Wonderful Word: Zoology -...

Character Education: Curiousity, CompassionWonderful Word: Zoology

Literacy: Oral Language, Vocabulary, Written Expres sion.

English Vocabulary: zoology, giraffe, elephant, bea r, tiger, monkey, camouflage.

Encourage children to look through the books. Challenge them to look for information about the animals discussed in the lesson.

Encourage children to build or shape their favorite zoo animals.

Literacy (Oral Language, Read

Aloud)

Date: May 1-5

Weekly letters: Mm, Ee, Zz, Kk

Read Aloud: "Welcome to Zippity Zoo" Ask a volunteer to tell one thing about monkeys that piqued his curiousity.

Read Aloud: How Do Animals Use their Ears? Ask volunteers to share what they discovered about animal ears.

Greeting Circle

Sing "Oh, Do You Want to See the Zoo" (p.195) Ask children about their zoo experiencse. Morning Message: We go by the zoo.

Sing "The Lion at the Zoo" (p.191) Tell the that today they will learn about elephants, tigers, bears, and lions. Morning Message: Elephant begins with E.

Sing"Ten Little Monkeys" (p.195) Tell children that today they will learn about monekys, gorillas, and chimpanzees. Morning Message: Monkey begins with M.

Moving and Learning

Spanish Vocabulary: zoologia, jirafa, elefante, oso , tigre, mono, camuflaje

Phonics

Invite the children to make the weekly letters out of play doh.

Have the children try copying the word monkey using magnetic letters.

Weekly Learning Centers

Invite children to tap and sing along to "Chim Chim Chimpanzee" (p.185)

Read Aloud: Welcome to Zippity Zoo. Point out that zebras stay together to camouflage themselves from their enemys.

Read Aloud: Zanzibar Zoo Story Folder. Tell children that elephants travel in groups called herds.

Invite the children to try to jump as far as a kangaroo using a measuring tape.

Encourage the children to look around the room for things that are the same length as a giraffe's tongue. Compare the child's tongue to a giraffe's using a mirror.

Invite children to play "Monkey Nonsense" (p.208)

Sing "Oh, Do you Want to See the Zoo?" (p.195) Tell children today they will learn about zebras, giraffes, and emus. Morning Message: Zebra begins with Z.

Sing "Oh, Do You Want to See the Zoo" (p.195) Tell the children that today they will learn about kangaroos and koalas. Morning Message: Kangaroo and koala begin with K.

Encourage children to copy the animal names using magnetic letters.

Invite the children to make a giraffe out of the letter Z.

Encourage the children to decorate the weekly letters using animal patterns.

Provide black and white or gold and brown streates and invite children to dance to "Twirl Those Ribbons"

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4LESSON

COMPONENTS

Class: Gard 3

Technology: FROG STREET MATH - Order It

Math: Number and Operations.

Day 5

Lesson Plan for Zoo Animals

Play "Zookeeper Says" (p.209) Give children zoo animal movement and sounds.

Invite the children to walk on a line of rope as they sings "Three Happy Bears" (p.209)

Read Aloud: "How Do Animals Use their Mouths". Ask children to name ways people use their mouths.

Invite the children to reenact the story of "Five Monkeys Swinging on a Vine"

Sing "Oh, Do You Want to See Sing "The Lion at the Zoo" Sing"Ten Little Monkeys" Sing "Oh, Do you Want to See Sing "Oh, Do You Want to See


COMPONENTSDay 5

Practice counting with the children and review the plus and minus signs with the children.

Math and Science

Invite the children to play ten little frog counting on the bed. Remind the children to pause after each verse and count the decreasing number of frogs.

Outdoor Learning

Learning Goals

Closing Circle

Invite the children to make a set with gumdrops (pom poms) Encourage the children to roll a pocket cube and remove that many gumdrops from the starting amount. Have children count how many gum drops are left after the roll.

