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

Lesson plan: Weather

Our plan for today!

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Subject: Weather

''Dear parents & children, 

this lesson fun plan is mostly based on videos and virtual learning. I hope you will like it!''

Key terms: weather, sunny, cloudy, snowy, windy, rainy

Learning objectives: Children will be able to discriminate the weather conditions using adjectives and pictures.

Materials & preparation: computer/tablet, jar, water, shaving foam, blue food coloring, papers and markers for the flashcards

➤ Introduction

Let’s see the weather flashcards together and name the different conditions. You can also make you own weather flashcards like I did: sunny, windy,cloudy, rainy, snowy.

↪Note: Flashcards I use mostly to introduce the subject and to test the new knowledge. Intoduce the different weather conditions to your children and encourage them to repeat. After, point at each of them one by one and check what they remember.

➤ Time to sing
Let’s sing together ‘What is the weather like?’. In this link you can find a very nice song →Weather song. You can use hand gestures for the weather words:

sunny: slowly spread your arms out

rainy: wiggle your fingers downwards like rain

windy: gesture wind blowing out of your mouth

cloudy: make cloudy shapes with your hands

snowy: wiggle your fingers downwards like snow and shiver

➤ Look outside

Can you look outside the window and tell me what is the weather like? Go go and see! Now choose from the flashcards which are suitable for the day and describe it.

➤ Yoga

Time for some yoga poses according to the subject. Come with me and follow the link->Yoga class 🙆

➤ Little scientists
Let’s make an experiment and put the rain in a jar. Follow up!

➤ Online game

This is a game you are going to love. The kids have to dress up an animal of their choice according to the weather. Enjoy! ➙dress_for_the_weather

SEE YOU SOON!