Core Knowledge Preschool Weekly Plan

KINDIEPREP PRESCHOOL WEEKLY PLANS

TEACHER Mrs. Yach CLASS Three’s 5 day WEEK OF 4/6/2015 THEME Animal Habitats!/The Letter Xx! LESSON PLAN # 29 Teacher Guided Activities Daily Schedule Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday The Antarctic & Arctic Grasslands Rainforest Forest & Mountains No School/Conferences Routine: Routine: Routine: Routine: Calendar/Jobs/ Calendar/Jobs/ Calendar/Jobs/ Calendar/Jobs/ 8:15-8:30 Arrival Morning Counting/etc. Counting/etc. 8:30-8:50 Morning meeting Counting/etc. Counting/etc. Large Group * Introduce the * Review our American 8:50-9:00 Clean up/Wash * Introduce the letter * Review sight words rainforest pictures and Academy Manners Xx, the sound and list 1. hands explain the parts of a with a focus on #3. writing it. 9:00-9:15 Snack/Prepare rainforest. centers * Review our letters * Play our phonemic * Use tangram shape * Review what we have 9:15-10:25 Centers/Small that we have learned awareness game pieces to review all learned this week by group previously and focus on “Mariposa” with a shapes and create creating a poster! Then Afternoon what words have Xx in review of all of the pictures/designs with take a trip to the 4- 10:25-10:50 Large group Large Group activity them! sounds A-X as a group! them. Use tangrams to year-old classrooms to 10:50-11:00 Clean up create simple patterns. see their habitat 11:00-11:20 Morning recess projects. 11:20-11:30 Wash hands * Xx dobbers sheet * Write our full names * Animal habitat * Animal number 11:30-12:00 Lunch * Xx and our favorite in correct Spalding. worksheet, cut & color. sheet, color and trace. 12:00-1:30 Rest time animal journal. * Paint with tall grass! * Listen to the sounds * Paint with branches 1:30-1:45 Snack Small * Paint with ice cubes * Journal a grassland of the rainforest while and pine cones. painting at the easels! 1:50-2:00 Literacy Group/Centers and markers. animal! * Put on a forest animal * Free choice on the puppet show! 2:00-2:20 Afternoon recess * Use markers, maps, * Animal books in and dollhouse people. library. carpet. * Do the letter Xx in 2:20-2:45 Music & * Put together the * Number packets. * iPads. our letter packets! Movement/Motor Skills world puzzle on the * Pre-writing * Journal the rainforest. * Use the scale to 2:50-3:00 Pack up carpet. worksheets. * Sort items by shape, weigh various animals. 3:00 Dismissal * iPads * Free choice in size, and color at the art * Complete final * Stay in our “igloo” in housekeeping. table. assessments. housekeeping! * Block on the carpet. * Dress up. * Write friends’ names. Read: North Pole South Read: Animalia by: Read: Apes and Read: Whistling in the Pole by: Nancy Smiler Graeme Base before Monkeys by: Barbara Woods by: Selina Children’s Levinson and Follow discussing all of the Taylor and Koala Lou Young and Wonders of Literature Read- the Polar Bears by: animal habitats with a by: Mem Fox to the Forest by: Francene Aloud Sonia W. Black before venn diagram to see discuss how the Sabin before making a discussing the Arctic. how they are woodlands and poster of the animals. diff./same. rainforest are different. * Penguin waddle relay * Go outside to observe * Take a “field trip” to * Sing our favorite race! Participate to prairie dogs in their the west side of our animal songs as a Specials improve our GMS! natural habitat and school to review group at the end of the draw our observations. “NSEW” by using the day. Include mountains! instruments with our songs!