Overview
The children will have a letter P party as they practice writing the letter P and saying the /p/ sound as in pink, plate, and pear.

Literacy Activities
Pass out paper plates and cups

• Have a few children act as waiters and pass out pink plates and cups for each child while everyone politely says, "Please pass a pink plate," emphasizing the /p/ sound.
• Invite all the children to sit down and practice writing the letter P on their plates with pink and purple markers. 
• Ask the waiters to pass out pink menus to everyone then return to their seats.
• Help the children identify the items on the menu as you point out that all of the items start with the letter P, which makes the /p/ sound. 

Order foods that start with P

• Let the children pick a menu item and pretend to order it from a waiter.
• Have the children say “please” when they order their items.
• Help the waiters serve the food items (or pictures of the food) on the pink plates.
• Pretend to pour pop into the guest’s cups.

More Practice
Play Pass the Pink Plate

• Place the picture cards on a pink plate, and then have the children sit in a circle.
• Have the children take turns choosing and identifying a picture from the plate, then passing the plate to the next person.
• Each time a card is identified, have the child point to the letter P on the card as all the children say, "/p/ /p/ /p/ ___ (e.g., pickle) starts with P!" 

Write the target letter

• Help the children write the letter P while producing the /p/ sound.
• As they write, point out the shapes included in the letter P (i.e., lines, circles and half-circles).
• Have the children draw pictures of foods that start with the /p/ sound below the letters (e.g., pizza, peanuts, pears, pickles).