Jr Pre Weekly Lesson Plan Theme: Winter Sports Objective Circle Time & Language and Literacy Nature and Science Monday Gross Motor Development Wednesday Friday Book: Sam Usher Snow
Book: The 12 Days of Winter
Book: Snow Angels
Today we will discuss many different winter sports as a class. We will look for rhyming words in our book today. We will match capital letters to lower case letters using our mitten letter match up. Today we will practice learning opposites at circle time. We will complete a journal page about what is our favorite winter sport. Objective & Goal: 17a, 9d, 10a&b We will have magnet dolls available for dressing up in warm clothing. Objective & Goal: 17a, 15a&b
Our light table was available for exploring nature cards. Objective & Goals: 17a, 8a&b, 9a‐c
We will experiment with ice, water, food coloring, and salt today. Objective and Goal: 17a, 10a&b
Today we will examine the weather patterns for this week. Objective & Goal: 26d We will play dress up and put on nice and warm winter clothes. Objective & Goal: 24a‐h
Today we make hockey sticks and play mini hockey on ice. We will practice tracing our names today. Objective & Goal: 28a&b, 25b
Today we will make ice skating figurines out of pipe cleaners to dance on ice. Objective & Goal: 36a‐d, 7a
Puzzles will be available for taking apart and piecing together. Objective & Goal: 17a, 16a&b Today we will mix baby oil, white paint, water, glitter, and Alka‐Seltzer to make a snow storm in a jar. Objective & Goal: 24a‐h
Bookmobile! We will exchange our borrowed books. Objective & Goal: 30b, c, &g
We will practice our ABC's in Sign Language today. Objective & Goal: 36a‐d, 7a
We will lace with string using our winter theme wooden lacers. Objective & Goal: 7b Today we will play Simon Says practicing following directions. Objective & Goal: 7a
We will run and play on our outdoor play equipment weather permitting. Objective & Goal: 7a
Today we will pretend to be an ice skater. Objective & Goal: 7a
We will play dodge ball using foam balls. Objective & Goal: 27a&b
Today we will use white foam balls while pretending to have a snowball fight. Objective & Goal: 36a‐d, 6
Today we will take apart and piece together our large America floor puzzle. Objective & Goal: 7a, 11a‐d
We will run and play on our outdoor play equipment weather permitting. Objective & Goal: 4‐6
We will play our different number matching games today. Objective & Goal: 4, 5, 36a‐d
Today we will play a polar bear size sequence game. Objective & Goal: 4‐6
Today we will count and recognize our numbers 1‐10 snowmen Objective & Goal: 4‐6
Today we will complete an: “Our Favorite Sports” graph. Objective & Goal: 20c, 13
We enjoy music with Ms. Anna today! Objective & Goal: 22
We will sing, “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Objective & Goal: 20a&c
We will listen to music on our CD player today. Objective & Goal: 20a‐c, 24i
We will dance and sing to the “Tooty‐Ta.” Objective & Goal: 34a‐c
Today we will make a mini hockey sticks and decorate them. Objective & Goal: 34c
We will draw a picture using crayons/markers and paper. Objective & Goal: 34a‐c, 35a‐d
We will paint our favorite winter sports at the easel. Objective & Goal: 33g, 7a
Sand and sea shells will be a center to explore. Objective & Goal: 33a‐g
We will have ice, water, and salt and a large spoon to break ice. Objective & Goal: 33a‐g
Today we will have a bucket filled with soapy water. Objective & Goal: 11d Objective & Goal: 11d Objective & Goal: 11d Objective & Goal: 4, 8a&b We will count and recognize our Cognitive & numbers on hats. Math Creative Art Objective & Goal: 20a&c We will sing “Knock‐Knock Olympics.” Objective & Goal: 34a‐c, & 35 a‐d We will use frozen water colors to ice paint. Sensory Objective & Goal: 33a‐g Today we will have snow available for sensory. Objective & Goal: 34a‐c & 35a‐d
We will make a snowboarder using pipe cleaners. Objective & Goal: 33g, 7a
Today we will have winter animals with ice and water Objective & Goal: 11d Objective & Goal: 11d Music & Movement Thursday Book: Kitten's Winter
