Preschool teachers and daycare providers can help children learn to recognize and write the letter F through fun activities that support clear learning objectives.
Implementing activities that support clear learning objectives, preschool teachers can create brilliant lesson plans that help young children learn the letter F.
Learning Objectives
- The students will identify the letter F.
- The students make and recognize the F sound.
- The students will learn to trace and write upper and lower case Fs.
- The students will identify objects that begin with the letter F.
- The students will play Freddie the Frog.
- The students will listen to books that feature the letter F.
Handwriting and Phonetics
In order to introduce the letter F, create a poster board which shows both the upper and lower case letter F. Glue a variety of pictures of objects cut from magazines that begin with the letter F. Discuss the poster board with the children, pointing out the variety of items that begin with the letter F.
Demonstrate the F sound and ask the children to make (repeat) the F sound. Ask the children to think of objects, names, and places that begin with the letter F.
On a white board or chalk board, draw both an upper and lower case F. Children can practice tracing the letter F in both upper and lower case using letter F worksheets. A letter F worksheet appropriate for preschoolers can be found on the TLSBooks website. In addition, teachers can direct children to practice making upper and lowercase Fs using pencils or crayons on blank sheets of paper.
Cognitive Learning: Object Sorting
Object sorting is great cognitive learning activity which will help children identify objects that begin with the letter F. For this cognitive learning activity, place objects which begin with the letter F in a cardboard box or other container. Along with these items, place objects beginning with other letters of the alphabet. As each object is revealed, children will sort those objects that begin with the letter F from those that do not.
Examples of objects that begin with the letter F: Feather, fudge, frog, fox, flag, father, food, fairy, fly, finger, flute, fossil, foot, football, fire, fork, flower, fruit, fish, and farmer.
Gross Motor Activity: Freddie the Frog*
Place a box in the center of a small circle of children. Give one child the bean bag. Encourage the children to chant:
“Freddie the Frog went to jump on a log
And, SPLASH, he fell into the pond”.
Instruct the child to throw the bean bag into the box on the word “SPLASH”. Repeat until each child has had a turn with the bean bag.
* Activity adapted from “Freddie the Frog” activity by Pixie L. on the Preschool Rainbow website.
Preschool Books about the Letter F
Fred, Me, and the Letter F by Cynthia Fitterer Klingel and Robert B. Noyed [Child’s World, 2007]
F is for Fiesta by Susan Middleton Elya and G. Brian Karas [Putnam, 2006]
F Is For Flag by Wendy Cheyette Lewison and Barbara Duke [Grosset & Dunlap, 2002]
F-Freezing ABC by Posy Simmonds [Redfox, 1998]
Fatima and Fay Find a Bird: The Sound of F by Joanne D. Meier and Cecelia Minden [Child’s World 2004]
Alphabet recognition activities will greatly enhance preschoolers’ language learning. The key is to have fun with lesson planning and make each moment of learning fun and creative.
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