Reptiles and Amphibians

Turtles Class
Lesson Plan for the week of: November 8-12
Theme: Reptiles and Amphibians

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
*Circle Time*
Every day during circle time we will go over our daily schedule, classroom helpers, the calendar, weather, and sing songs.

Circle Time Daily Theme
(Communication Skills, Literacy Development, Celebrating Diversity) What are the differences between FROGS and TOADS? What are the differences between TURTLES and TORTOISES? What are the differences between ALLIGATORS and CROCODILES?
What makes an animal a lizard?
What are special things about SNAKES?
Creative Arts/Crafts
(Creative Arts, Communication Skills, Social Development)
Talking Frog/Toad cards
Mosaic Turtles
Close-pin Crocs
Watercolor Chameleons
Number Snake
Math
(Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
Reading and Writing 6 and 7
Counting 8
Making 8
Counting 9
Making 9

Language Arts/Writing/Reading
(Cognitive, Literacy and Fine Motor Development)
Writing “FROG” and “TOAD”
Sight words: “ME”, “MY”, and “I”
SPANISH
Sight words: “IT”, “IS”, “AM”, and “A”
Sight words: “CAN”, “BE”, and “GO”
Science
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
What does “cold-blooded” mean?
Why do turtles and tortoises have shells?
Why are alligators brown or green and have bumps on their backs?
What is a habitat?
How do snakes move without legs?!?
Sensory
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)

Feeling smooth and rough

YOGA
The sounds of water
Feeling different habitats

MUSIC
Outdoor Play Skills
(Gross Motor Development, Social Skills) Outside (or in the classroom during inclement weather), we will work on muscle development, fine and gross motor skills, coordination, and honing social skills. We utilize such equipment as tricycles, climbing structures, and swing-sets during outside time.

Music & Movement/ Creative Expression
(Gross Motor, Creative Expression)
Sing: 5 Little Froggies
Sing: Tiny Tim
Sing: Alligator on a Log
Sing: Lizards on a Log
Sing: A Silly Slippery Snake
Afternoon Activity
(Cognitive, Literacy, and Fine Motor Development, Creative Arts)
Read: From Tadpole to Frog
Read: Best Friends *Show-n-tell
Read: Snakes & Crocs & Other Reptiles
Read: Snakes & Lizards
Read: Snakes & Lizards

Safety week

Turtles Class
Lesson Plan for the week of: October 4- 8
Theme: Safety Week

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
*Circle Time*
Every day during circle time we will go over our daily schedule, classroom helpers, the calendar, weather, and sing songs.

Circle Time Daily Theme
(Communication Skills, Literacy Development, Celebrating Diversity) Car and Traffic Safety Bike, Skates, and Skateboard Safety Fire Safety Water Safety Animal and Farm Safety

Creative Arts/Crafts
(Creative Arts, Communication Skills, Social Development)
Make a stop light (green, yellow, red)
Decorate a helmet
Making fire trucks
Finger Painting Pools
Felt Animals
Math
(Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
Counting 1 - 5
Counting 1, 2 & 3
Reading and Writing 1, 2 & 3
Counting 4
Making 4
Language Arts/Writing/Reading
(Cognitive, Literacy and Fine Motor Development)
How can we be safe in a car?
How can we be safe on our bike?
Spanish
How can we be safe by water?
How can we be safe around water?
Science
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
What do the traffic signals tell us?
How do helmets protect us?
How do firemen help us?

What floats?
What animals are on a farm?
Sensory
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)

What are the sounds of traffic?
YOGA
(wear comfy clothes)
Visit from the Fire Department
Water Table play
Music
Outdoor Play Skills
(Gross Motor Development, Social Skills) Outside (or in the classroom during inclement weather), we will work on muscle development, fine and gross motor skills, coordination, and honing social skills. We utilize such equipment as tricycles, climbing structures, and swing-sets during outside time.

Music & Movement/ Creative Expression
(Gross Motor, Creative Expression)
Sing: Seat belt safety
Sing: bike safety
Sing: Fire Safety
Sing: Water safety
Sing: Animals on the Farm
Afternoon Activity
(Cognitive, Literacy, and Fine Motor Development, Creative Arts)
Read: Signs
Read: Safety Book *Show-n-tell: Safety*
Read: The Fire Cat
Read: Do Fish Drink?
Read: My Horse Book

Autumn Theme

Turtles Class
Lesson Plan for the week of: September 27th – October 1st
Theme: Autumn

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
*Circle Time*
Every day during circle time we will go over our daily schedule, classroom helpers, the calendar, weather, and sing songs.

