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LESSON PLAN SAMPLE
 Our program includes both planned group activities as well as activities that your child can select. The daily schedule offers a balance of indoor and outdoor, active and quiet play. We also offer experiences with language, music, art, science, field trips, drama and a variety of play equipment to help your child grow socially, intellectually, emotionally, and physically. Take a look at a sample of one of our weekly lesson plans for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
Infant Lesson Plan | Toddler Lesson Plan | PreSchool Lesson Plan
INFANT LESSON PLAN
| Books we will read: |
Songs We Sing: |
Learning: |
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf
The Very Hungry
Caterpillar
The Very Lonely Firefly
The Very Quiet Cricket |
Grey Squirrel
1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Indians
Nursery Rhyme: Hickory Dickory Dock |
Fall leaf sensory bottles
Leaf ziploc sensory bags
Naming body parts |
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| Social Skills |
Physical Skills |
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Where’s the rattle game
Handprint Turkeys
Talk to baby about photographs
Peek A Boo |
Rolling a ball
Tummy time (rolling front to back)
Practice reaching in a basket to choose a toy |
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TODDLER LESSON PLAN:
Theme: Fantastic Fall!
Color: Brown
Shape: Square
Numbers: 5&6
Letters: T, M, Q
Circle Time 1: Greetings, Calendar, Weather Watcher
Language: Review letters T&M/ “Hop on Pop” (rhyming)
Story of the Week: A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman
Art: Monday – Handprint turkeys
Tuesday – Feather paint
Wednesday – Thanksgiving Placemats
Small Group/manipulatives:
Monday – Fall Leaves Matching
Tuesday – Dominoes
Wednesday – Square lacing card
Thursday – no school
Friday – no school
Movement – “Toe, Knee, Chest, Nut…”
Music – If You’re Thankful and You Know It
Circle Time 2 – Color & Number flashcards; review the day
Bible Story – God leads his People Through the Red Sea
PRE-SCHOOL WEEKLY LESSON PLAN
Morning |
Books:
Come Out, Come Out! By Pat Lowery Collins
Dancing Granny by Elizabeth Winthrop
Piggies by Audrey Wood
The Deep Blue Sea by Audrey Wood
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Planning Time: Phones
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Recall Time: Phones
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Bible Story Time
Bible Story – God Calls Moses
Bible Verse – Go into all the world and preach the good news.
Bible Song – Jesus has a little helper.
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Large Group Time
Movement – Body Awareness
Music – “This Is What I Can Do” |
Key Experience:
Acting upon movement directions
exploring and identifying sounds – loud and soft |
Small Group Time
Monday – Hot or Cold?
Tuesday – Paper Snipping
Wednesday – What’s missing?
Thursday – Painting triangles
Friday – Patterning with crayons
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Key Experience:
Holding more than one attribute in mind
Sorting and matching
cutting
Distinguishing and describing shapes
Arranging things one after another in a pattern and describing it
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Afternoon: |
Work Time:
Monday – Busy Boxes – 2 objects
Tuesday – Drawing/painting
How I look in November, a self-portrait
Wednesday – Put-together/Take-Apart Manipulatives – small legos
Thursday - Make a These are our Hands book.
Friday – Making Play-doh |
Key Experience:
Counting
drawing
Fitting things together and taking them apart
Reading in various ways: reading storybooks
Filling and emptying
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Music – Itsy Bitsy Spider v. 4
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Movement – Gallop, Gallop, Gallop
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Predictable Book/Author – To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda
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