PRE-K SAMPLE LESSON PLAN

CHANGES TO CLASSROOM:

BLOCKS – Build a road with ramps for our city – add cars and trucks.

DRAMATIC PLAY – Add to dress-up and to home living different cookbooks.

TOYS AND GAMES – Add BINGO to snack time and two new songs.

ART – Add new colors of paint for our nature landscape paintings.

LIBRARY – Add five new books about nature to book area.

DISCOVERY – During our walk discover where animals live and discuss what they eat.

SAND AND WATER – Add seashells, rocks, and sand.

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT – Add yoga during naptime transition.

COOKING – Make playdough and make a cookbook.

OUTDOORS – Walk to the pond. 

THINGS TO DO LIST:

• Finish the “cleaning chart”.
• Make hand washing signs.
• Make BINGO game.
• Work on transition chart.
  

GROUP TIME:

Monday – Welcome song and other children’s choice songs to sing.  Calendar and weather.

Tuesday – Discuss favorite foods and health cooking, snack ideas.  Calendar and weather.

Wednesday – Discuss bugs and where they live.  Look at the different flowers outside.  Calendar and weather.

Thursday – Discuss animals we saw at the pond.  Make a chart.  Calendar and weather.

Friday – Write our own story about a trip to the pond.  Calendar and weather. 

STORY TIME:

Monday – Read the book Jungle Trek.

Tuesday – Read the book Snacks and Other Reptiles.

Wednesday – Read the book The Very Quiet Cricket.

Thursday – Read the book Winnie the Pooh’s A – ZZZZZ.

Friday – Read the book Eye Spy A Panda. 

SMALL GROUP ACTIVITIES:

Monday – Make our own nature landscape picture with sponges and paint.

Tuesday – Work on Owl Cookbook.

Wednesday – Do a Nature Scavenger Hunt.

Thursday – Practice Yoga in the gym or in our classroom.

Friday – Continue working on our Owl Cookbook. 

SPECIAL ACTIVITIES:

Monday – Practice Yoga indoors and outdoors.

Tuesday – Make edible playdough with nature cutouts.

Wednesday – Go on a nature walk to the pond.

Thursday – Play Nature BINGO at snack.

Friday – Pick out a recipe to cook.