Character Education: Self-Reliance Wonderful Word: Aerodynamic Literacy: Vocabulary and Oral Language English Vocabulary: Airplane, helicopter, jet, rocket, aerodynamic, train, car Encourage the children to use geometric shapes to make a train. Encourage children to draw pictures of city traffic (cars, buses, taxis) Literacy (Oral Language, Read Aloud) Date: Apr 3-7 Weekly letters: Ee, Jj, Oo, Qq Read Aloud: "Once Upon a Time in Dragonland." have children share their experiences with airplanes. Read Aloud: "Engine Ninety- Nine" (p.207) What kind of train is Engine 99 want to be? Greeting Circle Invite the children to sing "Little Hunk of Tin" (pg.188) Tell children this week week they will learn about transportation vehicles. Morning Message: Cars and buses transport us on roads Invite the children to sing "The Train" (p.194) Tell children that they will continue to learn about transportation. Trains move cargo quickly along the track. Encourage the children to sing "If I Had the Wings" (p.187). Morning Message: Airplanes and helicopters move people through the air. Moving and Learning Spanish Vocabulary: avion, helicoptero, avion a chorro, cohete, aerodinamica, tren, carro Phonics Encourage the children to create crayon rubbings of the weekly letters. Encourage the children to use magnetic letters to copy the word airplane. Weekly Learning Centers Invite the chilren to discuss carnival rides. Which rides pick you up and drop you off in the same place? Read Aloud: "I Saw a Ship A- Sailing" (p.209) Encourage the children to listen to information about the cargo and the crew. Read Aloud: "Monster Coaster" Invite the children to draw a picture of their favorite carnival ride. Invite the children to make a sailboat and a fan. Encourage the children to fan the boat to see which boat will sail faster. Invite the children to play "Stars and Stripes Forever" and pretend to fly. Encourage the children to sing "A Sailor Went to Sea" (p.192) Today you will learn about ships and boats. Morning message: Boats and ships move cargo quickly. Invite the children to sing "Roller Coaster Cars" (p.191) Tell the children today they will focus on carnival rides. Morning message: Everyone enjoys a carnival ride. Invite the children to copy the words airplane, train, and car using magnetic letters. Invite children to use their index fingers to copy the words boat and ship in a tray of sand. Ecourage the children to practice letter sounds. Sing " My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" (p.190) Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 LESSON COMPONENTS Class: Gard 3 Technology: Words, Words, Words and FS Math - Measure It Math: Data Analysis Day 5 Lesson Plan for Transportation Tell the children they are going to create sound effects for the song "The Wheels on the Bus"(p.193) Divide the class into two groups. Teach them the action verse "Little Red Train" Read Aloud: "Gram is Coming to My House" Ask children to look for the transportation with four wheels. Invite the children to learn how to fold paper airplanes.
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Character Education: Self-RelianceWonderful Word: Aerodynamic
Literacy: Vocabulary and Oral Language
English Vocabulary: Airplane, helicopter, jet, rock et, aerodynamic, train, car
Encourage the children to use geometric shapes to make a train.
Encourage children to draw pictures of city traffic (cars, buses, taxis)
Literacy (Oral Language, Read
Aloud)
Date: Apr 3-7
Weekly letters: Ee, Jj, Oo, Qq
Read Aloud: "Once Upon a Time in Dragonland." have children share their experiences with airplanes.
Read Aloud: "Engine Ninety-Nine" (p.207) What kind of train is Engine 99 want to be?
Greeting Circle
Invite the children to sing "Little Hunk of Tin" (pg.188) Tell children this week week they will learn about transportation vehicles. Morning Message: Cars and buses transport us on roads
Invite the children to sing "The Train" (p.194) Tell children that they will continue to learn about transportation. Trains move cargo quickly along the track.
Encourage the children to sing "If I Had the Wings" (p.187). Morning Message: Airplanes and helicopters move people through the air.
Moving and Learning
Spanish Vocabulary: avion, helicoptero, avion a cho rro, cohete, aerodinamica, tren, carro
Phonics
Encourage the children to create crayon rubbings of the weekly letters.
Encourage the children to use magnetic letters to copy the word airplane.
Weekly Learning Centers
Invite the chilren to discuss carnival rides. Which rides pick you up and drop you off in the same place?
Read Aloud: "I Saw a Ship A-Sailing" (p.209) Encourage the children to listen to information about the cargo and the crew.
