Resulting Lesson Plans from 4K Leaps 2009-2010

Boxes

Susan Gibson, Lisa Lehrer, Indra Singh

• Planning sheet and lesson plans

Bubbles

Jen Beck, Rachel Guarino, Amanda Wilson

• Lesson plans:

• Blowing milk bubbles

• Bubble bag

• Bubble pop pictures

• Bubble popping using your body

• Bubble wands

• Dancing raisins

• Floating bubble body awareness

• Measuring bubbles

• Paper towel bubbles

• Pop! Goes the bubble

• "Soap bubble" poem

Color

Meredith Danforth, Tracy Gorski, Melisa Paul

• Planning sheet

• Lesson plans:

• Class book: "My Favorite Color is..."

• Color matching game

• Color read-alouds

• Rainbow art

• Rainbow folk tale

• Rainbow journaling

• Rainbow music and movement

• Rainbow stew

• Rainy day walks

• What do you need to make a rainbow?

Community Helpers: Home Construction

Barb Erdmann and Terri Jagodzinski

• Story Extensions for Alphabet Under Construction and other alphabet books

• Architect and builder listening game

• Bath mat and marble fun

• Building a house sequence

• Building materials t-chart

• Build a house song and activity

• Describing building materials

• Five trusty tools

• Home construction occupation song

• Introduction/building anticipation and excitement

• "Johnny had one hammer"

• Nuts and bolts

• Old MacDonald has a woodshop

• Ordering building materials in a series by size

• “Paper” blocks houses

• Patterning with nuts and washers on bolts

• Sorting and patterning with washers, nuts, bolts, and other materials

• The carpenter’s tool

• "This is the way we..."

• Tool grid game

• Washers with cowtags

• What do you need to build a house?

• Other materials:

• Construction map and directions

• Home activity

• Parent letter: home construction

• Building a house sequencing

• Building materials: picture cards 1

• Building materials: picture cards 2

• Building materials: picture cards 3

• Tool grid game: 10 grid title

• Tool grid game: 20 grid title

Dinosaurs: Can you dig it?

Jennifer Flora, Amy Hix, Amy Nonestied

• Planning sheet

• Lesson plans:

• Box dinosaur

• Chomp, chomp

• Dino eggs

• Dinosaur delight

• Dinosaur stomp

• Fabulous fossils

• Lizard gizzards

• Mighty big toes

Down on the Farm

Meredith Danforth, Tracy Gorski, Melisa Paul

• Lesson plans:

• A day on the farm: cooking

• Egg relay race

• Farm daily news

• Farm themed shared reading

• Farmer visit to classroom

• Favorite farm animal graphing

• Feeding the animals

• Journaling — "my farm"

• Milk a cow

• Mother and baby farm animal matching game

• Playing with hay!

• "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"

• Raw eggs

• Visit to a local farm

• We're shearing sheep!

Fall Harvest

Patti Athanas, Paula Richardson

• Planning sheet
  

• Lesson plans 1

• Lesson plans 2

• Lesson plans 3

Family

Patti Athanas, Paula Richardson

• Planning sheet

• Lesson plans:

• All about mom; all about dad

• Comparing family pictures

• Drawing and sharing family pictures

• Family hats

• Family Reading Center

• Family recipes

• Father's Day, Mother's Day and Grandparent's Day cards

• Graphing: mathematical thinking

• Growth sequencing cards

• Homes around the world

• Muffins with mom/donuts with dad

• Photo puzzles

• Sharing family collages

• Who is in a family

• Families newsletter

Feelings — Mine and Yours

Barb Erdmann and Terri Jagodzinski

• Planning sheet

• Lesson plans:

• A is for Angry book and story extensions

• Attendance feelings chart

• Birthday party discussion and dramatic play

• Building anticipation with the book and song If You’re Happy and You Know it!

• Can you make that face?

• Expressing feelings through facial expressions and song

• Feeling sentences game

• Gift bag and small treasure count

• Gift box dice or spinner game

• Have a little hug bear

• "I Have Feelings" song and dramatization

• I have, who has: feelings

• Little Rabbit

• My Many Colored Days graphing story extension

• My Many Colored Days story with activities

• No giggles allowed

• Rainbow Fish book and story extensions

• Roll the dice: emotions identification

• Small craft gift box sort and graphing

• You've got mail

• Other materials:

• Emotion cards 1

• Emotion cards 2

• Feelings fingerplays and songs

• I have, who has base card

• More listening and speaking activities

• Parent letter: feelings

Friends

Christine Barney, Sara Vanden Berg, Jennifer Zwieg

• Planning sheet and lesson plans

Healthy Body from Head to Toe

Stacy Berger, Kimberly Radtke

• Cover sheet

• Planning sheet

• Family letter

• Lesson plans:

• "A Shopping Song"

• Healthy body music and movement

• Healthy body read alouds

• "Mat Man"

• My Digestive System read aloud

• Toothpaste Painting

• Why Do I Brush My Teeth? read aloud
  

• Why Do I Run? read aloud

• Why Do I Sleep? read aloud

• Why Do I Wash My Hands? read aloud

Inventions

Diane Bohnert, Sandra Piotrowski, Beth Schendel

• Planning sheet

• Family letter

• Planning document

• Sensory area plan

• Peanut butter and jelly sandwich making lesson plan
  

Meanies, Monsters and Make Believe

Jessica Hebert, Sarah Holtz, Melissa Schiek

• Planning sheet

• Lesson plans:

• Costume parade

• Hocus pocus

• The Hungry Thing class book

• Fifth dragon story

• Masks

• Me and my shadow

• Monster mache

• Monster puppets

• Monster puzzle

• My pet monster

• There's a Monster in My Closet

• Real or make believe

• Tall tale story starter

Nursery Rhymes

Diane Bohnert, Sandra Piotrowski, Beth Schendel

• Planning sheet

• Family letter

Pets

Christine Barney, Sara Vanden Berg, Jennifer Zwieg

• Planning sheet and lesson plans

Slippery Ice, Snowflakes and Shivers!

Susan Gibson, Lisa Lehrer, Indra Singh

• Planning sheet

• Parent letter and lesson plans

Transportation

Jen Beck, Rachel Guarino, Amanda Wilson

• Lesson plans:

• Boat building

• Cargo classbook

• Color car recording

• Daily news

• Do you like...?

• Drivers license and plate creation

• Driving journals

• Family boat

• Family travels

• Highway ABC cards

• How I got to school graph

• Journal writing

• Obstacle course

• Question of the day

• Red light, green light

• Transportation riddle of the day

• Transportation safety

• You can go!

• Transportation finger plays and songs

• Road count
  

Traveling and Adventures

Jessica Hebert, Sarah Holtz, Melissa Schiek

• Planning sheet
  

• Lesson plans:

• Airport/travel agency

• Family vacation share

• Flat stanley

• Journaling at the park

• KWL traveling

• Map measuring with a car

• My weekend with Snuggles

• Postcard match

• Suitcase packing

• Travel brochures

• Travel story starter

• Volcano explosion adventure

• What happens if