Did you know you can enrich your preschooler’s early childhood education with just a few simple preschool activities at home?

Hi, I’m Monica, an Early Childhood Education Certified Teacher. I started out as a homeschool preschool mom, but quickly learned I have a passion for helping other moms and teachers with their preschool at home efforts. Now I teach other moms how to preschool at home through my online preschool program: Visual Montessori.

I spent over five years developing a preschool learning curriculum for my two boys and I used the principles of Montessori, and everything I learned about childhood development, to create a preschool learning curriculum based upon the 12 Sensitive Periods for children between the ages of birth and six years old as outlined in Montessori.

If you want to enrich your preschooler’s early childhood education with preschool activities that will help them learn the alphabet, you are in the right place!

5 FREE Preschool Worksheets for Preschool Alphabet Letter A

Here I am sharing 5 FREE Preschool Worksheets for Preschool Alphabet Letter A. It’s a sample pack from our family’s preschool at home program, Visual Montessori, based upon the 12 sensitive periods as outlined in Montessori.

If you enjoy the FREE 5 Preschool Worksheets for Preschool Alphabet Letter A, you may also like the entire Letter A Printable Pack, it includes 30 activities focused on learning the letter “A” and short words that start with the letter “A”. Click here to purchase the entire Letter A Printable Pack online. By the way, the Letter A Printable Pack is FREE on TeachersPayTeachers. If you like the pack please give it a rating and follow me on TpT. You’ll be the first to know when I create new products or publish a sale!

Three Ways to Engage with the HappyandBlessedHome.com Preschool at Home Learning Curriculum

There are three ways to join our family in our preschool at home efforts and all three are included in this post about the Letter A.

Level 1: FREE – Sign up for my FREE Printables as a member of HappyandblessedHome.com. Whenever I send out a free printable, easy recipe, or idea for family fun, the post will go straight to your in-box. Plus, you always have access to these FREE 5 Packs of Alphabet Letter Printables whenever you visit me online.
Level 2: Al la Carte – If you love the 5 Page Packs of Alphabet Printables, you will absolutely love the full packs with 30+ activities for each letter of the alphabet, you can purchase the complete 30+ Activity Packs online in my store at Teachers Pay Teachers.
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How we set up our Preschool at Home for Preschool Activities

With our morning board set-up, we’re going to re-start our study of the alphabet with a new focus on reading. If your child already knows their ABCs – then you’re right where we are at and this will be a great series of posts for you. For our Letter A post from last year, which includes sensory ideas and set-up for an intro to the letter A click here: Letter A.

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Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter A

My son recognizes letters easily and has expressed an interest in reading for some time now. This year our Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter A signifies our new start into “reading” territory. 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.
In order to put together the best set of activities that I could for my son, I’ve been doing some lesson planning. 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.

Montessori Preschool Lesson Plans

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.

To plan for what I would do this week, I considered the areas that Montessori suggests as well as my son’s strengths and weaknesses. He’s not ready to do a word-find puzzle or unscramble letters but he has shown a tremendous propensity for memorizing and he loves books and papers. He also loves to play with blue tack. I tailored our activities around sensory type learning as well as fine and gross motor skills that match his activity levels.

I spent some time on Pinterest looking for things that might be good for our letter A 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. My 20-month old is too young for this study – but I thought he made a very cute instructor!

Weekly Preschool Activities

Just to give you an idea of what our week looks like, my Lesson Plan for our Letter A Activities looks like this:

Monday: Morning Board exercises, Flashcards, Write out and spell words, use Sight Word cards in favorite book

Tuesday: Play-date, Gross Motor Skills, Apple Tree Game, Reading

Wednesday: Host Moms Group, Play with other Preschoolers, More Reading, Activities from Letter A Printable Pack

Thursday: MOPS Meeting – includes Bible based story-time, craft, and fine and gross motor skills

Friday: Morning Board exercises, Tracing Letter A, Hop-To Game, more reading and highlighting letter A sight words in books, craft I usually only have maybe one social activity in a week, so this week is an exception. But it just gives you an idea for how we fit it in!

How we use the Preschool Circle Time Morning Board

Our routine is to use the morning board two or three times 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 little guy. 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. We’ve completed the alphabet before but the emphasis now is on reading. Hence, you’ll see a focus on increasing vocabulary and sight words in upcoming posts.

Teaching Character through a Preschool at Home

To supplement my plan, I also use God’s Little Explorers. Our letter A coincides with week 3 in GLE. In God’s Little Explorer’s the bible story for the week of letter A study is the story of Adam and Eve. My favorite activity (used to emphasize the story of Adam and Eve) is one where you write “invisible” sins on a white piece of paper using a Q-tip and lemon juice. You let the paper dry throughly and once it’s completely dry you hold it over a lamp or other heat source and as the paper gets warmer the words will appear. You talk with your children about how God could see Adam and Eve’s sin – it wasn’t hidden form Him. Stacie has some wonderful ideas. Click here to learn more about God’s Little Explorers.

What’s Inside the Complete Letter A Printable Pack?

I’ve created a Learn to Read Letter A Preschool activity pack with an emphasis on vocabulary, reading and fine and gross motor activity. The FUN pack includes 30 activities for preschoolers. Things like:

4 Coloring Pages
5 Tracing Pages
14 Flashcards with short words that start in “a”
Hop-to or Wall-ID Game, The game works just like the “jumping beans” featured in this post: Letter J
Apple Tree Game and Math Game
3 Do-a-dot Pages
2 Pages of flashcards with letter “A” sight words – focus on the shorter words first

We did some sponge painting for our apple. I poured sugar over a the red letter A in a cake pan to create a traceable sensory bin. Our apple tree game using blue tack (my son’s favorite). You can use the apple tree game for counting apples, matching numbers or letters (by writing letters or numbers on the belly of the apple) or for word recognition of simple words. Write the word on the apple and ask your child to transfer the apple with the word “arm” on it to the basket.

Click here for your letter A pack: Learn to Read Preschool Alphabet Letter A. This provides a great example of what types of printables you can receive when you follow Happy and Blessed Home.

FREE Preschool Worksheets from my Preschool Alphabet Series

For each and every letter of the alphabet, you can access 5 FREE Preschool Worksheets for each letter of the alphabet. The worksheets are designed to illustrate what you can find in my printable packs online at TeachersPayTeaches. But if you truly want an awesome at home preschool experience, you’ll want to sign up for my online preschool at home program at VisualMontessori.com.

Moms who preschool at home with VisualMontessori.com gain access to 30+ training videos, 1,300 pages of printables that cover all 12 sensitive periods for learning from birth through age six, my Montessori preschool lesson plans, a resource guide for each and every letter of the alphabet, and online support.

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Originally Published Oct. 22, 2013