —
- STEM: C-A-T Search — Find 3 things that start with letter C; 2 things that start with letter A; 1 thing that starts with letter T. Now count how many things you have all together.
- Air Writing: Ask your child to hold up a hand and trace letter shapes with their finger in the air. I was skeptical of this at first, but my son really got into it and I periodically find him air writing his letters all on his own.
- Book: C is for Clown: a circus of C words: Jan and Stan Berenstain, authors of the popular Berenstain Bears series, also wrote a book all about the letter C. This book contains lots of words that start with C! Filled with circus-themed silliness and great pictures, this book will capture preschoolers’ attention and make learning letter C lots of fun.
Wednesday — C is for Carrot
- Writing Practice: Practice writing uppercase C with this free printable worksheet from A-to-z Teacher stuff!
- Book: We read Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds. This book has just the right about of humor and spookiness that preschoolers love! Jasper Rabbit loves carrots and eats them all of the time. All is well until the carrots start to follow him. . . (cue creepy music).
This book got mixed reviews on Amazon (mostly positive), but I can say that my son enjoyed it. It was not scary for him at age 3, and he thought it was funny. Check it out from your library. There’s a companion book called Creepy Underwear.
- Craft: Tissue Paper Carrot — I love handprint crafts! They capture your child’s sweet little handprint for you to look back on and ooh and ahh over how small it was 🙂
Supplies needed for this craft are white and green construction paper, orange tissue, glue, pencil, and scissors. (*Even though I had picked out white construction paper, my child insisted on using brown paper for his carrot, so feel free to choose any color paper you want.)
First, draw a large triangle on the paper to be the carrot. Let you child practice their cutting skills and cut out the triangle.
If you don’t already have orange tissue paper squares, cut or tear your tissue in 1-inch pieces.
Glue your tissue paper all over your carrot.
Trace your child’s hand on green paper and cut it out.
Glue the handprint to the top of the carrot to complete the craft.
- Song: Check out the Carrot! song on YouTube by Treehouse Direct.
- Worksheet: Carrot counting math worksheet! Count the carrots and circle the number.
Thursday — C is for Cake
- Salt Tray Writing: cover the bottom of a shallow tray or pie tin with table salt. Your child can take one finger to trace letter shapes in the salt. Practice writing the letter C.
- Worksheets: 1) Count how many candles are on the cake and write the number. Color the candles and the cake. 2) Draw a line from the number to box with same amount of pictures of things that start with letter C (counting activity).
- Book: Read Cake by Sue Henra and Paul Linnet. The bold, bright artwork and humor will appeal to your preschooler. Get ready to giggle at Cake’s first adventure to a birthday party.
Friday — C is for Cookie
- Writing Practice: write lowercase letter c. Print this free PDF writing practice worksheet from A-to-Z Teacher Stuff.
- Book: We read The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson. This is one of my son’s favorite books. I think we both have it memorized now! This is a super cute book about what foods farm animals like to eat. They are all very predictable except for the cow, who loves cookies! Preschoolers will love the rhyming, the repetition, and the fun sounds. Read this to find out why cow loves cookies so much. Karma Wilson is a very popular author, so your local library will probably have this book 🙂
We also read Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass. This book is the southwest version of the famous song. The pictures are awesome and preschoolers will love the sing-songy story. Turns out it was sneaky ants who took the cookies! But don’t worry, everyone gets a cookie at the end.
I’ve read this to the library preschool storytime group many times and they have always enjoyed it. It’s fun to play the Who Stole Cookie game after reading this. My three-year old really liked this book and since it was just the two of us, we set up some stuffed animals to be players in the game with us.
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- Craft: Cookie Cutter Coloring — make your own paper cookie creations! Grab a piece of white paper, your favorite cookie cutters, a pencil and crayons.
My son traced the cookies onto a piece of paper (I held the cookie cutter in place for him). This is great way to work on fine motor skills! Use a pencil so you can erase any errant pencil marks.
After making his cookie shapes, my son used crayons to color his paper cookies.
- Song: Sing along with Sesame Street’s Cookie Monster: C is for Cookie.
- Worksheet: Cookie Counting! Count how many cookies there are and circle the number.