Apples Lesson Plan for Infant and toddlers

I am going to start posting hopefully at least a couple of time a week. But for now I will be posting my Infant/ Toddler lesson plans!

Infant LESSON PLAN THEME:  Apples Week of: September 21, 2014   Letter: A  Color: Green
Date	Language/ Listening	Creative Activities, Sensory	Learning from the World	Physical Development
Mon.	Song: I  like to eat apples and bananas	Green paint bag	Apples grow on trees.	Pom Poms and coffee can
Tues.	Rhyme: Say say oh playmate	Apple painting	I can eat apples. ( ASL: Eat)	1,2,3 apple steps
Wed.	Book: In My Family.	Letter a handprint art	Where did the apple go?	Velcro apple bucket
Thurs.	Book: School days.	Bucket full of green items (sensory play)	Apples taste sweet, sour, etc…	Roll like a bucket full of apples.
Fri.	Finger play: 10 little apples hanging from a tree.	Apple finger gloves.	On the tree I see…	Reach up, Reach down

Books Lesson Plan

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Lesson Plan

Week:  February 24, 2014                               Theme: Books

Color:  yellow              Letter: O                    

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Morning Meet	How do we handle books?	What stories are your favorite to read?	What are characters, what do they do?	How is your story different from your friends	Week Review
Outdoor Play	Chalk and tracing	__	Create a story with items found outside	__	Racing
Free Play	Tweezers and letter matching	__	__	Dress up like your favorite character	__
Literacy/  Language	Book: Lion King	Book: Josie and the Lucky Number 7	Book:  Space Shuttle	Book: Mirror Me	Book: Animals in the Zoo
Daily Activity	Mosaic letter O	Cover page	Story and pictures	Finish up your story	Make your book

Paper Mache Moon

I was so super excited to post this activity! We are doing Nursery Rhymes this week. Today we were going to make a large moon for the classroom. I decided on a small balloon for each kiddo to make their own paper mache moon.
We first had a shredding party tearing the tissue paper apart. Once the glue is out this is impossible!

Next we dumped elmers glue on a plate added water and mixed it so it was a little thinner. Each kid grabbed their own large sponge and began applying the glue to their balloon. We did a few layers of tissue paper then glue and ended with glue.

Finally we hung them in the sun to dry.

This was a long activity that held everyones interest.
WARNING: very messy activity use a surface covering in work space.

They turned out great!

Nursery Rhymes Lesson Plan

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Lesson Plan

Week:  February 18, 2014                               Theme: Nursery Rhymes

Color:  Blue                 Letter: R                     

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Morning Meet	Presidents’ Day	Letter R- Sounds and words	Nursery Rhyme Sing off	Tell us your favorite nursery rhyme	Week Review
Outdoor Play	__	Spider crawl	How far can you jump?	Sheep number match	Chalk: Nursery rhyme art
Free Play	__	Spider web and spider sensory play	__	Letter R and oats	__
Literacy/  Language	__	Book: Little Miss Muffet	Rhyme: Hey diddle, diddle	Bah, Bah, Black sheep	Humpty Dumpty
Daily Activity	__	Spider Art Work	Decorate our classroom moon	Cotton ball sheep	Humpty Dumpty activity

A Color of His Own Activity

We are behind a day because the kids decided to make friendship bracelets yesterday. That is how we do things. We try to get to all of the activities on our lesson plan but some change with request of the kids.
Today we read A Color of His Own, by Leo Lionni. I love this story and found a great activity online to make a wipe off board with a chameleon on it. They used finger paints to color it. When the kid is finished it they could wipe it off.
I decided to use what I had because this is a great art activity and science fun. I decided to use tape on the table and draw in permanent marker a chameleon for each kiddo. If you have contact paper that may be easier.
Next we used shaving cream to add to the fun and I put drops of finger paint in the shaving cream.
The kids mixed and painted for a long time.

J realized that adding more of one color changed the color making it lighter and darker. 

This was a great activity that all ages can enjoy!

Pretzels and letter practice

Catching up on this weeks fun. We are focusing on the letter F for our week theme on Friends.
Snack time is always fun at this school. We always find a way to incorporate math, letter, story time, and creativity. While eating our cheese it snack mix older A and J begin making pictures out of the different snack pieces. We then turned it into a game where each one of us would take turns calling out a letter and we would make it with our snack pieces.

They had fun making then eating it. We ate almost a whole box of cheese its!

Who says we can't play with food?

Friends Lesson plan for Valentine's

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Lesson Plan

Week:  February 10, 2014                               Theme: Friendship

Color:  Red                  Letter: F                     

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Morning Meet	Letter F- Words and sound	What is your favorite activity to do with friends	All friends are different and we are all special	Friends work together	Week Review
Outdoor Play	Obstacle course for friends	Friendship train	Jump rope and counting	__	Shadow dancing
Free Play	Cut out pictures of people in magazines	Letter F tracing in red rice	__	Linking chains	__
Literacy/  Language	Song: Make new friends	Book: Zack’s Alligator Goes to School	Book:  A Color of His Own	Book: A Rainbow of Friends	Book: Big Dog Little Dog
Daily Activity	Decorate the letter F with picture cut outs	Friendship Flag	Chameleon shaving cream fun	Friendship flag ( group art work)	Make Valentine’s Day card