lesson plan 7/12/2010

Turtles Class
Lesson Plan for the week of: July 12-July 16
Theme: NUTRITION

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 healthy foods? Where do fruits and vegetables grow? Where do the foods we eat come from? What is the food pyramid? What does a balanced meal look like?
Creative Arts/Crafts
(Creative Arts, Communication Skills, Social Development)
*Fruit and vegetable prints
*Tissue paper apples

*Color food bingo sheets
*Coloring food pyramid
*Making a meal on a paper plate
Math
(Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
*Count the monkeys

*Dominoes: Count the dots
*Connect the dots numbers 1-20
*How Many? – Numbers 1 through 9
*Count and write 1-10 worksheet
Language Arts/Writing/Reading
(Cognitive, Literacy and Fine Motor Development)
*Write the names of some healthy foods
*Write the names of different fruits and vegetables
*Write the names of different dairy foods *Write the names of different kinds of proteins
*Spanish: 9:30-10:00
*Write the names of different of grains
Science
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development)
*What does nutritious food look like?
*Visit the garden and look for the fruits and vegetables
*Study different kinds of grains
*Discuss the different parts of the food pyramid
*Why is it important to have a “balanced” meal?
Sensory
(Communication Skills, Cognitive and Fine Motor Development) See, smell, and feel different kinds of seeds Fruits and vegetables: soft, hard, smooth, rough, etc. See, smell, and feel different kinds of grains
Make a pyramid out of sugar cubes Make a plate of food out of play-dough
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 Like Apples and Bananas”
Song: “Vegetables”
Song: “Five Brown Buns”

Song: “Food Group Fun”
Song: “P-I-Z-Z-A”
Afternoon Activity
(Cognitive, Literacy, and Fine Motor Development, Creative Arts)
*Read: “Gregory the Goat”
*Colored pasta pics
*Read: “How Are You Peeling? (Foods with Moods)”
*Food shapes
*Show-n-tell

*Play food bingo
*Read: “The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Junk Food”
*Apple shakers
*Read: “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
*Schoolhouse Rock: The Body Machine