Letter P

Sound-Loaded Books

Initial P/p Books Author
If you Give a Pig a Pancake Laura Numeroff
Little Pea Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Peace Train Cat Stevens
Pete & Pickles Berkeley Breathed
Pete the Cat (Series) Eric Litwin
Pig the Pug (Series) Aaron Blabey
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! David McPhail
Please, Puppy, Please Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee
Puppies in the Snow James Young
Final p Books Author
Great Day for Up Dr. Seuss
Little Blue Truck Alice Schertle
Where Is the Green Sheep? Mem Fox & Judy Horacek
Sheep Go To Sleep Nancy E. Shaw
Sheep in a Jeep Nancy E. Shaw
Sheep in a Shop Nancy E. Shaw
Sheep on a Ship Nancy E. Shaw
Split! Splat! Amy Gibson
Ten Apples Up On Top! Dr. Seuss
Today I will Nap Mo Willems
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt Kate Messner

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Activities & Snacks

Activities:

  • Finger paint polka dots with purple/pink paint
  • Go on a picnic with foods that begin with the /p/ sound (popcorn, pizza, punch, pudding, pie, pancakes, peanuts, pickles, potato chips, popsicle, pretzels)
  • Have a parade!
  • Make a large pocket out of paper.  Then pull pictures of objects that begin with the /p/ sound out of the paper pocket.
  • Make up your own short stories in reference to “If You Give a Pig a Pancake”.  Use the carrier phrase, “If you give a pig a ____”.  Add different words that begin with the /p/ sound.
  • Paint the letter ‘p’ with pudding paint!
  • Pin the tail on the pig!
  • Place pennies in a piggy bank.  Count the pennies as you put them in or take them out.
  • Play at the park!
  • Play with green play dough.  Make make peas, pea pods or pickles!
  • Pop popcorn!
  • Pop some bubbles!
  • Plant a real or pretend garden!  Use the following ‘p’ words: pail, potatoes, peppers, peanuts, pumpkins pickles, peas, pears, petunias, petals, pineapple

Snacks:

  • Make some muddy pigs with pink marshmallow and chocolate pudding!
  • Pancakes (shaped like the letter ‘p’)
  • Peaches
  • Peanut butter
  • Peanuts
  • Pears
  • Peas
  • Pickles
  • Pie
  • Pineapple
  • Pistachios
  • Pita bread
  • Pizza
  • Pomegranate
  • Popcorn
  • Popsicle
  • Potato chips
  • Pretzels
  • Pudding
  • Pumpkin Pie