It’s time to learn about letter P! Some of our favorite foods begin with letter p: pizza and pineapple! Plus some fantastic animals start with the letter p too. Can you think of any? I’ll give you a clue: one of these animals lives in the freezing cold in Antarctica. It’s a … penguin! Let’s dive into letter p and learn about some other animals that start with this letter.
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Monday — P is for Pizza
- Writing Practice: write uppercase letter P. Try this free worksheet from Doozy Moo: https://doozymoo.com/pdf/uppercase-letter-tracing/uppercase-letter-p-alphabet-tracing-worksheet.pdf
- Book: Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party by James Dean. Pete the Cat is so popular with the preschool crowd! Goodness, they go crazy for this cat 🙂 In this Pete adventure, Pete and his friends all want different toppings on their pizza. How are they every going to make the perfect pizza to enjoy together?
- Craft: Paper Plate Pizza — make a pizza out of a paper plate, red paint, and construction paper! Add some math fun by counting the toppings as you glue them on. Check out the how to on https://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2020/06/pizza-craft.html
- Song: sing along with Super Simple Songs to Pizza Party!
Tuesday — P is for Pineapple
- STEM: 5 Senses — we have 5 senses: sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound. Let’s use our 5 senses on a pineapple! (1) What color is the pineapple? Do you see any marks on it? (2) what does the pineapple feel like? Is it smooth or rough? (3) Take a sniff. Does the pineapple have a sweet smell? (4) Take a bite and taste the pineapple. Is it yummy? (5) What do you hear? Can you hear crunching sounds when you chew your pineapple?
- Craft: Salt Paint Pineapple — Using a pencil, draw a a pineapple shape on a piece of cardstock. Next, have your child trace the drawing with white school glue. Pour salt on the glue. We used regular table salt for this. Gently shake off any excess salt. Now for the painting part! Using water color paints, paint the body of the pineapple yellow and then paint the leaves green. Let your project dry before showing off your awesome salt paint pineapple!
- Air Writing: Ask your child to hold up a hand and trace letter P shapes with their finger in the air. I was skeptical of this at first, but my son really got into it and I found him air writing his letters all on his own.
Wednesday — P is for Pig
- Writing Practice: write lowercase letter p. Print off this free writing practice worksheet from Doozy Moo: lowercase letter p
- “P is for Pig” Worksheet: color the pig and trace the letters in the word PIG. Download and print your free worksheet–P is for Pig
- Books: We read Party Pigs by Eric Setzer. We really like the humor in his books, so when we found out there was a pig one, we just had to read it! Check this one out from your library– you won’t to miss the fun! It is also available to buy on Amazon.
- Craft: Paper Bag Pig Puppet — to make this cute puppet you will need 1 paper bag (lunch size), pink construction paper, scissors, glue stick, crayon, and googly eyes.
Cut out 4 shapes: 1 large oval for the body, 1 circle for the face, and 2 triangles for the ears. Glue the oval onto the main part of the bag. Glue the circle onto the flap, being careful not to accidently glue the flap shut. Then glue on the ears. Using your crayon, draw on a snout. Complete your puppet by adding googly eyes.
Now it’s play time! Stick your arm in the bag and curl your fingers into the flap. Use your fingers to lift up and close the flap to look like your pig is talking! Oink, oink, oink!
- Song: Sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Make sure to include pigs along with all of your other favorite farm animals!
- Rhyme: Act out “This Little Piggy” rhyme with your child’s fingers or toes.
Thursday — P is for Pig
- 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.
- Letter P Worksheet: color all of the boxes with letter P p. Download and print this free PDF: letter P
- Color by Number: work on recognizing numbers 1-4. Color all of the boxes to reveal the mystery picture. Get a copy of this free PDF Color By Number – Pig worksheet for your preschooler to color.
Friday — P is for Penguin
- Writing Practice: write uppercase and lowercase letter p. We used this worksheet from K5 Learning: https://www.k5learning.com/worksheets/kindergarten/tracing-letters-p.pdf
- Book: I’ll Wait Mr. Panda by Steve Antony features both a Panda and a Penguin — great P words! Mr. Panda is making a yummy surprise and all of the animals are excited to eat it. They keep asking if the surprise is ready and impatiently storm off when Mr. Panda tells them it’s not ready. The only one who patiently waits is a penguin. Penguin keeps insisting, “I’ll wait, Mr. Panda,” every time someone asks if the yummy treat is done baking. Finally, penguin’s patience pays off and penguin is rewarded with a super awesome, yummy surprise!
- Craft: Basic Shapes Penguin Craft! Download this free template, color the pieces, cut them out, and glue them all together to form a penguin.
- Song: Sing and dance along with Jack Hartmann to the Penguin Dance!
- Rhyme: Move along with your child to this cute penguin action rhyme!
- Math: Penguin Math Worksheet— count the pictures in each box and then circle the number.
Thanks for learning letter P with us. Now it is time to start learning all about letter Q!
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