Photo Activity Cards: 27,30,33,34,36,37,44,94,128,132. Challenge the children to sort the animal cards into two categories- Animals that live in trees and animals that do not.

*Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Regulates his own behavior with the occasional reminders or assistance from teacher. *Initiates problem-solving strategies and seeks adult help when necessary.

Character Education/Social

Studies

Make someone smile by creating cards for a hospital, nursing home or sick friend and talk about compassion. Read the book: "The Velveteen Rabbit"

Hide zoo animals around the playground. Have children round them up.

*Names at least 20 upper and lowercase letters. *Asks and answers questions about the book. *Recognize at least 20 letter sounds.

*IS aware of own feelings most of the time. *Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Combines ideas for complex sentences.

Provide can stilts (p.166) Encourage children to pretend to walk like giraffes.

Set up Kangaroo Races. (p.207)

Review compassion and curiosity. Discuss about the story "Johnny Applessed" and "Curious George"

Discuss about a time someone showed compassion. Play the story "Treasury of Virtues" on the smartboard.

Compassion story starters: One of your classmates' houese burns down and she loses everything she/he owns. You……

Talk about what things can you do when someone is sick. How can you help a friend? How do you care for an animal?

*Intiates problem-solving strategies and seeks adult help when necessary. *Shows intiative in independent situations and persists in attempting to solve problems. *Shows understanding by responding appropriately.

*Demonstrates coordination and balance in isolation. * Coordinates sequence of movements to perform tasks. *Creates or re-creates stories, moods, or experiences through dramtic representations.

What did you learn about the zoo today?

Encourage the children create a platform out of tissue paper & construction paper. Encourage two children to hold each side while another student stacks cubes in the middle. Record how many cubes each platform can hold.

What have you learned about zoo animals this weeks.

What is the favorite thing you learned today about the zoo animals?

What is the largest zoo animal we have learned about?

What did you learn about monkeys today?

Invite children to play "Mbube, Mbube" (p.208) or "Elephant Soccer" (p.206)

Play a game of "Catch a Tiger's Tail" (p.206)

Invite the children to sing "Can you move with me?" Encourage the children to move like the bugs.

Teach the rhyme "Ladybug, Ladybug"

Read Aloud: Edie's Backayrd Bugs" Explain that insects can be found everywhere.

Allow the children to choose an insect she would like to re-create with pattern blocks. Model ways in which the children can join the pattern blocks.


COMPONENTS

Class: Gard 3

Technology: Reading Buddy

Math: Number and Operations.

Day 5

Lesson plan for Bugs

Invite children to sing "All Around my Yard" (p.183) Morning Message: "Dragonfly begins with D"

Invite the children to sing "The Insect Song" (p.189) Morning Message: Termite begins with T

Encourage the children to think of words that begin with the weekly letters.

Have the children talk about what is the same and what is different between ants and dragonflies

Encourage the children to think about words that begin with the daily letter.

Invite the children to fly like a dragonfly with streamers and sing "The Sounds of Nature"

Phonics

Encourage the children to copy the words: Fly, mosquito and bee. Which insect name is the longest?

Invite the children to begin an insect journal. Have the children draw bees and wasps.


Discuss how ants move and sing "Little Ants" (p.190)

Read Aloud: "Cathing Fireflies"

Read "The Ants go Marching" and have the children identify rhyming words.

Have the children indentify the repetitive consonant sound: 1. Beautiful beetles bathe blissfully 2. Wimpy wasps waltz weirdly 3. Mobs of mosquitoes make me moan 4. Testy termites tap!

Arrange a three-by-three row and column grid of lily pads on the floor. Number them 1-9 and have the kids jump from number to number in increasing order.

Teach the children how to do the Waggle Dance (p.209)

Date: May 8-12

Weekly letters: I,i,B,b,L,l,D,d,T,t

Read Aloud: "The Song of the Teeny Tiny Mosquito"

Read Aloud "Shubert's Helpful Day"

Greeting Circle

Invite the children to sing "All around my yard" (p.183) Discuss the sounds the bugs make. Morning message: Insect begin with I.

