I’m doing Letter of the Week with my little guy who just turned three. Follow along and see what we’re learning!
My son is really enjoying our letter of the week activities! Each day we sit down for about 10 or 15 minutes and do two or three activities. We read books all throughout the day. Sometimes I sneak in an extra activity before dinner.
(Update: I published this post years ago when my children were young. Now that I have more time, I’ve created a done-for-you alphabet curriculum perfect for preschool!)
Letter B Activities
We always begin the week with our printable alphabet books. We read my free book of letter B rhymes and songs and my picture book for letter B. We pull these out whenever we think of it!
He enjoys doing my dot sticker pages for each letter. So far he’s surprised my by completing the entire page. (My older preschooler rarely did that.) I’ve been laminating them so that we can put them all together in a book when we’re done. You can get your copy here.
I blew a balloon up just a little, and he did some balloon painting.
This window butterfly let me think a little bit about spring… even though we’ve got about eight inches of snow! You can learn more about it and get lots of other letter B craft ideas in this post.
I pulled out our counting bears, and my Three made a graph. He didn’t understand questions like “Which color do we have the most of?” but he loved sorting and counting each row. Get this free printable plus LOTS of other fun activities (including bear pattern strips) in this post about math with counting bears.
Here’s another counting bear activity. He put the bears on each dot, counting as did so. This gave him great practice with one-to-one correspondence.
My Three isn’t ready for formal handwriting practice, so I printed a giant letter B for him to fill with buttons.
This is actually a super simple and neat sensory play activity. He really enjoyed building with blocks and bubbles. Learn more – or find an outside bubble activity – in our collection of bubble play ideas.
Of course, we’re reading our letter B books throughout the week. These were his very favorites, but we have a lot more ideas in our letter B book list.
It’s always important to bring it back to the whole alphabet! This week we did a simple activity where I wrote some letters on a piece of paper. He used a dot marker to cover the letters I named.
Looking for a done-for-you alphabet curriculum?
Alphabet Curriculum for Preschool
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Our curriculum includes lessons for teaching both upper and lowercase letter names and sounds. You’ll get three lessons per letter, built-in review, simple handwriting practice, rhyming, syllable counting, phonemic awareness, and a whole lot more!
All your links in one spot!
- Little Letter B Book (songs and rhymes)
- Letter B Dot Sticker Page
- My Letter B Book (with photos)
- Letter B Crafts
- Letter B Book List
- Giant Letter B to print
Is your child ready for more of a challenge?
My little guy just turned 3. If you have an older child or one who’s simply ready for the next step, try some of these!
- Try more counting bear math, including work with patterns.
- Do some letter B handwriting pages.
- Try Beginning Sound Cover with poker chips.
- Clip the pictures on our beginning sound clip cards.
- Practice beginning sounds with our match mats.
- Do a beginning sound coloring page.
See the whole series …
You’ll love our alphabet curriculum
Alphabet Curriculum for Preschool
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Our curriculum includes lessons for teaching both upper and lowercase letter names and sounds. You’ll get three lessons per letter, built-in review, simple handwriting practice, rhyming, syllable counting, phonemic awareness, and a whole lot more!
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Holly B.
I LOVE your site!!! I realized today that my 3 1/2 year old knows almost half the alphabet! Thanks to your (& a couple other) sites! I am so glad to have all the resources of the web to have fun in “school.” My little guy loves school. He even requests it on Saturdays!!!
Anna Geiger
I’m so glad your preschooler is enjoying school at home with you, Holly! Isn’t it so much fun to watch them learning? So glad you get to experience that with him!
shaya
hi. wow it was amazing as always, I am really interested in all your ideas, God bless you and your family. thanks for sharing, I have some questions and thats kind of you to answer. do you do all these job in one week or a day? another thig is about the letter name and sound you teach both? you say (beeeee) and show (B) and then say (b) and show b? don’t you have social studies in your curriculum? do you have weekly curriculum or lesson plan for the whole week? thank you so much
Anna Geiger
Hello, Shaya! It took us about a week to do all of these activities. I look at all the materials I put together on my alphabet page for that letter (https://www.themeasuredmom.com/learning/) and choose some from each section for the week. I choose what I think my son can do, since some of the activities were designed for older preschoolers.
I don’t actually write out lesson plans because I have 5 small kids and I don’t have time. But I have an idea in my head.
I do teach the letter and sound at the same time.
I don’t do traditional social studies for my 3 year old because I just don’t have time. But I think we do a lot of that naturally in daily life. He visits stores and the post office, we talk about community workers, etc. So I don’t think formal teaching about social studies is necessary at this age.