Preschool Homeschool Weekly Lesson Plans, Age 3

In an attempt to organize this space a bit, I am listing the links to each week of our free homeschool preschool lesson plans for age three here. I’ll be updating this post as we complete more weeks. One thing that I would change if we were starting over would be to use the rhyme a week instruction from Webbing Into Literacy with their suggested activities from the start. All the activities we have done are based on this plan for a free DIY curriculum.

• Week 1: Letter crafts (d, o & g), salt tray writing, letter recognition, sequencing, sorting by color, matching and nature bracelets

• Week 2: Letter s craft, writing practice, letter recognition, cutting shapes, counting with playdough, sorting by size, number recognition, nature journals and popcorn science

• Week 3: Letter crafts (a & t), shopping for letters, correct grip, measuring/baking, counting book, vinegar & baking soda volcanoes, studying animal tracks and tooth brushing practice with eggs

• Week 4: Letter crafts (p & i), number cookies and nature journals

• Week 5: Letter crafts (n & r), writing practice, comparing block towers, puzzles & pattern blocks, making dough & watching it rise and dealing with emotions (anger)

• Week 6: Letter crafts (l & y), run to the shape, nature walk and dissecting a pumpkin

• Week 7: Writing and letter sound practice, hopscotch, number matching, baking and nature journals

• Week 8: Letter jump phonics game, number puzzles, making a counting book, dissolving egg shell experiment, building a grasshopper house and stringing pasta

• Week 9: Letter sounds wall, homemade playdough math mats, color sorting and nature journals

• Week 10: Letter c craft, number matching, learning about lion reintroductions and cutting practice

• Week 11: Letter w craft, memory game with numbers and drop or float experiment

• Week 12: Letter z craft, completing patterns with pattern blocks, color mixing and table manners

• Week 13: Letter v craft, weighing, making dough & seeing it rise, nature journals and cleanliness & hand washing

• Week 14: Lacing cards to act out a nursery rhyme, jigsaw puzzles and experimenting with water, ice & items found on a nature walk

• Week 15: Making books & telling stories, making toy clocks and exploring living & nonliving things

• Week 16: Rhyming, charting living & nonliving things and nature walks to look for living & nonliving things

• Week 17: Drawing cubes, sequencing craft, growing an avocado tree and making a tiny bird bath

• Week 18 – Thanksgiving

• Week 19: Playdough letters, learning left & right and parts of a plant

• Week 20 – Christmas

• Week 21 – More Christmas

• Week 22 : Start Progressive Phonics, pizza fractions and studying milipedes

• Week 23: Reading practice, symmetrical butterflies and inflating a balloon with baking soda & vinegar

• Week 24: Reading practice, graphing & estimating and making rock candy

• Week 25: Reading practice, painting, opposites and studying terrapins

• Week 26: Reading practice, double digit numbers with block towers and studying tortoises

• Week 27 : Shape drawing cubes, tortoise shell math and a color changing milk experiment

• Week 28 : Beginning sounds computer games, counting down and learning about germs

• Week 29 : Matching uppercase and lowercase letters, nonstandard measurement and sink or float science

• Week 30: Blending letter sounds, measuring weight & volume and a floating egg experiment

• Week 31: Easter

• Week 32: Phonics readers, time & temperature and reptiles

• Week 33: Earth Day – focus on trees

• Week 34: Blending letter sounds game, measuring area with blocks and color mixing with nature potions

• Week 35: Word family wheels, things that go together worksheets and oobleck science

• Week 36: Alphabetical order, number recognition and a dancing raisin science experiment