Lesson plan: Spring

Our plan for today!

Subject: Flowers

"Dear children & parents, 

the spring project begins and it's gonna be multi-layered. Have fun!🥀"

Key terms: spring, flower, petals, leaves, stem

Learning objectives: To realize that spring is the season of blossom, to see different types of flowers and work through them and to create artificial flowers.

Materials & preparation: tablet, printer(optional), bowl with water, flowers, scoops and strainers, cups, dice, newspapers/magazines, scissors, straw, double-sided tape/glue, colored sheets, markers

💮E-book
Following this link ''Now that it's spring!'', you will find a short e-book with spring images to welcome you to the project's theme.

💮Sensory water activity

As you will see in the video, we are making a fairy soup with petals, flowers and leaves, play with them and freeze them at the end▶️2nd video.
Pick some flowers and follow up! You also need a bowl with water, scoops and cups, ice cube tray or cupcakes.

  

💮Board game

You can download my DIY board game in this link→Spring's board game! You need a dice and you are ready to revise numbers and counting in a flowery version. If there is no printer, make your own handmade board game!

💮Flower crafts with easy materials

For the first craft you will need: coloured paper, scissors, double-sided tape and a straw. Watch the steps to make a lovely hyacinthus.

For the second craft you will need newspapers/magazines/brochures to draw on and cut out flowers. Then, paste them on a colored sheet and draw stem and leaves.  Simple but nice. You have so many flower choices.

💮E-games

Here are two memory games with spring images for your little one based one their age to play and exercise their memory and eye perception. 

Memory game for toddlers

Memory game for preschoolers

💮Practice fine motor and pre-writing skills

I forward you some worksheets for tracing lines and cutting by @motheringwithcreativity. You can find more on TeachersPayTeacher. These are great pre-writing activities to practise. Firstly, trace the line with the finger and then, use a marker. There are also spring themed sheets for scissors cutting.

Printable spring worksheets

"Stay tuned for more spring fun following!''
SM

Easter fun plan activities!

“Dear parents & children,
I hope you are fine and healthy. Easter has come and I have gathered some great activities for you. Enjoy!”

Key terms: Easter, bunny, egg, chocolate, hunting, basket, chicks

Learning objectives: Get familiar with the words Easter, bunny, eggs, enter the Easter mood and have fun playing.

Materials & preparation: plastic eggs, chocolate eggs, basket (optional), white cardboard, pink paper, scissors, glue, orange and green paper, salt, water, flour, bowl, acrylic paints, glitter (optional), flowers & leaves, eggshells, plastic hammer/spoon



➤ Introduction
In this video Captain English is looking for the chocolate easter eggs, can you find them? This way yourchildren will get familiar with the words Easter, bunny, chocolate eggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54nDbehiLr0

➤ Craft time
It’s time to become the easter bunny! Make a simple and cute headband with the rabbit’s ears and hop around the house. You need a piece of long white cardboard or put together two pieces to make the headband in the perimeter of the child’s head. Use some pink paper for the inside of the ears or color it with pink and stick them on the headband. You ’re ready bunnies!

➤ Action game
Now that you are the easter bunnies you can go for some egg hunting. On the condition that you have some plastic or chocolate eggs, hide them around the house, give a basket to your children and let them go hunting. You can use an egg carton case for a basket with ribbons for handles.
🐰Note: If you have plastic eggs you can hide inside only some of the chocolate eggs as a reward for your children ;-) Another option is to hide different items in the plastic eggs to intensify the idea of the treasure. And if you have none of them, make the sensory activity first so you have easter eggs (check below).

➤ Salt dough
This time we are making salt dough eggs. You will need: * ½ cup of salt * 1 cup of flour * ½ cup of water. Mix the flour and the salt in a bowl and gradually add the water. The dough is ready to get shape. Use something round to cut eggs if you don’t have oval cutter. Make a hole on top if you want to use them as ornaments to decorate your house and hang them. Bake them in a preheated oven at 160 C’ degrees for 20-30 minutes, depended on the thickness, keep an eye on them. After they have cooled down, you can paint them with acrylics, make patterns and add some glitter.
Alternatively, you can split the dough in parts, color them with food coloring before baking, create colorful easter eggs and then put them in the oven.

➤ Bunny out of flowers
This little spring bunny is gonna bring you so much joy. It is necessary to have already collected a few flowers and leaves. This is my floral easter bunny. Are you ready to do yours?

➤ Arts & Crafts

Follow the link to make together cute chicks with a paper roll!🐥 You need: a paper roll, yellow paint, a white A4 paper, black, pink, orange markers and a toothpick.

Note: I made the yellow paint myself because I didn’t have. If you are in the same position->Mix 1 part of flour with 1 part of water and enough yellow food coloring drops. I used 2 tbsp of flour/2 tbsp of water/4 color drops-you don’t need much.

➤ Crack an egg

All these Easter days you are surely doing some baking with eggs. Save the eggshells for this math activity. Write the numbers 0-10 on the halfs  and place them on a tray or towel. Write the numbers also on paper pieces folded so they are not visible. Put the paper pieces in a cup and the kids will pick one at the time like lottery. Identify the number, match it with the correct eggshell and crack it with a toy hammer or a spoon. 

                                                         

''Happy Easter everyone! Have a great time with family and friends at home!''

SM