Invite the children to sing "My Busy Garden" Tell the children that today they will learn about ladybugs. Morning message:

Invite the children to sing "Baby Bumblebee" Discuss about being compassionate toward insect. Morning message: I see a bee on my knee.

Moving and Learning

Spanish Vocabulary: insectos, depredadores, aumenta r, colmena, avispa, escarabajos, disminuir.

Character Education: Curiosity and CompassionWonderful Word: Entomology

Literacy: Vocabulary, Phonological Awareness.

English Vocabulary: Insects, predators, increase, h ive, wasp, beetles, decrease.

Create a throw line by placing a piece of masking tape on the floor a few feet away from the poster board. Pair the children.Encourage them to stand behind the line and toss the beanbags.

Assign each child a particular backyard feature(grass,flower,fence, dirt) To draw on al large sheet of butcher paper.


Aloud)


COMPONENTSDay 5

Invite children to sing "All Invite the children to sing Invite the children to sing "All Invite the children to sing "My Invite the children to sing

Which insects from the ones we learned about this week was your favorite? Why?

What is the most interesting thing you learned about dragonflies?

Do farmers like having ladybugs in their garden?

What intrigues you about bees? How are bees and wasps alike?

Play Beetle,Beetle, Ladybug.Invite the to play Queen Bee.

How can we tell an insect from a bug?

Count the legs of a ladybugs and dots. Encourage the children to match the ladybugs dots with black circles to confirm the amounts on both wings.

*Identifies and describes the characteristcis of organisms *Count up to ten items, and demonstrate which items were counted *Describes and sequences life cycels of organisms

*Begins to understand difference and connection between feelings and behaviors *Assumes various roles and responsibiliteis as part of a classroom family *Participates in classroom music activities

Place frog beanbags on the parachute and encourage children to figure a way to make the frogs hop up to catch flying bugs.

Play follow the Leader Ants. Select a lead ant and have the other children follow in a line, mimicking the movements of their leader.

Pull up a map on the smart board and have the children name a place they have travelled to, and a place that they would like to visit one day.

Discuss about what curiosity means and give the children some examples.

To encourage compassion, have the children play "Hug a Bug" Play dance music, when the music stops, they find a friend to hug until the music resumes.

"Treasury of Virtues" Discuss how the children can show compassion to different people in their neighborhood.

*Demonstrates empathy and caring for others *Uses category labels to understand how words and objects relate to each other *Makes a verbal word problem for subracting 1 to 5 objects from a set

* Uses the verbal ordinal terms. *Uses concrete models or makes a verbal word problem for adding up to five objects. *Shows understanding by responding appropriately.

Outdoor Learning

Learning Goals

Closing Circle

Invite the children to place in order a series of five boxes from largest to smallest or smallest to largest.

Pair the children with a partner. Allow them to sort through the dirt to find insects. Provide magnifying glasses to examine the insects.

*Practices good habits of personal safety. *Identifies and describes the characteristics of organisms. *Combines syllables into words.


Studies

Read the story " Hey Little Ant" Discuss about compassion.

Pair chidren. Give each pair a yard of yarn. Have them find a spot on the playground to make a circle with their yarn. Encourage them to conduct a bug search inside their circle.

Instruct the children to roll the number cube and decorate a lady bug with that many dots.

Math and Science

Create lily pads and frogs, set out a certain number of frogs on the pads. Then have some jump off. "If 7 frogs are sitting together, then 3 jump in the pond, how many are left?"

Character Education: Curiosity and CompassionWonderful Word: Metamorphosis

Literacy: Oral Lenguage, Phonological Awareness

English Vocabulary: Pupa, Metamorphosis, Grasshoppe r, Caterpillar, Herbivorous

Invite children to make shadow worms with their fingers. Have them put on a shadow story about a worm.

Invite one child to draw a card and then communicate which insect he has drawn by pantomiming the movements of the insects or by making the sound if there is one.