Social Studies & Dramatic Play Objective & Goal: 36a‐d Fine Motor Development Tuesday Book: Winter and Snow Enrichment Programs: Sign Language and Spanish: Country of the Month Activity: Monday: Numbers in Spanish Tuesday: Ice Skating/Patinaje Sobre Hielo
Wednesday: ABC's in Sign Language Thursday: Hockey/(same) Friday: Colors and numbers in Spanish
In honor of our country of the month, Spain, we read a cute children’s book entitled: The Little Matador. Cooking/Nutrition Activity:
We will mix together baby oil, white paint, water, glitter, and Alka‐Seltzer to make a snow storm in a jar! Jr Pre Weekly Lesson Plan Theme: Winter Sports Enrichment Programs: Sign Language and Spanish: Country of the Month Activity: Monday: Numbers in Spanish Tuesday: Ice Skating/Patinaje Sobre Hielo
Wednesday: ABC's in Sign Language Thursday: Hockey/(same) Friday: Colors and numbers in Spanish
In honor of our country of the month, Spain, we read a cute children’s book entitled: The Little Matador. Cooking/Nutrition Activity:
We will mix together baby oil, white paint, water, glitter, and Alka‐Seltzer to make a snow storm in a jar! Jr Pre Weekly Lesson Plan Theme: Circus Objective Areas Circle Time & Language and Literacy We will take turns telling the class about our weekends. Nature & Science Social Studies & Dramatic Play Fine Motor Development Gross Motor Development Cognitive & Math Music & Movement Creative Art Sensory Monday Book: Circus Train Tuesday Wednesday Book: Circus Ship and Circus Shapes Book: Animals Everywhere and The Secret Circus Today we will look for shapes in our book and name each. We will name all the animals we can find while reading our book. Thursday Friday Book: If I Ran the Circus Book: ABC Circus
We will look for rhyming words in our Dr. Seuss book and repeat them. Today we will read a book about our country of the month, Dubai, and discuss. Objective & Goal: 17a, 15a&b
We will observe how gravity can hold objects in a bucket when swung upside down! Objective & Goal: 26d, 24h
We will pretend to be clowns with fun new dress up clothes. Objective & Goal: 17a, 10a&b
Today we will examine the weather patterns for this week. Objective & Goal: 36a‐d
Pipe cleaners and colanders were out for creating fun sculptures with today! Objective & Goal: 7a
We will run and jump through “the ring of fire” hula hoop today. Objective & Goal: 32c
Today we take apart and piece together our large America floor puzzle. Objective & Goal: 7a, 11a‐d
We will run and play on our outdoor play equipment weather permitting. Objective & Goal: 4 & 5
We will play our different circus number matching games today. Objective & Goal: 4, 5, 6
Today we will play ABC Bingo with our teachers and friends. Objective & Goal: 13, 20c
Today we learned, “The Animal Fair” song. Objective & Goal: 11a‐d, 16a&b
Today we sang our ABC’s and used Sign Language too! Objective & Goal: 34a‐c, 35a‐d
Our art easel was available for creative art. Objective & Goal: 17a, 10a&b We will explore which objects sink and float in our water table with different toys. Objective & Goal: 24a‐h We will pretend to be fire fighters putting our fires with our buckets of water during splash day. Objective & Goal: 36a‐d We will have chalk art available for drawing on our splash pad. Objective & Goal: 17a, 8b, 21b
Our light table was available for exploring nature cards. Objective & Goal: 17a, 8a&b, 9a We will play with our animal toys and put on a circus act. Objective & Goal: 28a&b, 25b
We will help make a ticket booth and pretend to buy and sell tickets. Objective & Goal: 36a‐d
We will use our fine motor skills by cutting with scissors. Objective & Goal: 25b, 36a‐d Bookmobile! We will exchange our borrowed books. Objective & Goal: 7a&b We will exercise our leg muscles while riding our tricycles. Objective & Goal: 7a
We will have a ball and baskets for playing ball toss. Objective & Goal: 7a
We will use our legs, arms and stomach muscles on the swings. Objective & Goal: 4, 5, 6 Our pattern beads were out for creating simple AB patterns with today. Objective & Goal: 23 “Casey Jr.” the circus train from Dumbo was a fun song we danced to today! Objective & Goal: 35a‐d Chalk was available for drawing on our splash pad. Objective & Goal: 5, 6
