Daily Planning Form
The
Planning for Groups
Discovery & Exploration: Transportation
Date: September 19-23, 2016
For Preschool with Benchmarks aligned with
the Illinois Learning Standards
Language Arts
Physical
Development &
Health
Group Time
Music &
Movement
(Morning
Meeting)
CREATIVE CURRICULUM
Illinois Early Learning Standards (Underlined)
Creative Curriculum (Italicized)
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Discussion – How do
you get to school?
POD – Create a graph
about to analyze how
students get to school.
Ask students to
analyze the graph –
which mode of
transportation do the
most children take?
What does your car or
truck look like?
POD – Put some toy
vehicles or pictures of
vehicles around the
room and encourage
students to think,
draw, and write
about vehicles.
Discussion – Why do
we wear helmets,
elbow and knee pads?
POD – Bicycle Safety
Discussion- Down
By the Station
(song)
POD –Plan of the
Day
Benchmark:
26.A.ECc
Discussion – KWL for
next week
*POD Bumping up and
Down in my Little Red
Wagon (song)
Benchmark: 24.C.ECa
Benchmark: 26.A.ECc
Benchmark: 5.C.ECb
Benchmark: 11.A.ECd
Language Arts
Physical
Development
Story Time
Library
Cars! Cars! Cars!
*J- What color is your
car?
The Wheels on the Bus
*J-Have you ever
ridden on the bus?
Bicycles are Fun
*J- What kind of bike do
you have?
Trains
*J- If you were on a
train, where would
you go?
Rolling Along with
Goldilocks and the
Three Bears
*J- Do you know anyone
that uses a wheelchair?
Social Science
Small-Group
Activities
Puzzles
Benchmark: 6.A.ECa
Beading w/chenille
stems
Benchmark: 6.A.ECa
Peg Boards
Benchmark: 6.A.ECa
Geo Lacing Boards
Benchmark: 5.A.EC
Geo Rubber Band
Boards
Benchmark: 5.A.EC
Math & Science
Technology &
Discovery
Create a graph about
to analyze how
students get to school.
Ask students to
analyze the graph –
which mode of
transportation do the
most children take?
Sort vehicles and nonvehicles and discuss
why each item belongs
with its group.
Provide rulers, snap
cubes, blocks, etc. for
student’s to measure
toy and real vehicles.
Building
ramps
using unit blocks,
toy vehicles, Velcro
or tape and pictures
of ramps.
Show images or video
clips of vehicles
carrying cargo and/or
passengers.
Benchmark:7.C.ECa
Benchmark:
12.D.ECb
Benchmark: 8.A.ECa
Benchmark: 25.A.ECd
Benchmark: 11.A.ECd
Physical
Development
Outdoor
Classroom
Tricycles
Benchmark: 32.A.ECb
Scooters
Benchmark: 19.A.ECb
Tricycles
Benchmark: 32.A.ECb
Outdoor easel
painting
Benchmark: 26.B.EC
Wagon
Benchmark: 32.A.ECb
Fine Arts
Creative Arts
Car Tracks with paint
Provide chalk for
children to draw
vehicles and their
drivers.
Provide students with
paper, crayons, tape,
cardboard, scissors,
and boxes to create
props from the text.
Provide a variety of
shapes and encourage
students to glue them
together on paper to
make vehicles.
Sand & Water
Sensory Experiences
Water wheels in the
sensory and sand
table.
Which travels faster,
water or sand?
Cooking
Health/Safety/Nutrition
Bicycle Safety- Why we
wear helmets.
Provide collage
materials and
encourage students
to create threedimensional
vehicles.
Block
Open-Ended
Exploration
Building ramps for
our cars/trucks to
go up and down.
Benchmark: 26.B.ECa
*POD – Plan of
the Day
*J – Journaling
KWL – Know,
Want, Learn
Dramatic Play
Talk about foods that
arrive on vehicles. For
example, if eating
bananas, talk about
how those bananas get
from where they are
grown to the city. If
Benchmark: 24.C.ECa
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Family Involvement

Share
vacation
photos
eating apples, talk
about how apples get
to the city.
Benchmark: 12.D.ECb
Individual Goals
Notes(reminders, changes)
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Benchmark:
12.D.ECb