Circle Time Daily Theme
(Communication Skills, Literacy Development, Celebrating Diversity) What is a pumpkin? What is a scarecrow? Where do apples grow? How do you like to eat corn? What are the colors of fall?
Creative Arts/Crafts
(Creative Arts, Communication Skills, Social Development)
Paper plate pumpkins
Paper bag scarecrows
Apple trees
Corn-cob print
Tissue paper collage
Math
(Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
Before and after
1st, middle, last
Left and right
Read: “Left or Right?”
Act it out math problems
How much do you know?
Language Arts/Writing/Reading
(Cognitive, Literacy and Fine Motor Development)
I’m going on a pumpkin hunt
My friend, the scarecrow
Spanish
What can we use corn for?
What things are “fall colors”?
Science
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
How does a pumpkin grow?
How do scarecrows help farmers?
What makes an apple tree special?
How does corn grow?
Why do leaves change color?
Sensory
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)

Counting pumpkin seeds
YOGA
(wear comfy clothes)
Apple taste test
Corn crazy concoction
Music
Outdoor Play Skills
(Gross Motor Development, Social Skills) Outside (or in the classroom during inclement weather), we will work on muscle development, fine and gross motor skills, coordination, and honing social skills. We utilize such equipment as tricycles, climbing structures, and swing-sets during outside time.

Music & Movement/ Creative Expression
(Gross Motor, Creative Expression)
Sing: 5 Little Pumpkins
Sing: I’m a little scarecrow
Sing: Did you ever see a tree?
Sing: Autumn song
Sing: Autumn leaves
Afternoon Activity
(Cognitive, Literacy, and Fine Motor Development, Creative Arts)
Read: “The Best Halloween Hung Ever”

Read: “The Silly Scarecrow” *Show-n-tell: Autumn*
Read: “Apples”
Read: “Big Red Barn”
Read: “Leaves, Leaves!”

Happy Birthday

Happy birthday to our new friend Caleb!!!!

Lesson Plan 9/20

Turtles Class
Lesson Plan for the week of: September 20th – 25th
Theme: SEASONS

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
*Circle Time*
Every day during circle time we will go over our daily schedule, classroom helpers, the calendar, weather, and sing songs.

Circle Time Daily Theme
(Communication Skills, Literacy Development, Celebrating Diversity) What are the four seasons? What is the weather like in the spring? What is the weather like in the summer? What is the weather like in the fall? What is the weather like in the winter?
Creative Arts/Crafts
(Creative Arts, Communication Skills, Social Development)
Seasonal trees
Spring Stories
Sandy Beaches
Watercolor leaves
Hand print snowflakes
Math
(Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
Positions in space
Inside/ Outside
Over, Under, On
Top, Middle, Bottom
Above/Below
Language Arts/Writing/Reading
(Cognitive, Literacy and Fine Motor Development)
What is your favorite season?
What is your favorite thing about spring?
What is your favorite thing about summer?
What is your favorite thing about fall?
What is your favorite thing about winter?
Science
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
Why do we have seasons?
What do trees look like in the spring?
What do trees look like in the summer?
What do trees look like in the fall?
What do trees look like in the winter?
Sensory
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)

What are the sounds of the seasons?
YOGA
(wear comfy clothes)
What are the smells of summer?
What do you see in fall?
(in places that actually has fall)
Music
Outdoor Play Skills
(Gross Motor Development, Social Skills) Outside (or in the classroom during inclement weather), we will work on muscle development, fine and gross motor skills, coordination, and honing social skills. We utilize such equipment as tricycles, climbing structures, and swing-sets during outside time.

Music & Movement/ Creative Expression
(Gross Motor, Creative Expression)
Sing: Four Seasons
Sing: It’s Spring
Sing: Hot Days
Sing: Autumn Days
Sing: Brrr Brrr Brrr
Afternoon Activity
(Cognitive, Literacy, and Fine Motor Development, Creative Arts)
Read: “The Little Duck”

Read: “Picnic” *Show-n-tell: Seasons*
Read: “Summer”
Read: “Clifford’s First Autumn”
Read: “Six Snowy Sheep”

Turtles Class
Lesson Plan for the week of: August 9-13
Theme: Opposites

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
*Circle Time*
Every day during circle time we will go over our daily schedule, classroom helpers, the calendar, weather, and sing songs.

