Letter x is hard one! For all of the other letters in the alphabet, I focused on the first letter in each word to correspond with the letter of the week, but I couldn’t make it work with letter x. So for this week, we focused on letter x sounds at the end of the word, such as in BOX and FOX. Super Simple has a great video about words that end in letter X:Super Simple Turn and Flip X
Monday — X is in Box
- Writing Practice: Write uppercase letter X– Free, printable PDF Uppercase X worksheet.
- Books: A Fox Found a Box by Ged Adamson–
Fox discovers a radio abandoned in the forest. After some trial and error, fox and his friends get the radio to work and the forest is filled with music. The author takes the reader through a moving journey about how the power of music effects our feelings. What happens when the batteries run out and the forest is quiet again? Fox and friends begin to appreciate the sounds of nature and realize that there has always been music all around them.
The Box Turtle by Vanessa is sweet story about little turtle is born without a shell. Not to worry though, because he gets a cardboard box to use as a shell.
- Craft: Stamping Letter X — Decorate letter X with your favorite stamps or stickers.
Supplies needed: 2 different colors of construction paper, scissors, glue, and stamps or stickers.
Choose one color of paper and cut 2 long strips. Ask your child to glue these strips into an X shape on top of your other piece of construction paper. Now it’s time to decorate! Grad your stamps or stickers and decorate letter X.
- Worksheet: Draw a line from the box to all of the X letters.
- Song: Sing the alphabet together!
Tuesday — X is in Six
- STEM: Work on making groups of six. Children can practicing grouping 6 like things together, such as 6 Cheerios, 6 coins, or 6 toys cars. Make six different groups that each have six things.
- Air Writing: Ask your child to hold up a hand and trace letter X shapes with their finger in the air.
- Rhyme: “Sing a Song of Sixpence”
SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE
Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
Oh wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king?
The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!
- Worksheet: Print out this free, PDF worksheet, grab some crayons, and color all of the shapes with letter X.
Wednesday — X is in Fox
- Writing Practice: write lowercase letter x: free printable lowercase lettertracing x worksheet.
- Book: Read Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss–
Warning, this silly, rhyming book will result in tongue-twisting giggles! The funny rhymes and bright pictures will keep preschoolers engaged throughout the story. This book is on the long side, but the silliness should keep preschoolers entertained as you rhyme your way through this one. Skip a few pages if you think the story is getting too long.
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- Craft: Tissue Paper Fox Craft–you’ll need orange tissue paper (or you can tear orange construction paper into small pieces), a paper plate, scissors, glue, googly eyes and pompom for the nose.
- Rhyme: “A Hungting We will Go” is short rhyme about a little fox.
A HUNTING WE WILL GO
Oh a-hunting we will go,
A-hunting we will go,
We’ll catch a fox and put him in a box
And then we’ll let him go.
- Song: Sing along to “The Letter X Song” by ABCmouse.com: https://youtu.be/_eXZ2w_Ent4
- Worksheet: Fox handwriting and color worksheet. Print this free, downlaodable PDF for your preschooler to practice tracing letters and building eye coordination by trying to color inside the lines.
Thursday — X is for X-Ray
- 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 x shapes in the salt.
- Video: Do you wonder what is an x-ray and what to expect when you have to get an x-ray? Here is a short and simple video for children to understand more about x-rays.
Friday —
- Writing Practice: Practice writing bother Uppercase and lowercase letter x.
Letter Xx handwriting practice worksheet (free, printable PDF)
- Book: make your own Letter X Rhymes mini book.
Download and print the free PDF. Read the rhymes out loud with your child and ask them to circle all of the words with letter x. Then color the pictures. Preschoolers can cut the pages along the dotted line, and grown ups can finish off the mini book by stapling the pages together.
- Craft: Let’s make letter X with things we can find in our home. What can you find to make an X shape? Check your craft supplies for crayons, pencils, and string. Look in your kitchen for spoons, chopsticks, and straws.
- Song: Check out Bounce Patrol’s “Letter X Song.”