So glad to have you join us as we journey on to our next letter “I”. This Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter I printable pack is loaded with fun activities for your preschooler. Our emphasis is on reading, and with over 50+ Pages and 30+ Activities you can keep your little one busy and engaged in learning. If your child has shown an interest in reading and already knows their ABCs then this post is perfect for you. If you have children who are sitting up and pulling to a standing position, then you may enjoy our Letter I post from last year, which includes sensory ideas and set-up for an intro to the letter “I”, click here: Letter I, or our “Igloo Craft” post. This post contains affiliate links for your convenience
Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter I
Sometimes it’s not easy to know if your child is ready to tackle the next step after learning their ABCs. If you would like to assess your preschooler’s readiness in the area of reading, I have a free chart in my post, Advancing Preschool Reading Behaviors.
To do my lesson planning each week, I first look at the schedule for the week and then figure how I can incorporate some learning fun into our schedule. As I discussed in my Montessori planning post, a key element is to observe the child. My son enjoys painting, cutting, and glue; but he doesn’t like alot of coloring. He likes sensory play – things like play doh and anything messy or sticky.
He loves it when I read to him but he is also very active and enjoys games and activities that are engaging. In my post on Montessori Planning I use Montessori guidelines to outline the key areas for focus when working with him. If you’re interested in Montessori, the post includes a planner and organizer to help you get started. I also created a vertical version of a Montessori planning chart for our Morning Board. I’ve attached the vertical versions below. Just click the image for a larger version that you can download and print at home.
In preparation, I spent some time on Pinterest looking for things that might be good for our letter I activities this week. I pinned everything that looked interesting. My goal is to create a board for each letter of the alphabet. Follow me on Pinterest if you want to get copied on all the resources and ideas that I discover via Pinterest. Honestly though, this printable pack includes 30+ activities, so you may not need to look for anything else online.
Learn to Read Preschool
A heavy emphasis is being placed on reading in our preschool at home efforts this fall. If you’re looking for books for an emergent reader, I recommend:
Pete the Cat: Pete’s Big Lunch (My First I Can Read)
Cooking With the Cat (The Cat in the Hat: Step Into Reading, Step 1)
Animal Babies (Rookie Ready to Learn: Seasons and Weather)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Carle – A children’s classic. I created some FREE Very Hungry Caterpillar Printables as part of a guest post on Crafts for Kidlets if you’d like some free “Caterpillar” printables.
Our routine is to use the morning board about twice a week with lots of reading every day. The Morning Board helps cover key skills – how to read a calendar, how to tell time, count money, bible verse for the week, shape, color and number for the week. It includes some key life skills as well as basic math skills. I don’t expect any sort of mastery here – I’m just trying to introduce concepts to my son. During that time I also read a bible story. I will use various tools on the morning board for the entire year or until my son has mastered the skills. As a subscriber you have many of the morning board printables at the bottom of your e-mail from me. Click the links for the printables. For a complete list of our morning board printables click here: Morning Board.
To supplement my plan, I also use God’s Little Explorers. Our letter I coincides with week 7 in GLE. In God’s Little Explorer’s the bible story for the week of letter I study is the story that includes insects (locusts to be exact). My favorite activity (used to emphasize the story of Moses and Pharaoh) is one where you make play-doh bricks and talk about how the Hebrew people were slaves and how they had to work hard at making bricks. Stacie has some wonderful ideas. Click here to learn more about God’s Little Explorers.
I’ve created a Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter I activity pack with an emphasis on vocabulary, reading and fine and gross motor activity. The FREE pack is available to subscribers and includes 30+ activities for preschoolers:
12 Coloring Pages – you can use q-tips with paint, glitter-glue, play-doh, goo, goop, or whatever you like
Letter I for sensory tracing
Connect the Ice Cream Cones 2
0 flashcards with short words that start in “Ii”
4 Do-a-dot Pages
Letter Ii with Ice Cream
5 Tracing Pages
Igloo Craft
Igloo Lace-Up Card
Shapes Cutting and Matching
Cutting Practice
Align and Count
Insects in the Jungle Game
Dolch letter “I” sight words – focus on the shorter words first
Our learning table set-up for the Letter “I”. My boys absolutely love this Mickey Mouse Table - given to us by my mom.
One of the fun sets of printables from the packet is the “Hide the insect in the jungle game.”
We attempted to paint the letter “I”. The boys are painting on our Melissa & Doug Deluxe Standing Easel. A gift from Nannie.
Games are always so much fun! Pretend you are an inch-worm. My 3 1/2 year old is crawling through the Melissa & Doug Happy Giddy Tunnel. A gift from auntie Liz.
We’re having so much fun – playing games and learning to read. I hope that you are enjoying this journey with us! Please help me grow my blog by spreading the word on Facebook or by Pinning this post on PINTEREST. Thanks!
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