Aloud)

Date: May 15-19

Weekly letters: S, s, J, j, W, w

Read Aloud: "Sara Sidney's Runaway Adeventure".

Read "Wiggle Worm's Adventure".

Greeting Circle

Invites children to sing "Roly-Polu Caterpillar" (P.195). Monring message: Caterpillar know how to eat.

Teach the children "Nobody Likes Me". Morning Message: Snail and slug beging with S.

Invite children to sing "My Busy Garden"(p.192). Morning Message: Jump begins with J.

Moving and learning

Spanish Vocabulary: Larva, Metamorfosis, Saltamonte s, Oruga, Herbivoros

Phonics

Invites children to copy the words Bee and Ladybug with magnetic letters.

With magnetic letters make children bounce the hoppers and determine which letter the hoppers touches on its second bounce.


Invite the children to create an insect and bug orchestra.

Ask the children to share what they know about spiders. Read aloud: Itsy Bitsy Spider"

Read aloud: "Can you move with me?"

Invite the children to make crazy bug hats. Encourage the children to name their bug.

Invite the children to use their fingers like spider legs to create dancing shadow spiders.

Invite children pretend they are grasshoppers. They can running, bouncing and jumpling.Play Hop! Hop! Stop!

Invite the children to sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" Morning message: Spiders begin with S.

Invite the children to sing " All around my yard" (p.183) Morning message: Worm begins with W.

Using play dough shape the weekly letters.

Practice the letter sounds for the weekely letters.

Encourage the children to match uppercase to lowercase letters s, j,w.

Invite the children to climb and dance to "Itsy Bitsy Spider"

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4Lesson componets

Class: Gard 3

Technology: Words, Words, Words

Math: Numbers and Operations

Day 5

Lesson Plan for MORE BUGS

Invites children to join you chanting the "The Life Cycle Chant".

Invite children to sign along and move to "Can You Move with Me?.

Read Aloud: "Edie's Backyard Bugs"

Instruct one child to place dot sticker on the floor and jump from that spot as far as she can. Pretent being a grasshopper.

Invites children to sing "Roly- Teach the children "Nobody Invite children to sing "My Invite the children to sing Invite the children to sing " All

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4Lesson componets Day 5

Invite the childen to make a worm by gluing an alternating pattern of pattern block cut outs.

Math and Science

Create red and blue patterns with the children.

Outdoor Learning

Learning Goals

Closing Circle

Practice counting as children jump forward and backward.

Practice number recognition with the children and play a matching game.

*Demostrate empathy and caring for others. *Uses category label to understand hor words and object relate to each other. *Begings to understand difference and connection between feeling and behaviors.


Studies

Read "Twiggle Learns to Do Turtle". Model the appropriate use of Turtle and practice group Turtle with the children.

Give children colorful cellophane to use as butterfly wings and have them fly around the playground making colorful butterfly shadows.

*Investigates and describes position and motion of objects. *Knows that objects or parts of an object can be counted. *Engages in voting as a method for group decision making.

*Practices good habits of personal safety. *Is aware of own feelings most of the time. *Identifies and describes the characteristics of organism.

Make a giant spider with the parachute. (p.208).

Carefully dig a hole in a garden area. Invite the children to watch the worn. Be careful to protect the worn from too much air or sun as they are vulnerable to both. Discuss the children's observations.

Ask the children what sparks their curiosity?

Discuss about ways we can be compassionate to bugs and toward animals.

Perform the daily commitment check. Ask for examples of ways children followed through on their commitments.

Read the book "Shurbert's New Friend" Tell children that this Shurbert book is about accepting someone who is different.

*Identifies and describes the characteristics of organisms. *Engages in conversation in appropiate ways. *Uses concrete models or make a verbal word problem for adding up to five objects.

*Demostrate an understanding and tolerance for unique characteristics of other. *Ask and answers appopriate question about the book. *Engages in a conversation in appropriate ways.

