Overview
The children will help Leo the Lion look for some lunch and practice saying the /l/ sound in words such as laugh, lion, and love.

Literacy Activities
Feed Leo Lion Lunch

• Place the picture cards around the room.
• Have the children look around the room for a food item.
• When the children find a picture card, have them name the picture (support as needed). 
• Tell the children to circle the L at the beginning of the word on each picture card while saying the /l/ sound.
• Have the children put the food item in the large lunch sack and say, for example, “Leo Lion loves lemons for lunch.”
• Once Leo Lion’s lunch sack is filled, have the children take turns feeding Leo Lion food from his large lunch sack.
• As they feed him, have the children point to the L in the word on the card and say, “L makes the /l/ sound.”

More Practice
Leap for L words

• Have the children think of as many words that start with the /l/ sound as they can. 
• Write the words on the board and read them together as a class.
• Read the words to the children and emphasize each /l/ sound at the beginning.
• Have the children leap every time they hear the /l/ sound.

Write the target letter

• Help the children write the uppercase letter L and lowercase letter l on small pieces of paper.
• Have the children pretend that the L and l papers are lunch food that they can feed to Leo Lion.
• Have the children produce the /l/ sound each time they feed the letter L to Leo.
• Help the children make a lunch menu for Leo listing all of the foods he likes to eat for lunch.
• Let the children write the letter L at the beginning of each word on the menu, then allow them to draw pictures next to the foods on the list.