Read Aloud: "Monster Coaster"
Invite the children to draw a picture of their favorite carnival ride.
Invite the children to make a sailboat and a fan. Encourage the children to fan the boat to see which boat will sail faster.
Invite the children to play "Stars and Stripes Forever" and pretend to fly.
Encourage the children to sing "A Sailor Went to Sea" (p.192) Today you will learn about ships and boats. Morning message: Boats and ships move cargo quickly.
Invite the children to sing "Roller Coaster Cars" (p.191) Tell the children today they will focus on carnival rides. Morning message: Everyone enjoys a carnival ride.
Invite the children to copy the words airplane, train, and car using magnetic letters.
Invite children to use their index fingers to copy the words boat and ship in a tray of sand.
Ecourage the children to practice letter sounds.
Sing " My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" (p.190)
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON
COMPONENTS
Class: Gard 3
Technology: Words, Words, Words and FS Math - Measu re It
Math: Data Analysis
Day 5
Lesson Plan for Transportation
Tell the children they are going to create sound effects for the song "The Wheels on the Bus"(p.193)
Divide the class into two groups. Teach them the action verse "Little Red Train"
Read Aloud: "Gram is Coming to My House" Ask children to look for the transportation with four wheels.
Invite the children to learn how to fold paper airplanes.
Invite the children to sing Invite the children to sing Encourage the children to Encourage the children to Invite the children to sing
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON
COMPONENTSDay 5
Instruct the children to grab a handful of colored cubes. Have them make a bar graph on a sheet of one-inch grid paper to show resultsof their connecting cube graph.
Math and Science
Invite the children to predict whether an open or closed flingered hand will push more water as it moves through it.
Outdoor Learning
Learning Goals
Closing Circle
Using hula hoops and blue attribute buttons encourage the children to identify which buttons are blue and small using a venn diagram.
Discuss buses and then compare them to other vehicles that wheels (cars, taxis, buses)
*Practices good habits of personal safety. *Shows awareness of areas of competence and describes self positively in what he is able to do. *Identifies equal and unequal sets.
Character Education/Social
Studies
Encourage the children to say something nice about a friend. Also when the children make mistakes or fall short-help them accept responsibility for it.
Invite children to play Red Light, Green Light. (pg.204)
*Names at least 20 upper and lowercase letters. *Asks and answers questions about the book. *Recognize at least 20 letter sounds.
*IS aware of own feelings most of the time. *Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Combines ideas for complex sentences.
Encourage the children to use a parachute to demonstrate the resistance created by air
Invite the children to set up a carnival.
With the children sing:"This sis the way I brush my teeth" Sing the song again, each time substituting a new skill: "This is the way I comb my hair… "" This is the way I dress myself…."
Give the children opportunities to do and decide things for themselvess by letting them help to clean their room, choose an activivy etc.
Ask the children to name some things they can do by themselves. How does being able to do things make them feel?
Have the children name things that they want to do all by themselves and how will they learn how to do these things?
*Demonstrates interest in creative work of others. *Creates Shapes *Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud.
*Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud. *Demonstrates interest in creative work of others. *Combines words to make a compound word.
How are buses and cars different?
Encourage the chldren to use the hula hoops and frog counters to sort the frog counters into two groups, red frogs, and small frogs.
Which carnival ride is your favorite? Why?
Of the boats we learned about today, which is the largest?
What did you learn about trains today?
How are airplanes like helicopters?
Invite children to use boxes to create a train.
Encourage children to lay on their backs and look for airplanes in the sky.
Character Education: Respect and KindnessWonderful Word: Children
Literacy: Comprehension.
English Vocabulary: Child, Special, Family
Encourage the children to draw their favorite things.
Encourage the children to draw of themselves.
Literacy (Oral Language, Read
Aloud)
Date: April 10th-14th
Weekly letters: Letters in child's name.
Read Aloud: "Fox in Socks" Encourage the children to think of rhyming words.
Read Aloud: "Fish Out of Water" Discuss what would happen if you ate too much.
Greeting Circle
Invite the children to sing "If You're Happy and You know it!" Morning Message: Be Silly!
Encourage the children to sing "Do You Know the Muffin Man?" Morning Message: You are awesome!
Encourage the children to sing "Mr. Sun" Morning Message: Be Kind!
Moving and Learning
Spanish Vocabulary: el nino, especial, Familia
Phonics
Encourage the children to practice putting the letters in their name in order.
Encourage the children to use magnetic letters to identify the letters in their name.
