Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon

*Pajama Kids Cut out children shapes from brown grocery bags. Have children collage the cut outs with different kinds of collage material.

*Retell the story with a pocket chart. On sentence strips write Goodnight and a line that the children can fill in. Next have sentence strips with words from the book and pictures. Have the children place the words in the pocket chart next to the word Goodnight. Have the children retell the story by reading the pocket chart.

*Moon Sorting Children sort Pom Poms by size into the three different sized jars. Add tongs for building fine motor skills.

*Goodnight Moon Rhyming Basket Objects are placed in a basket (one object for each child present), and the basket is passed around the circle. As each child gets the basket, say a word (What rhymes with fun) and they pull out the object that rhymes (fun). In basket place a spoon. You can use any objects that might go with your theme study unit.

Goodnight Moon Lesson Plan

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Ants, Ants and More Ants

The sun came out and along with the sun came the ants. The warmer it got the more ants we got simply amazing. The children sat around the pile of ants and observed what was happening.

After seeing all those ants we took the opportunity to read Hey, Little Ant

Once back inside some of the children went to the creative art area and made their own version of an ant.

And some took the opportunity to write about what they saw in the writing center.

Tic Tac Toe

We made these simple heart tic tac toe boards for the children and they have been playing endless games of tic tac toe.

Dental Month

We used a large mouth with teeth to show the children how to bursh and floss their theet. They could not wait to come up and give it a try.

We mad mouth mat and laminated them for durability. The children used them with white play dough and made teeth to go around the mouth. We also used the same mouth mats with dice white math cubs. The children rolled the dice identified the number on the dice and counted out the math cubs and placed them on the mouth mat.

Painting with tooth brushes.

Tooth number bingo game that we created with clip art.

Look at what they are writing in the writing center.

Valentine Boxes

Our class has been getting ready for the big day of sharing valentine’s cards. I went to our local pay less shoe story and collected all the discarded shoe boxes. The children have been recycling them into their very own valentine treasure boxes to hold all the many valentine’s they will receive.

These cute little hearts have been popping up in the creative art area.

The Napping House

The Napping House

We have been reading The Napping House this week since we have been getting so much rain. It seemed to fit the mood of the children and the teacher. After reading the story the children have been creating their own version of the Napping House.

Exploring Worms

It has been raining a lot around here and the worms are out in droves. The children observed all the worms on the side walk on their way into the classroom and had to report their findings first thing. So since the children could not stop talking about all the worms and how some were crawling under the doors and into the classroom, we decided to take the opportunity to go for a walk and do some scientific observation. We aloud the children to collect worms and place them into plastic cups so that they could bring them inside for further observation. (Yes some of the teachers did not like this idea to much and the children took full advantage of the ones that got a little to squeamish.) Ok so I got a few laughs who could blame me. Once inside we took a close look with magnifying glasses and the children also wanted to measure them to see who found the longest one.  They will be talking about these worms for days to come.