Lesson Planning with Me!: November 2012

Lesson Planning with Me

Hello! I teach an integrated preschool classroom, which means I am responsible for students ages three to five with special needs of all types as well as typical developing students. My students range in ability from a toddler to a typical kindergartener. Therefore, my activities must be able to reach a wide range and be easily adjusted for multiple ability levels.

I created this blog as a way to keep track of the fantastic ideas I have gathered over the years. Because I just randomly add activities to the blog, use the search, standard list, or theme list on the left side to find the activities you are after!

I also create and sell resources that can be found at TeachersPayTeachers and Teacher's Notebook.

Friday, November 30, 2012

If You Take a Mouse to the Movies

I just completed this unit. It is available on the Teachers Pay Teachers site here. The activities included are:

Circle Time
-Microphones to use while singing Christmas carols

Literacy
-2 story sequencing activities
-comprehension questions
-writing prompt
-writing your own circular story
-stringing popcorn (alphabetical order)
-blank popcorn pieces (sight words or CVC words)

Math
-stringing popcorn (numerical order)
-blank popcorn pieces for you to customize own counting
activities (count by 2s, 5s, 10s; addition or subtraction
sentences)
-Making sets (1-10 ornaments on trees; 11-20 popcorn in
buckets)
-Addition mat with ten frame
-Patterns
-Size sequencing
-Memory game (matching pieces of popcorn to numeral)

Fine Motor
-Create own ornaments (could be given as gifts to parents)
-Popcorn stringing
-Fort building

Science
-Popping popcorn - using five senses

Cooking
-Different popcorn toppings (predicting, voting, analyzing graph)
-Edible snowman

The following activities were found here.

Here are some of the activities you may want to consider in your preschool dinosaur unit (links will follow as detailed activities are added):
Dinosaur Mural (Creative, Social)
Five Silly Dinosaurs (Music, Math, Language)
Crayon Melting, Dino Style (Creative, Science)
Dinosaur Erosion Table (Sensory, Science)
Fossil Imprints (Science)
Frozen in Time (Sensory, Science)
Preschool Paleontologists (Science)
Rhyme-A-Saurus(Language, Pre-Reading)
Dinosaur, Dinosaur, What Time is it? (Social, Large Motor)
A Visit to the Museum (Science, Social, Language & Literacy)
Dino Scales (Fine Motor, Creative, Science)
The Classic Volcano (Science)
Hot Lava Hop (Large Motor)
We are the Dinosaurs (Music and Movement, Language)
How Big is a Dino? (Math)
Dinos Invade the Block Area (Math, Science, Language)
Best Dino Books (Language)

Lesson Planning with Me!