Welcome to letter K week! Here are my free preschool alphabet lesson plans for learning Letter K! This week we learning about koloas, kites, kangaroos, and kings. Help your child letter K with these fun worksheets, crafts, songs, and STEM activities. Hopefully your library will have all of the books suggested, but if they don’t, ask your librarian for suggestions. This site contains Affiliate Links (see full disclosure at the end of the post for more information).
Free Learning Letter K Lessons Plans:
Monday — K is for Koala
- Writing Practice: practice writing uppercase letter K with this free worksheet from Doozy Moo: https://doozymoo.com/pdf/uppercase-letter-tracing/uppercase-letter-k-alphabet-tracing-worksheet.pdf
- Book: I highly recommend Rachel Bright’s The Koala Who Could. This is a story about Kevin the Koala who is so fearful of the unknown and change that he misses out on a lot of fun. One day, change happens to Kevin, and guess what, he survives just fine. He learns that no matter what we do to try and prevent change and hide from the unknown, change is an inevitable part of life. And sometimes, change can lead to even more fun! This story is such a great example for kids to be brave and try something new.
- Craft: Hand Print Koala–turn your child’s handprint into a koala in this fun and easy craft. All you need is paper, cotton ball fluff, scissors, and glue to make your own.
- Song: Sing along with The Wiggles to Koala-by, a short song featuring this adorable animal!
- K is for Koala Worksheet: bonus worksheet — trace the letters in the word KOALA and color the picture.
Tuesday — K is for Kitten
- STEM Activity: Make your own Superhero Fizz with supplies you have at home! My son loved this activity and we have repeated multiple times because it is too fun to just do once 🙂
- Air Writing: Ask your child to hold up a hand and trace letter Kk shapes with their finger in the air.
- Book: Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes. My son loves this book. He was skeptical to try it at first because the illustrations are in black and white, but he found the illustrations to be amusing and enjoyed them. This book is a playful and sweet story about a kitten who thinks the full moon is a bowl of milk in the sky. She makes numerous (often comical) attempts to reach this bowl of milk. With no luck catching the moon, kitten returns home to find a real bowl of milk waiting for her.
- Rhyme: Read Mother Goose’s The Three Little Kittens nursery rhyme together!
Wednesday — K is for Kite
- Writing Practice: write lowercase k. Here is a free letter tracing worksheet from Doozy Moo: https://doozymoo.com/pdf/lowercase-letter-tracing/lowercase-letter-k-alphabet-tracing-worksheet.pdf
- Books: read Kite Flying by Grace Lin and Kite Day: a Bear and Mole story by Will Hillenbrand.
In Grace Lin’s Kite Flying, a family makes the most of a windy day by building and flying a kite together. I love that the whole family is involved with the construction of the kite — they all go the craft store to get supplies and each person makes their own contribution to the kite. Finally finished, the family takes dragon kite outside to watch it take flight! Fantastic illustrations add to the fun of this story.
Will Hillenbrand’s Kite Day: a Bear and Mole story takes place on a lovely, windy day — perfect for flying a kite. Friends Bear and Mole decide to make a kite. They plan, collect supplies, measure, and construct (great for STEM lesson) and then take their new kite out for some flying fun! Suddenly a storm blows in and the kite escapes. Bear and Mole chase after their kite. Oh no! Is the gone forever? They find it stuck in a tree where it is sheltering baby birds from the storm 🙂
- Craft: Kite Stick Puppet — Print of this free template to make a kite. Cardstock paper works best, but regular printer paper will work too.
1. Color the kite and the bows. Decorate the kite with stickers!
2. Cut out the kite and the bows.
3. Glue a piece of string or yarn to the back to make a tail. Glue the bows onto the tail.
4. Turn your kite into a stick puppet by gluing on a craft stick to the back side of your kite. Let your glue dry. Once dry, “fly” your kite around your home!
- Song: The “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” song from Mary Poppins popped in my head! My son had no idea what I was singing, so I found the song on YouTube to share with him.
Thursday — K is for Kangaroo
- 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 both uppercase and lowercase Kk.
- Worksheets: 1. Circle all of the K letters that you find in this free, printable PDF worksheet — LETTER K recognition worksheet. 2. Color the letter K and then trace the uppercase and lowercase Kk letters. https://doozymoo.com/pdf/alphabet-book/letter-k-alphabet-activity-worksheet.pdf
- Book: We found an awesome book at our library called Kangaroos by Julie Murray. It contains great kangaroo facts about what kangaroos look like, where they live, and what they like to eat. The book is not very wordy and has great pictures to keep little learners engaged! Check you library for this great book.
- Kangaroo Exercises: Can you do like a kangaroo? Can you hop up and down like a kangaroo? Can you kick your legs like a kangaroo? Can you punch your fists like a kangaroo? Can you thump the ground with your foot?
Friday — K is for King
- Writing Practice: print this free PDF letter k writing practice worksheet for your child to practice writing both upper case and lowercase versions of the letter: https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/kindergarten/tracing-letters-k.pdf
- Book: The Cook and the King by Julia Donaldson.
In this funny story, a king is searching for the perfect cook. The king meets Wobbly Bob, who is perfect for the job except for one problem–Wobbly Bob is afraid of almost everything. In order to help him feel brave, the king accompanies Wobbly Bob through all of the steps that go into cooking a meal. As always, Donaldson’s rhyming text is fantastic and David Roberts’ illustrations capture all of the humor.
- Craft: K is for King construction paper craft. Supplies needed are 3 different colored pieces of construction paper, scissors, glue, and jewel stickers.
1. Select a color for the letter K. Adults can draw the letter and let preschoolers practice their scissors skills by cutting out the K shape.
2. Glue letter K onto a piece of construction paper.
3. Select another color and draw a crown. Cut out the crown.
4. Glue the crown on top of the K.
5. Decorate the crown with jewel stickers!
- Song: Sing the “Old King Cole” nursery rhyme for this week’s song: https://youtu.be/xaEHP1ZwBRE
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