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Dainty, delectable, defiant, decadent…this weeks letter is the Daddy of all adjectives.

The letter D!

Check out this week’s Letter D lesson plan.  If you missed last week’s letter C plans you can find them here.

Download this week’s lesson plans by clicking on the picture below or clicking here.

Flashcards

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Flashcards should be reviewed daily.  This week’s card should be practiced like this “D-dog-/d/.”  You can also start to incorporate the activities from the first page of the flashcards as well.

Books

We actually only have Go Dog Go at our house, but I found all but Danny the Dinosaur at our library.  I was able to grab Danny the Dinosaur really cheap from Amazon though!

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Video

Here’s the ABC Mouse song for this week.  It’s super sweet and cute!

Crafts

This sweet little mallard duck craft is a cute way to accessorize a handprint!

I didn’t make a template for this one since it’s so simple.  Just grab some orange and green construction paper and cut out a head, two feet and a beak!

I love dogs.  Like love them to the point I’d  be that crazy dog lady if my husband didn’t reign me in.  So this sweet craft brought an instant smile to my face.

Grab my free template here or by clicking on the picture below.

D is for drums sounded like a cute activitiy until I imagined all the choas that would ensue.  So instead of making drums, we stuck with this cute craft.

You can click on my picture or here for the free template.

This sweet little dinosaur craft was fun and easy.

Grab that template here or from the image below.

This site shared a fun and easy idea.  We just cut ours out of construction paper and used qtips to make the dots.

Here’s a link straight to the blog post.

Activities

Here’s a glimpse of some of this week’s fun activities!

This dino hat was  a hit!  You can find directions here, or by clicking through the pin below.

This Do-a-Dot activitiy is a quick and easy way to reinforce letter shapes. The direct blog post can be found here.

We love any excuse to get the playdough out!  Playdough, a tray and a marble and you can practice all the letter super easily!

This activity is great for those motor skills!  I recommend doing a couple of the previous letters as well.  It’s a great way to practice!

Here’s a link to the blog post with the free printables. You can also click through the Pin to get there.

I wanted to make doughnuts but that seemed a  little too complicated.  Instead, we used this simple template and added glitter glue sprinkles on our doughnuts.

There are 1,000 different decoration ideas, but glitter glue seemed the easiest that day.

Worksheets

Here are the worksheets for the week.  I created each one of them with certain skill practice in mind.  Each image contains a link to download.

The Beginning Sounds worksheet focuses on the super important skill of isolating the first sound in a word.

This Color by Letter Type sheet focuses on being able to tell the difference between upper and lowercase D.

The Letter Find sheet helps differentiate between all the other letters as well as focusing on upper and lowercase D.

While letter formation isn’t a big focus for us yet, it is an imporant skill.  This Handwriting Sheet introduces writing Dd.

This Letter Maze offers practice with visual discernment and makes it more complex with letters being in a compressed space and all jumbled up.

That’s it for this week’s Letter D Lesson plan.  You can find all 26 plans here, as well as details on how to download them all in one place!

If you haven’t already, be sure to follow my Letter Recognition board on Pinterest!  I pin lots of great preschool ideas frequently!

You can find all of my letter of the week lesson plans here!   Be sure to check out my free weekly theme lessons as well!