Discuss why a life cycle doesn't really have a first stage.

Invite the children to make connecting cube representations of the rooster, snail, horse and ant animal-leg counting cards.

What have we learned about compassion toward animals?

Ask the children if a spider is an insect. How many legs does a spider have?

Discuss What sparked your curiosity today?

Discuss How far can a grasshopper hop and how far did you hop?

Invite children to make a long worm by holding onto each other's waist. Challenge them to wiggle across the playground without coming apart.

Encourage children to jump around the perimeter of the playground pretending tobe crickets or grasshoppers. They may be able to observe some real jumping insects.

Invite the children to play "Sleeping,Sleeping"(p.207).

Let the children exchange handshakes as they sing along and act out the lyrics to the song"Shake a Hand".

Present the book"Cristina and the Frog"-first reading. Invite the children to listen for changes that are happen-ing in Cristina's life.

Invite the children to knead two colors of playdogh to create a new color.


COMPONENTS

Class:Gard 3

Technology: Abcmouse.com

Math:Geometry and Spatial Sense

Day 5

# 37 Changes in and Around Me

Sing along with"A Piece of String"(p.183). Morning message:"Unhappy begins with U".

Let the children sing"Roly- Poly Caterpillar"(p.190). Morning message:"Dilly and Dally begin with D".

Let the children make the letters V and Y with playdough.

Let the children match upper- and lowercase letters R,D,V,U,Y.

Review the weekly letters with felt board.

Invite the children to participate in the action rhyme"Tiny Seeds"(p.205).

Phonics

Present the weekly letters with flash cards.

Go on a letter hunt and search for the letters R,D,U.


Have the children sing along and move as directed to "Watch Them Change" (p.194).

Present the book"The Do- Nothing Machine".

Read the book"Animal Lives".

Invite the children to draw a family portrait.

Invite the children to mix paints to create a new color.

Invite the children to sing and pantomime"Five Little Speckled Frogs"(p.199).

Date:May 22-26

Weekly letters:Rr,Dd,Vv,Uu,Yy

Listen to the the story folder "Diego's Fifth Birthday".

Read the book"Cristina and the Frog"-second reading.

Greeting Circle

Invite the children to sing "Change"(p.184). Morning message:"Visit begins with V"

Invite the children to sing "Change"(p.184). Morning message:"Retrieve begins with R".

Invite the children to sing "Change"(p.184). Morning message:"Yester- day begins with Y".

Moving and Learning

Spanish Vocabulary: Cambio,Nuevo,Intercambio,Infeli z,

Character Education: Patience&PrideWonderful Word:Mature

Literacy:Oral language&Writing

English Vocabulary: Change,New,Exchange,Unhappy,

Invite the children to sort through crayons to find those that are not useable.

Invite children to build freely with blocks and discuss the transformations they are making.


Aloud)


COMPONENTSDay 5

Sing along with"A Piece of Let the children sing"Roly- Invite the children to sing Invite the children to sing Invite the children to sing

Talk about changes in animals.

Encourage the children to talk about things that upset them and to discuss strategies to transform upset to calm.

Name things for which we exchange(bus trips,carnival rides etc.).

What do birthdays celebrate Describe your last birthday?

Invite the children to play with balls and then exchange their balls with beanbags. Ask how this changes their games?

Encourage the children to look around the playground for things that are missing (a flower, a bug etc.).

Ask the children about changes that take place when we wake up?

Have the children balance a scale using connecting cubes and frog counters.

Is aware of own feelings most of the time. Emotional control. Oral language.

Shows understanding by responding appropriately. Participates in classroom music activities. Creates and names shapes.

Encourage the children to clean up the playground. Point out that they have transformed the playground.

Invite the children to chase bubbles.

What makes a good student? What does it mean to be patient?

What kinds of things does a patient person do?

What does it mean to wait your turn?

Vocabulary. Measurement. Demonstrates knowledge of verbal conversational rules.

