Reading: Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type, Baby Eyelike: Circle board book
Color/Glue/Stickers: Cow coloring page
Activities: Make a cow paper bag puppet
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Showing posts with label Lesson Plans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lesson Plans. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Tuesday - Caterpillars
Reading: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Color/Glue/Stickers: Caterpillar coloring page
Activities: Make a caterpillar like the one shown here.
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Monday - Cats!
Reading: We aren't able to make our Monday trip to the library today due to the Columbus Day holiday - hopefully, we'll make it there tomorrow! For today, we've chosen some of our favorites to read: Same, Same, The Little Red Caboose and Silly Sally Went To Town
Color/Glue/Stickers: Choose from one of the cat coloring pages here
Activities: Make kitty masks from round paper plates
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Thursday - Bread!
Reading: Bread and Jam for Frances
Color/Glue/Stickers: Print of two bread coloring pages and cut out (could use brown construction paper), Cut out some green lettuce, some red tomatoes, and some pink ham - make "sandwiches" together!
Activities: Make PB&J together, pointing out the bread
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Wednesday - Bus!
Reading: The Wheels on the Bus, Magic Schoolbus books
Color/Glue/Stickers: Bus coloring page - draw people on board!
Activities: Make a bus from a shoe box - you can make it as simple or detailed as you like - here are some basic instructions; then have fun pulling stuffed animals and dolls around on the bus! You could also look into actually riding your city's bus as an outing
Color/Glue/Stickers: Bus coloring page - draw people on board!
Activities: Make a bus from a shoe box - you can make it as simple or detailed as you like - here are some basic instructions; then have fun pulling stuffed animals and dolls around on the bus! You could also look into actually riding your city's bus as an outing
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Tuesday - Bears!
Reading: Bartholomew Bear and Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?,
Color/Glue/Stickers: Bear coloring page - see, bears have to sleep just like we do!
Activities: Eat bear-shaped graham crackers or gummy bears!, Use black construction paper and cut out a yellow moon to glue on it; have your kiddo stick foil star stickers all over the "night sky", emphasizing that stars are up in the sky at night with the moon - sing Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Friday - Review
Reading: Pick favorites from the week, Little Bunny on the Move
Color/Glue/Stickers: The Letter B coloring page
Activities: Make little toothpick flags to stick in bananas for snack or lunch (little boats!), make playdough or use blue playdough to roll out and make letter B's
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Thursday, October 1, 2009
How to Promote Learning with Jello Jigglers!
Today, we made Jello Jigglers - in the shape of circles, squares, and triangles! I would name the shape and Bubba would pick it up and eat it - and, guess what! He got every shape correct!
This got me to thinking that I should keep my eye out for cookie cutters in the shapes of numbers and letters, too. This could be a great weekly review tool for Fridays. Different colors of Jello can be used based on the weekly theme, too!
Thursday - Boxes!
Reading: I couldn't find any books specifically on boxes but thought that these looked interesting: This Little Light of Mine, Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? (notice that there's a sound for the butterfly from yesterday!)Color/Glue/Stickers: Cover a cake mix box, jello box, butter box, etc. with paper and let your toddler cover the outside of the box with stickers to decorate it!
Activities: Fill a small box with shredded paper or packing peanuts. Hide a few small toys inside and let your toddler dig through to find them. You could also have two small boxes and practice emptying the contents of on into the other.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Promote learning on your patio door!
I wanted to try to find a place where I could put visual reinforcements of what we're learning each week. It had to be something at Bubba's eye level so that whenever he sees it, he can be reminded of his shapes or numbers or letters.
I was at the dollar store and came across some great window clings for shapes and numbers. I couldn't find anything for letters but did find a template set of ABCs - the B you can see in the picture.
Each morning when he gets up, we go into the kitchen and review what we're learning for the week! It was so rewarding the other night when Daddy asked him where the 'B' was and Bubba walked right over and pointed to the letter on the window!
Wednesday - Butterfly
Reading: Butterfly Garden
Color/Glue/Stickers: Butterfly coloring page - where do the butterflies fly?
Activities: Make butterfly finger puppets and pretend to make them fly
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Tuesday - Boats!
Reading: Ships and Boats, I.Q. Goes to the Library (not related to boats but looks like a cute book!)
Color/Glue/Stickers: Boat coloring page - where do we find boats (on the water)
Activities: Make and float foil boats in the bathtub
Monday, September 28, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
Friday: Review!
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Reading: Pick a couple of favorites from the week!
Color/Glue/Stickers: The Letter A coloring page - count the apples!
Activities: We got a Thomas the Train DVD from the library that we'll be watching today; we might also review some of the activities from earlier in the week such as paper airplanes and egg carton ants
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Thursday: Apples
Click here to read my plan to help keep my 20-month-old entertained during the day! Reading: I couldn't find a book at the library that I liked about apples so I got a couple about this week's color - red: The Red Truck, Red: Colors in the Natural World
Color/Glue/Stickers: Apple coloring page, I also plan to draw a picture of a tree and then let Bubba stick some red circle stickers on for the apples, pointing out that apples grow in trees
Activities: I'll give bubba a scrubber and a bowl of water and show him how to scrub clean the apples - then we'll eat them!, we'll also be eating applesauce and drinking apple juice today
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
A is for Autumn!
As you know, yesterday was the first day of Autumn! I love this time of year when the weather turns cool and crisp and the leaves start changing colors! I'm looking forward to sweatshirts and football and apple cider and pumpkins and ... well, I could keep going, but I think you get my point.
Since our theme this week's themes start with the letter A, I thought it perfect to incorporate Autumn into our lesson plans.
Today is a bright, sunny day so I plan to walk with the kiddos to the park. Along the way, we'll look for some leaves of different colors and Bubba can collect them in the paper bag that we'll bring. When we get home, I'll put his leaves between two pieces of wax paper, iron the paper under a towel, and hang his collage of leaves on the patio door. There's a great tutorial for making wax paper leaf presses here.
The rest of the week, he can see the light filter through the window around his leaves and it gives me a great platform to explain a bit about the seasons! I'll post a picture of our creation later this week.
Match the Letters
As each week's theme includes a letter, I have made a set of letters from construction paper for Bubba to match.
To make the letters:
I traced upper-case letters onto 3 different sheets of colored construction paper. You could do more colors if you would like. I just don't want to overwhelm Bubba right at the start. Then I cut out the letters. I covered each of my letters with masking tape for added durability (it helps to make your letters a small enough size to fit on a piece of masking tape).
I would recommend setting aside some time to do several letters of the alphabet at once. This will save both time and construction paper!
You could also make this matching game with shapes or numbers.
Wednesday: Airplanes!
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Reading: The Airplane Ride, The Airplane Alphabet Book, The Big Book of Airplanes
Color/Glue/Stickers: Airplane coloring page (point out how the plane is in the sky - if you have star stickers, this would be a great picture to stick them to!)
Activities: Paper airplanes to fly (click here to learn how to fold airplanes), we got the video "Elmo's Shapes and Colors" from the library so we'll be watching that to do some reinforcement in those areas, learn/review what an airplane "says"
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