Weekly Learning Centers
Encourage the children to dance to "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Read Aloud: " Dr. Seuss ABC's.
Read Aloud: I Love You Just the Way you Are.
Encourage the children to draw a picture of their friends.
Invite the children to use legos to build their house.
Invite the children to use scarves to dance like a sun shining.
Encourage the children to sing, "Old MacDonald had a Farm." Morning Message: Never Give Up!
Invite the children to sing "Aiken Drum" Morning Message: Always try your best!
Invite the children to do a name puzzle.
Invite the children to decorate the letters in their name.
Encourage the chldren to practice sounding out each other's name.
Invite the children to play "Freeze Dance"
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON
COMPONENTS
Class: Gard 3
Technology: ABC MOUSE
Math: Attributes.
Day 5
Lesson Plan for Week of the Young Child
Encourage the children to use streamers and dance.
Encourage the children to dance and sing "Peel Banana"
Read Aloud: "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Compare the stages of a caterpillar to the stages of an human.
Invite the chldren to use play doh and cutters to create their favorite things.
Invite the children to sing "If Encourage the children to sing Encourage the children to sing Encourage the children to Invite the children to sing
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON
COMPONENTSDay 5
As a class create a bar graph representing the number of people in each child's family.
Math and Science
Encourage the children to build an incliner slope. Using paper towel rolls, invite the children to see which slope is the fastest.
Outdoor Learning
Learning Goals
Closing Circle
Invite the children to sort attribute buttons by color and shape.
Using the flashcards, encourage the children to put the animal life stages in order by which comes first.
*Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Demonstrates receptive vocabulary. *Counts one to ten items, with one count per item.
Character Education/Social
Studies
Read Aloud: "Shubert's New Friend" Encourage the class to think of way they can welcome new friends into the class.
Invite the children to play "Red Light, Green Light."
*Names at least 20 upper and lowercase letters. *Asks and answers questions about the book. *Recognize at least 20 letter sounds.
*IS aware of own feelings most of the time. *Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Combines ideas for complex sentences.
Encourage the children to plan a party.
Invite the children to trace each other with chalk.
Discuss the different types of families. Encourage the children to share their type of family.
MANNERS: Today we will be talking about why we should say please and thank you!
PATHS: Discuss who do we call in case there is an emergency. Discuss information the child should know to tell the person they call.
MANNERS: Review how to greet an adult. Review how to shake a person's hand.
*Demonstrates interest in creative work of others. *Creates Shapes *Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud.
*Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud. *Demonstrates interest in creative work of others. *Combines words to make a compound word.
Encourage the children to review the life cycle of a human.
Encourage the children to play grocery store. Invite a child to be the cashier and encourage the class to use one-to-one correspondence to find out how many items they are buying. Repeat.
What was your favorite thing to learn about this week?
Perform Daily Commitment Check.
What is one thing you learned about when calling for an emergency?
Name one reason to say please and/or thank you.
Invite the children to ride bikes in a parade.
Encourage the children to do an obstacle course.
Character Education: Self-RelianceWonderful Word: mysterious
English Vocabulary: Wind, waves, star, moon, sun, b ee, mysterious.
Hang string from a bookcase. Invite children to try and string the beads up the string.
Invite the children to sit around the table. Encourage the children to blow a cotton ball across the table to each other.
Literacy (Oral Language, Read
Aloud)
Date: April 17-21
Weekly letters: Uu, Xx, Yy, Zz
Read Aloud: River Talk. (p.211) Ask children why the rivers didn’t want to join the ocean.
Read Aloud: Henny Penny Story Folder. What hit Henny Penny on the head?
Greeting Circle
Sing "Rock-a-Bye-Birdie. (p.191) Tell the chldren this week they will be learning about things that move mysteriously. Morning Message: Photo Fanny Share and Tell.
Sing "Nursery Rhyme Rap" (p.188) Today we will focus on forces like gravity and magnetism.
Invite the children to sing "Niagara Falls" (p.190) Tell children today they will continue learning about mysterious movers and that today they will learn about water as a mover.
Moving and Learning
Spanish Vocabulary: viento, olas, estrella, Luna, s ol, abeja, misterioso
Phonics
Invite the children to go on a letter hunt.
Encourage the children to trace the weekly letters with their fingers.
Weekly Learning Centers
Teach the children to do the "Waggle Dance" (p.202)
Read Aloud: Twinkle, the Little Star" story folder. Why did the moon and stars prefer the night sky?
