Introduce the letter x to your students through real x-rays and a xylophone if possible. If you have a music class in your building, you can talk to the music teacher about a field trip to visit and see the xylophone and learn how to play it. If you have x-rays, you can turn off the lights in the room and use a flashlight or lamp to show the film, or you can use an overhead projector.
Making an Alphabet Book
For the letter x, have students make an x ray picture and put a border of x’s around the edge of the page. To make an X-ray, students will need chalk and black construction paper. They can either trace their hand or their foot (take the shoe off first) on the paper or then draw in the bones to make it look like a real x-ray.
Snacks that Teach the Letter X
Make x-tra special cookies for the students to enjoy on letter X day. When making the cookies, form the dough into an x shape. Be sure to make the dough uniform so that the cookies do not fall apart when baking. You can decorate the cookies with colored sugar to add a bit of color as well. You can also serve x-cellent punch, by either making your own with ginger ale and lime sherbet or purchase fruit punch.
Activities that Teach the Letter X
Teach students the letter X by having them make stick x’s. With either pop-sickle sticks or sticks from a nature walk, have students glue them together in the shape of an x. You can have the students practice their other letters as well by having them form the letters with the sticks. Carefully display the stick letters or have them decorate an alphabet box to store them in.
Create a treasure map where x marks the spot that you have hidden an x treasure box. You can fill the treasure box with stickers or other small prizes to pass out among the students. Have the students work together to read the map and search for the buried treasure. If you can go outside, you can even bury the treasure and have the children dig it up. It may be easiest to bury the treasure in the sandbox.
See how many other words the students can come up with that start with the letter x, or have the letter x in them. Have students make a full body x-ray if you want, by taping enough pieces of black construction paper together for one child to lie down on. Using chalk, trace the body of the child and then have the students work together to add the rest of the bones to the x-ray body.
Learn how to teach the other letters of the alphabet.
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