Circle Time Daily Theme
(Communication Skills, Literacy Development, Celebrating Diversity) Short vs. Tall Big vs. Small Before vs. After In vs. Out Over vs. Under
Creative Arts/Crafts
(Creative Arts, Communication Skills, Social Development)
*Life size “me”
*Mosaic pictures
*Picture stories
*Ball in a cup
*Drawing under the table
Math
(Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
*Wiggly worm
*Greater than
*First, second, last
*Yummy numbers
*Clown circles
Language Arts/Writing/Reading
(Cognitive, Literacy and Fine Motor Development)
*What are some short and tall things?
*What are some big and small things?
*Tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end
*What are some things you can go in and out of?
*What are some things you can go over and under?
Science
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
*What makes us short or tall?
*What are some big animals and what are some small animals?
*What are the stages of seed growth (beginning, middle, and end)?
*How is it different inside from outside? *When you’re outside, what are things that are over you and things that are under you?
Sensory
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
*Comparing our people cutouts
*Big sounds vs. small sounds
*Placing numbered blocks in order (sequencing)
*Placing objects in and taking objects out of rice bin
*Following the leader: obstacle course
Outdoor Play Skills
(Gross Motor Development, Social Skills) Outside (or in the classroom during inclement weather), we will work on muscle development, fine and gross motor skills, coordination, and honing social skills. We utilize such equipment as tricycles, climbing structures, and swing-sets during outside time.
On THURSDAYS we will have SPLASH DAY outside!
Music & Movement/ Creative Expression
(Gross Motor, Creative Expression)
Song: “I’m a little teapot”
Song: “It’s a small world”
Song: “Following the leader”
Song: “Hokey-pokey”
Song: “London bridges”
Afternoon Activity
(Cognitive, Literacy, and Fine Motor Development, Creative Arts)
*Read: Smaller, bigger

*Read: Big dog little dog
*Show-n-tell
*Read: Goldilocks and the three bears
*Read: Inside, outside, upside down

*Read: Oh the things you can think!

Lesson Plan August 9th

Turtles Class
Lesson Plan for the week of: August 9-13
Theme: Opposites

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
*Circle Time*
Every day during circle time we will go over our daily schedule, classroom helpers, the calendar, weather, and sing songs.

Circle Time Daily Theme
(Communication Skills, Literacy Development, Celebrating Diversity) Short vs. Tall Big vs. Small Before vs. After In vs. Out Over vs. Under
Creative Arts/Crafts
(Creative Arts, Communication Skills, Social Development)
*Life size “me”
*Mosaic pictures
*Picture stories
*Ball in a cup
*Drawing under the table
Math
(Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
*Wiggly worm
*Greater than
*First, second, last
*Yummy numbers
*Clown circles
Language Arts/Writing/Reading
(Cognitive, Literacy and Fine Motor Development)
*What are some short and tall things?
*What are some big and small things?
*Tell a story with a beginning, middle, and end
*What are some things you can go in and out of?
*What are some things you can go over and under?
Science
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
*What makes us short or tall?
*What are some big animals and what are some small animals?
*What are the stages of seed growth (beginning, middle, and end)?
*How is it different inside from outside? *When you’re outside, what are things that are over you and things that are under you?
Sensory
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
*Comparing our people cutouts
*Big sounds vs. small sounds
*Placing numbered blocks in order (sequencing)
*Placing objects in and taking objects out of rice bin
*Following the leader: obstacle course
Outdoor Play Skills
(Gross Motor Development, Social Skills) Outside (or in the classroom during inclement weather), we will work on muscle development, fine and gross motor skills, coordination, and honing social skills. We utilize such equipment as tricycles, climbing structures, and swing-sets during outside time.
On THURSDAYS we will have SPLASH DAY outside!
Music & Movement/ Creative Expression
(Gross Motor, Creative Expression)
Song: “I’m a little teapot”
Song: “It’s a small world”
Song: “Following the leader”
Song: “Hokey-pokey”
Song: “London bridges”
Afternoon Activity
(Cognitive, Literacy, and Fine Motor Development, Creative Arts)
*Read: Smaller, bigger

*Read: Big dog little dog
*Show-n-tell
*Read: Goldilocks and the three bears
*Read: Inside, outside, upside down

*Read: Oh the things you can think!