Read Aloud: Ms. Bumblebee Gathers Nectar (p.210) Ask how many flowers Ms. Bumblebee visited.
Encourage the children to use string to map out a garden. Encourage them to make a grid and then stake out in which location they plan to plant various vegetables, fruits or flowers
Invite the children to draw moons and suns using yellow and white paint.
Invite the children to dance to "Itsy Bitsy Spider"
Sing "Mister Moon" (p.190) Ask children what they know about the moon.
Sing "My Busy Garden" (p.189) What do bees move when they land on a flower?
Invite the children to think of words beginnimg with the weekly letters.
Encourage the children to pick out words beginning with the weekly letters from flash cards.
Invite the children to practice making the weekly letter sounds.
Demonstrate how it might look to walk, hop, and dance on the moon. Invite the children to "Moon Dance"
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON
COMPONENTS
Class: Gard 3
Technology: ABC and XYZ - Child identifies letters on keyboard.
Math: Direction and Language Concepts
Day 5
Lesson Plan for Mysterious Movers.
Invite the chldren to pantomime "Twirl Around" (p.204)
Invite children to dance as they think about the spider's journey down the waterspout and the gravity defying climb back up the spout
Read Aloud: Mysterious Movers. Define the word mysterious.
Encourage the children to make Ocean in a bag.
Sing "Rock-a-Bye-Birdie. Sing "Nursery Rhyme Rap" Invite the children to sing Sing "Mister Moon" (p.190) Sing "My Busy Garden"
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON
COMPONENTSDay 5
Invite the children stand at the bootom of the grid. (South) Tell the children they are birds flying north when, all of a sudden they see a garden of insects. Have one give directions and others capture insects.
Math and Science
Encourage the children to make constellations of stars on each side of their paper using star stickers.
Outdoor Learning
Learning Goals
Closing Circle
Review north, south, east and west. Point out that there are four new locations, NE, NW, SE,SW.
Pair the children with a partner. Instruct one child to draw a cube from the bag. The other child must determine where to stand on the grid in order to make the balloon move indicated by the cube color.
*Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Demonstrates receptive vocabulary. *Counts one to ten items, with one count per item.
Character Education/Social
Studies
Read : The Little Red Hen. Discuss the rewards of hard work and responsibility.
Invite children to blow bubbles. Call attention to how the bubbles float on the wind.
*Names at least 20 upper and lowercase letters. *Asks and answers questions about the book. *Recognize at least 20 letter sounds.
*IS aware of own feelings most of the time. *Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Combines ideas for complex sentences.
Take the children outdoors early on a sunny day. Have the children look at their shadow. Take the chldren outside later and have them look at their shadow again.
invite the children to examine the playground for pollen and seeds.
Read Androcles and the Lion"Discuss how Androcles and the Lion care for each other.
Introduce the term good sport. Discuss how good sportsmanship is being a good winner and a good loser who doesn’t blame other people for what happens.
MANNERS:Encourage children to look people straight in the eye when they speak to them.
Create an "I Like You" Chart for each child in the class. Encourage each child to share what they like about each individual.
*Demonstrates interest in creative work of others. *Creates Shapes *Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud.
*Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud. *Demonstrates interest in creative work of others. *Combines words to make a compound word.
What did you learn about wind today?
Place the four-quadrant grid inside a box. Encourage children to drop items one at a time from their chest into the box. Challenge children to determine in which quadrant the majority of the objects landed.
What do birds carry from one place to another?
Why do we not see the sun at night?
What is gravity?What can you do to protect the ocean and rivers?
Point out examples of gravity on the playground. (slide, swings, balls)
Build a pile of sand or dirt. Place seeds or twigs in the pile. Pour water over the pile and water the seeds and twigs travel.
Character Education: Curiousity & CompassionWonderful Word: Agriculture
Literacy: Vocabulary, Written Expression
English Vocabulary: agriculture, horse, cow, pig, hen, rooster, farmer, sheepdog
Encourage the children to illustrate the story they wrote during Read-Aloud Time.
Challenge the children to draw a farm picture.
Literacy (Oral Language, Read
Aloud)
Date: April 24-28
Weekly letters: Aa, Ff, Pp, Hh, Gg, Nn
Read Aloud: Half-Chicken Story Folder. How do real chickens, hens, and roosters move?
Read Aloud: Pedro the Curious Pig (p.218) What is in the bush?
