Q is for Queen Lesson

This lesson is part of a series of home preschool lessons I do for 2 and 3 year olds. Click to see How I Do Letter of the Week Lessons and the Preschool learning supplies I use.

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At the beginning of the lessons I usually show the clip from the Leapfrog Letter Factory DVD for the featured letter and we practice singing the letter sound. Then I introduce the topic for the day and we do a letter craft based around it.

Books We Read:

The Birthday Queen by Audrey and Don Wood: A sweet story about the birthday queen who makes sure everything goes right for your party. But at the end you realize she looks a lot like your mother.
The Queen of Style by Carolyn Buehner: A bored queen starts attending beauty school and forces all her subjects to let her give them makeovers.

Activities We Did:

Decorated crown templates with jewels, rhinestones, coloring, etc and then wore them

Played “The Queen Says…” (like a simplified “Simon Says”) and took turns being the queen to make commands.

-Sang “If You’re a Queen and You Know It” while doing motions and wearing crowns:

(sung to If You’re Happy and You Know It)

If you’re a king or queen and know it smile and wave
If you’re a king or queen and know it smile and wave
If you’re a king or queen and know it, then your face will surely show it
If you’re a king or queen and know it smile and wave

If you’re a king or queen and know it walk regally
If you’re a king or queen and know it walk regally
If you’re a king or queen and know it, then your face will surely show it
If you’re a king or queen and know it walk regally

If you’re a king or queen and know it put on your crown
If you’re a king or queen and know it put on your crown
If you’re a king or queen and know it, then your face will surely show it
If you’re a king or queen and know it put on your crown If you’re a king or queen and know it, do all three
If you’re a king or queen and know it, do all three
If you’re a king or queen and know it, then your face will surely show it
If you’re a king or queen and know it, do all three

-Made crowns out of playdough

Snack We Ate:

Jello Jigglers cut into Q’s, crowns, and jewels

At the end of each lesson

We always sing the alphabet song, read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and add the letter to our coconut tree.

I usually do two lessons for each letter, but only share one outline on here for the sake of time. The other lesson we did this week was Q is for Quilt. One of the highlights for the kids was making bears to tuck into bed with little paper quilts (inspired by the book Tuck Me In!).