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: Numbers 1-5

Our plan for today!

Subject: Numbers 0-5

Key terms: numbers, zero, one, two, three, four, five, ducks

Learning objectives: Count one to five, get familiar with the numbers shape and start identifying the numbers.

Materials and preparation: computer/tablet, printer(optional), scissors, glue, colored papers, beige(or any color for ice-cream cones) cardboard, playdough, markers, toy car, glue, flour/shaving foam

➤Introduction

To start with, you can listen to the famous song 'Five little ducks' which you are going to use for dramatic play later. You can find it here:Five little ducks.
The story is about five ducks that went to the lake with their mom but one by one was going far away until only one left when daddy duck called them and all came back. Numbers and counting up to 5 are used in the song so the children can start to get used to the sounds. You can print or draw the ducks you need-5little ones, mommy & daddy, even a lake- in order to play the story and practise counting. Should be fun!

➤Flashcards
You can easily find online free number flashcards or can create your own, by writing down the numbers in different cardboards cut in small size like the ¼ of an A4 page. It is important to draw for each number the analog of objects in order to count the objects every time they are looking for a number (three balls for number three, four butterflies for number four, etc). Don't forget zero! Let’s practise counting! You parents should the models count one by one with clear voice and encourage the children to repeat the numbers.

➤Fine motor activities

1. For this activity you are going to use the number flashcards and some pom poms. Ask for each card ‘Which number is this? Let’ count!’ and count the figures on the card to find which number it is. Then, ask from your child to put as many pom poms as it is needed according to the number. Repeat for each number.

2. In order to familiarize them with the shape of the numbers, you can draw huge numbers with small lines in between so they look like roads. You can also find them online as number road mats. Take a car/trolley and drive between the lines. It is important for the children to get used to the shape of each number. Be the model for them and with your finger show them how you write the number.

3. Another pre-writing activity you can do is to write them with playdough. ✵You can find the recipe for DIY playdough in the lesson  about primary colors here→ theme_plan:colors1.
Take one at the time number road mat and try to place  the playdough on the number so you make the shape of it. The best option is to make a huge worm and then put it between the lines.

4. Last but not least a sensory tray with shaving foam or flour where the children can experiment with the numbers writing. You can use the flashcards as reference to help them remember the numbers. So simple and exciting the same time.

➤Arts &Crafts
Cut out of cardboard the cones and the numbers till five. Cut out the correct number (15 in total) of ice cream scoops out of different colored paper. The children have to glue the corresponding number of scoops to the ice cream cones ex. one scoop for number 1, two scoops for 2, etc. You can decorate them with glitter glue, stickers or anything you have available.They can take the ice creams in their play kitchen and use them anytime.
                                      

''Enjoy the project. See you again for number 5-10!''
SM