Lesson plan: Seeds & plants

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Subject: seeds and plants

Key words: seed, sprout, plant, flower, stem, leaves, roots

Learning objectives: Learn and name the parts of a plant, observe the stages of a seed's life, understand and be able to complete the sequence of the seed's life cycle. 

Materials & preparation: laptop/tablet, different seeds(lentils, chia, beans, etc.), cardboard, scissors, glue, markers

🌱E-book

Let's get in the subject flipping through a free e-book which introduces the parts of a plant. Plants 

You can also watch this video Seeds & plants that analyzes perfectly how the seeds are turned into plants and the parts of it.

🌱Agriculturists
We learn together about the part of a plant and how a seed is growing into a plant. Let's watch the videos and examine the different stages of life and the parts of a plant/flower.

🌻Seed

🌻Sprout/seedling

🌻Young plant

🌻Adult plant/flower

🌻Fruit

🌱Your plant
The results of this activity will come in time after days because a seed needs time to sprout and grow. However, it really worths waiting. You can choose any seed you want and follow the steps as in the video. You can keep a calendar to save the days and the changes your plant is having. 

🌱Seed mosaic
For this fine motor and tactile activity you can use any seed you have. Draw the picture you want according to the theme and fill it up with glue and the seeds. Use neccessarily cardboard and not a plain sheet of paper cause it will be heavy of the seeds. Remove the excess by tapping lightly and let it dry overnight. Your seed mosaic is ready!

🌱Seed's life cycle
This sequence activity is for the children to put  the stages of seeds' life in order .You can print this or make your own easily. After the previous activities the children should be able to complete which picture goes first, second, etc. It works as a revision.

🌱Flower's parts

Make your own puzzle with the parts of a flower. Draw and cut it into pieces. Then ask your child to put them in order and name each part.

''I hope you liked one more spring lesson plan. See you soon with more.''
SM

Lesson plan: Spring

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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: 4 Seasons

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Subject: Four seasons

Key terms: four, seasons, spring, summer, autmn, winter

Learning objectives: Name the four seasons, familiarize with some facts of each season  and discriminate them by pictures.

Materials & Preparation: laptop/tablet, printer(optional), scissors, glue, brown cardboard, white A4 sheets, Q-tips, elastic bands, food coloring-flour-water if you do the DIY paints,

🍁Introduction

To lead the children in the theme, you can watch the following educational video where the four seasons are introduce, together with some basic words that match with each of them about heat and activities[ex.spring=warm, flowers/summer=hot, beach, etc.]. Also, at the end of the video there is a small revision, so the children can repeat the words and learn some new vocabulary.
🎥Four Seasons

🍁E-Book 

The children heard and saw about winter, spring, summer, autumn. Let's see more! If you don't have any flashcards or book about the seasons, you can flip through the one in the link. Short but good- includes colors, pictures and description about each season. There is also audio narration version.
🕮 Seasons_Ebook.

🍁Arts & Crafts

Let's make a craft-astic art project with four season trees. Follow the links to see how to make DIY edible paint, if you don't have, and how to create the four trees. The videos include clear instructios.

🔗How to make paint at home
If you have paints you can skip this↖ video and go straight to the craft↙.
🔗4 season trees craft
For the craft i used DIY glue. Here is the recipe if you wanna do it.
Simple No-Cook Flour Glue
1 cup flour
½ cup water
1/8 teaspoon salt

🍁Sorting activity

Having done the previous activities, it is time to test children's new knoledge. Here is a nice activity where kids have to match the pictures with the right season. I forward a link from the website teacherpayteachers.com, a great resource with free printables!⇀Season sorting

At the same time, children can practise on the scissors cutting skill.

Note: If you can not print, you can always make your worksheets with simple drawings.✎

🍁Action game
This time we are going to combine the seasons with the weather. That is why I suggest to have already gone through the Lesson plan: Weather. For this game you will need clothing and items according to seasons. It's a dress up game where the kids have to dress themselves up with the right clothes. For example, take shorts, t-shirts, flip-flops, boots, jacket, coat, jumper, dress, sunglasses, hat, umbrella, etc. Place them on the floor and ask ''What should you wear on a (windy) autumn's day?''. Like this ask for all the seasons. Don't forget that some clothes/items can be used for more than one season. I think your children are gonna love the transformation!
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''I hope you liked the fun plan!😀''
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!

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

Lesson plan: Farm animals

Our plan for today!

Subject: Farm animals

Key terms: farm, animals, horse, duck, chicken, pig, cow, dog, sheep

Materials & preparation: computer, white papers, markers, farm animals figurines, food supplies for the diy farm

Learning objectives: Have fun with the farm animals, learn their names, identify them and make their sounds.

➤Flashcards

You can print or you can make your own flashcards easily like I did. This time we are going to learn about the pig, the horse, the duck, the chicken, the cow, the dog and the sheep. Of course there are more farm animals but we can't include them at once. Ask your children what animal are they and introduce them all.

➤Animal sounds

Show to your children one by one the animal cards in order to answer back with the sound they make. Kids love to replicate the voices of the animals. 

The cow makes MOO!

The dog makes Woof!

The sheep makes Baaa!

The chicken makes Cluck!

The horse makes Neigh!

The duck makes Quack!

The pig makes Oink!

➤Matching game
You will need the flashcards and your animal figurines for this fast and simple game. They have to pick an animal, name it and place on the right card.

➤ Which animal is this?

A funny game in the darkness where the children have to identify the animals by their shadow. Use a torch to create the shadow of each animal but make sure that they can not see the figurine.

➤ Sensory DIY farm

Make your farm with any materials you have. Use the animals figurines, bricks, lentils, corn, flour, make a muddy puddle for the pigs with cocoa or coffee, bowls, just improvise. Check my DIY farm! 

🎥https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cQVPHQB5ivAB8XhXYKzigi3JUy53I0zs/view?usp=sharing

➤ Memory game ‘Who is missing’?

Flip over the flashcards, take away one and ask the children which animal is missing.Train their memory and enhance the visual perception.

➤ Scavenger hunt It is the popular game of treasure hunt where the treasure this time is the farm animals. Draw a matching map with the animals you are using and then hide them. The kids have to search for them and match the animals every time they find one until they have found them all. Here is my map.

Have fun everyone!