Greeting Circle
Sing Old MacDonald (p.204) Tell children that they will be learning about animals and this week they will learn about farm animals. Morning Message: Animals begins with A.
Sing " Ten Little Piglets" (p.197) Tell children today they will learn about pigs and hogs. Morning Message: Pig begins with P.
Sing "Five Little Ducks" (p.186) Tell children that today they will learn about roosters. Morning Message: Farm begins with F.
Print Bingo on a card or setence strip. Encourage the children to copy the letters on a bone shaped name tag using letter stamps.
Invite the children to copy vocabulary words using magnetic letters.
Weekly Learning Centers
Play "Farmer in the Dell" (p.207)
Read Aloud: In the Cow's Backyard. Do Cows really nap in hammocks?
Read Aloud: Old MacDonald Story Folder.
Encourage the children to retell the story of "Old MacDonald"
Invite the children to identify the letter h and the letter c in books.
Encourage children to dance to "The New Chicken Dance" (p.193)
Invite children to sing "Did You Feed My Cow?" (p.185) Tell children today they will learn about cows. Morning Message: My horse ate hay.
Sing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (p.192) Tell the children today they will be learning about sheep and goats. Morning Message: Goat begins with G.
Invite the children to copy the word pig using letter blocks.
Encourage the children to use magnetic letters to reproduce the vocabulary words - horse and cow.
Invite the children to practice the weekly letter sounds.
Play Follow the leader using horse and cow movements (galloping, trotting, loping, and sauntering)
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON
COMPONENTS
Class: Gard 3
Technology: ABC and XYZ
Math: Whole- Part Relationships.
Day 5
Lesson Plan for Fam Animals
Invite the children to role play "Farmer in the Dell" (p.207)
Invite the children to sing and play "One Pretty Pig" (p.208)
Read Aloud: Farm Animal. Tell the children the farmer is in charge of the farm.
Invite children to hold feathers at their waist or at their chin and drop the feathers in an attempt to get them into the box.
Sing Old MacDonald (p.204) Sing " Ten Little Piglets" Sing "Five Little Ducks" Invite children to sing "Did Sing "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON
COMPONENTSDay 5
Display photo card #96 and count to confirm that a sheep as four legs. Draw a second sheep and count the number of legs there are all together. Draw a third sheep, emphasize that the last number you landed on what eight. Ask what number comes after eight.
Math and Science
Pair the children with a partner. Assign one side of the egg carton to each child. Both partners roll a number cube and place that many eggs on their side of the carton. Encourage the children to first compare the two sets and then combine their two sets for a total.
Outdoor Learning
Learning Goals
Closing Circle
Give the children a sheet of blue paper, 5 yellow pom poms, and a cup. Instruct one child to close their eyes while another child hides five pom poms under the cup. When the child opens their eyes he must determine how many pom poms are missing.
Photo cards # 26,33,92-96, 127,129, & 130. Divide cards into two colums, farm animals and not farm animals.
*Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Demonstrates receptive vocabulary. *Counts one to ten items, with one count per item.
Character Education/Social
Studies
Define the term curiousity.
Make a pathway using yarn or rope. Invite children to crow hop along the pathway.
*Uses information learned from books by describing, relating, categorizing, or comparing and contrasting. *Uses category labels to understand how words and objects relate to each other. *Produces correct sounds for at least ten letters.
*Increasingly interacts and commincates with peers to intiate pretend-play scenerios that share a common goal and plan. *Demonstrates caring and empathy for others. *Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud.
Invite the children to play horeshoes.
Encourage children to play Wolf and Sheep (p.209)
Encourage the children to create a friendship chain.
Defind the term compassion. Invite the children to make a class mural.
Discuss the importance of sharing and everybody participating in class activities.
*Demonstrates empathy and caring for others *Produces correct sounds for at least ten letters. *Participates in classroom music activities.
*Demonstrates that all people need food, clothing, and shelter. *Discusses roles and responsibilities of community workers. *Counts up to ten items and demonstrates that the last count indicates how many items were counted.
What did you learn about the farm today?
Encourage the children to predict which pile of materials (cotton balls, blocks, and craft sticks) they will be able to move with just their breath. Have the children blow as hard as they can and try to move each pile of materials.
What have you learned about farm animals this week?
How are cows and horses alike? How are they different?
What is the funniest thing you learned about pigs?
Why do farmers raise chickens?
Play Farmer May I? (p.207)Encourage children to play "Hopping Chicken" (p.207)
