PRESCHOOL PIGLET LESSON PLAN

Theme: Month: December Manipulative/ Science Sensory Blocks Math Making the Polar Express When we make our Snow‐ can you make aMaking Santa's workshop train tracks peppermint play dough we snowman with 3 balls? using big blocks and Cutting snowflakes with will be mixing, measuring, little people scissors touching and smelling the Shaving cream ‐ drawing Wrapping a Christmas present ingredients. Santa with one finger Making a house for Santa Beading a red and green and his reindeer to land necklace Individual buckets with Tinsel, garland and other on and deliver the presents Christmas puzzles different textures: dry decorations‐ describing Button patterning colored pasta, colored rice, the difference between City blocks making a town Making a house using wood shavings and buttons them magnets Making boxes with magnets Peg board Christmas trees Continued……. Red gak Magnetic dolls Adding different size cups Making trains with Making a and spoons one day. Goop; cornstarch and water magnetic shapes on the using Trios When it dries the texture magnet board. (The Little SScrewscrews and ScrewdrivScrewdriversers Adding pepeopleople and animanimalsals changes Engine ThThatat CoCould)uld) ABC puzzles another day. Doll House As we use different Building with our huge As well as using our senses. textures: snow, rice, play domino blocks dough, wood shavings, dry Making goop; the changes pasta, water, ingredients of Color shape blocks: what in texture as we add water any kind……taste; if shapes can we use to build, to the cornstarch, how it possible, smell, shape, cars, trucks, trains, robots, looks on our hands, how color, feel/touch, sound and putting together shapes it drips from our hands, ect. to make other shapes

Writing/ABC's Art and Easel Stories Cooking

Tracing the letters: Construction paper Santa The man Gingerbread House t‐for tree, J‐ for , Decorating the Star of David The Biggest Christmas Tree b‐for baby, S‐for Santa Gluing cotton balls on a Ever We are going to make ABC Bingo stocking Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear peppermint play dough. Decorating a Dutch Clog Merry Christmas Everybody Finding the magnetic letter Coloring a Tannenbaum hat Clifford's Christmas Decorating that matches your friends Gluing jewels on a party hat Dora's Christmas Christmas tree name Making a Swedish hat All I Want For Christmas Tissue paper bell Latkes & Applesauce ornaments; Letter rubbings; Can you Handprint Christmas tree Light the Candles cinnamon, glue and bake rub the word Santa? Puzzle ppiece wreath La Pinata Gingerbread cookies The Mitten Tree Alphabet puzzles Gluing tissue paper, ribbon Corduroy's Christmas Surprise ect. at the easel Careful, Santa! Tracing our names Gluing the Little Lost Donkey Painting X‐mas lights Jingle Bell Mice Practice writing our names Painting X‐mas decorations Red Boots Christmas on dry erase boards Sticker collage at easel The Night Before Christmas Easel with crayon & chalk Tracing basic shapes with Handprint angel different materials; blocks, Painting a Christmas tree cups, magnets, tape rolls Computer Library/ Large Muscle Song and Dance Literacy Activities O' Tannenbaum Caillou We will have a variety of Exercising: Rudolph shape recognition store ads in the room for Frosty the Snowman the kids to read Animal yoga poses I'm a little Snowman letter recognition Winter Wonderland Talking about what we Sit ups Noel matching; colored shapes want for Christmas and Deck the halls (puzzle picture) what we would like to buy Jumping jacks Santa's coming to town for others Jingle Bells shapes to picture matching Squats There was a little snowman Jogging in place; we will Silent Night Care Bears talk about what we see; Dancing I saw mommy kissing Santa matching bears a neighbor, friend, animal, Do you hear what I hear (Telling stories, sharing) Following teachers; dancing Away in a manager catching hearts We Three Kings Felt board nursery rhymes Riding bikes Hark the Harold Angels sing Using puppets with stories Climbing the climber Must be Santa The Drummer Boy Telling oorur oonwn stories Playiingng catch Up on the House with felt pictures: stars, shapes, trees, animals Basketball Musical chairs Songs from our song book: Spaghetti, Alice, One finger one thumb and many more

ASL and Spanish Play Dough Dramatic Play Bible

Mary and Joseph living 1. The angel told Mary that Christmas ‐ Navidad Peppermint play dough; center Jesus is God's special gift ‐robes, towels, belts, ‐ What surprises you? Winter ‐ Invierno rolling balls to make scarves, food, dishes, ‐ Thank God for his special snowmen, using ‐ blocks and tools gift Weather ‐ Inviernar cutters: trees, cross, star, pretending to be 2. Growing closer to Jesus , sock, carpenters like Joseph ‐ How was Jesus' birthplace Snow ‐ Nieve and some tools: rollers, different than where babies pizza cutters, and are born today? Snowy ‐ Nevado spatula's ‐How did Mary and Joseph Building stories with travel to ? With plates and pans people, blocks and animals 3. The Sheppard's were glad

Such as: Billy Goats Gruff, that Jesus is God's special With popsicle sticks 3 Little Pigs, 3 Bears, gift Christmas/Bible stories A prayer to thank God for Play dough with animals (child's choice; using their sending Jesus creativity; thinking skills) 4. The Sheppard's praised God Play dough with blocks for sending Jesus. Let's share the wonderful news about Jesus with each other

Special Notes Saint Lucia Day Dec 13 St Nicolas Day Dec 6