Provides appropriate information for various situations. Alphabet knowledge. Fine motor skills.

Outdoor Learning

Learning Goals

Closing Circle

Invite the children to play "Finish my shape".

Complete pattern block puzzles.

Is aware of own feelings most of the time. Names common shapes. Creates shapes.


Studies

Introduce the term patience.

Encourage the children to do one new thing-climbing,slid-ing,swinging.

Invite the children to transform shapes by adding pattern blocks.

Math and Science

Have the children copy shapes with playdough ropes.

Character Education: Patience and PrideWonderful Word: Astronomy

Literacy: Phonological Awareness, Oral Language.

English Vocabulary: astronomy, night, day, star, su n, moon, moonlight, sunlight

Invite children to connect links to represent the four seasons. Then have themj make a circle with the core of links. Ask the chldren to say the seasons with you.

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Aloud)

Date: May 29- Jun 2

Weekly letters: Letter Review

Read Aloud: "Days of the Week" Invite the children to sing "Seven Days" (p.191)

Read Aloud: Reagan's Journal. Ask children to predict what the story is about.

Greeting Circle

C Teach the children "When I’m Chilly," (p.197) Morning Message: In the winter I ______________.

Teach the children "Happy Faces" (p.186) Morning Message: IN the nighttime I ____________.

Moving and Learning

Spanish Vocabulary: astronomia, noche, dia, estrell a, Sol, Luna

Phonics

O Invite the children to practice compound words, moonlight and sunlight.


Play "Whats the Weather"

Read Aloud: "The Corn Seed" What time of the year do you think the story takes place?

Read Aloud: Once Upon a Time in Dragon Land"

Make raindrops out of blue construction paper.

Invite the children to sequence the season cards.

Play "Sally Go Round the Moon" (p.206)

teach the children "Falling leaves song" (p.185) Morning Message: In the Spring I _____________

Teach the children the "The Weather Song" Morning Message: On a rainy day I __________.

Encourage the children to match lower case and uppercase letters.

Invite the children to practice identifying the letters in their name.

Encourage the children to practice making letter sounds.

Play "Spring is Here"


COMPONENTS

Class: Gard 3

Technology: Child locates words that begins with ta rget letter.

Math: Patterns

Day 5

Lesson Plan for Earth Changes

L Invite the children to play "Freeze" (p.206)

S

Encourage the children to make the sun and the sun rays out of playdough.

C Teach the children "When I’m Teach the children "Happy teach the children "Falling Teach the children the "The


COMPONENTSDay 5

Take the children on a shadow hunt.

Math and Science

Display the story "Diego's Fifth Birthday" Using streamers create a pattern using blue, purple, and green.

Outdoor Learning

Learning Goals

Closing Circle

Point out the sun is the Earth's primary source of enegry. Encourage the children to draw the sun on a piece of paper.

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Studies

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*Names at least 20 upper and lowercase letters. *Asks and answers questions about the book. *Recognize at least 20 letter sounds.

*IS aware of own feelings most of the time. *Demonstrates empathy and caring for others. *Combines ideas for complex sentences.

Play Fall Ball. (p.206) Make ice blocks. (p.168)

Discuss a time when you had to show patience.

Define the word pride. Define the word patience. Disc uss a time when you felt pride.

*Demonstrates interest in creative work of others. *Creates Shapes *Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud.

*Retells or reenacts a story after it is read aloud. *Demonstrates interest in creative work of others. *Combines words to make a compound word.

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Have children create repetitions of the season cube core for a sibling or a friend or encourage them to draw numeral cards and create repetitions equal to the number drawn.

What have you learned about weather changes today?

Ask children to name signs of fall and spring.

what did you learn today about changes that happen in summer and winter?

Perform a daily commitment check.

Fluff the parachute to capture plenty of air underneath so you can form an umbrella. Have children take turns running under the umbrella to escape spring showers.

Encourage children to watch the changing clouds. Challenge them to find animal shapes in the clouds.

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