Where is the puppy? We discussed spatial relationships: over, under, beside, etc. with a stuffed animal. Objective & Goal: 21a
“The Carnival Song” was a fun circus instrumental song we danced with colorful scarves to. Objective & Goal: 35a‐d
We will make a clown hat today with a variety of art supplies. Objective & Goal: 33a‐g We will splash and play in the water during splash day. Objective & Goal: 6
We will count how many times our ball makes it into the basket and keep a tally score. Objective & Goal: 20a
Music class with Ms. Anna is a fun way for us to learn new music and revisit favorites! Objective & Goal: 34a‐c, 35a‐d
We will paint paper plates for making circus rings for our “ring toss” game. Objective & Goal: 33a‐g
Play dough was available for squishing and molding today. Objective & Goal: 33a‐g
Sand and sea shells will be a center to explore. Objective & Goal: 34a‐c, 35a‐d
Black and white finger paint and large paper were out for creating grey paint for elephants! Objective & Goal: 33a‐g
Musical instruments will be available for exploration today. Objective & Goal: 11d Objective & Goal: 11d
Objective & Goal: 11d
Objective & Goal: 11d
Objective & Goal: 30b, c, &g
We will play a game stacking cups as high as we can. Objective & Goal: 27a&b
USA day! We will name and locate some of our states on the class map Objective & Goal: 33a‐g
Today we will have a bucket filled with soapy water and wash rags to clean our baby doll toys with. Objective & Goal: 11d
Enrichment Programs: Sign Language and Spanish:
Monday: Train/Tren Tuesday: Ball/Pelota Wednesday: Dog/Perro Thursday: Elephant/Elephante Friday: ABC’s in Sign Language
Country of the Month Activity:
This week we will observe pictures of the circus in Spain and describe what we saw. Cooking/Nutrition Activity:
This week we discussed how milk was good for our bones and teeth to help us grow strong! Jr Pre Weekly Lesson Plan Theme: Circus Enrichment Programs: Sign Language and Spanish:
Monday: Train/Tren Tuesday: Ball/Pelota Wednesday: Dog/Perro Thursday: Elephant/Elephante Friday: ABC’s in Sign Language
Country of the Month Activity:
This week we will observe pictures of the circus in Spain and describe what we saw. Cooking/Nutrition Activity:
This week we discussed how milk was good for our bones and teeth to help us grow strong! Jr. Pre Weekly Lesson Plans
Theme: Arctic Animals
Objective Areas
Circle Time &
Language and
Literacy
Nature and
Science
Social Studies &
Dramatic Play
Fine Motor
Development
Gross Motor
Development
Cognitive &
Math
Music &
Movement
Creative Art
Sensory
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Book: Arctic Hares
We will introduce our new theme
“arctic animals” and talk about the
arctic habitat and what it means.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 10a&b
We will discuss different
temperatures that animals live in
and if they live in the arctic or not.
Objective & Goal: 25b&d
We imagined that we were arctic
animals and discussed what we ate
and where we would live.
Objective & Goal: 14a&b, 36b-d
Today we will take turns cutting
out our favorite coloring page.
Book: Seals
Book: See What a Seal Can Do
Book: Diego Arctic Rescue
Book: Penguins, Penguins Everywhere!
Today we will talk about the letter
“d” and what sound it makes.
Today we will find words that start
with the letter “d.”
Today we will discuss rhyming words
from our story.
Today we will name different arctic
animals and clap the syllables for each.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 16a&b
Pipe cleaners and magnets were
available for exploration.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 16a&b
Which two colors will make green?
Let’s experiment and guess!
Objective & Goal: 17a, 15a & b
A large tub of water and our “arctic”
sea animals were available for play.
Objective & Goal: 26d
Today we will discuss the country
of the month and review what we
have learned.
Objective & Goal: 30a
Beads and laces were available for
stringing today.
Objective & Goal: 24a, b, d, e & h
Bookmobile today! We will pick a
book from the Bookmobile to care for
and share books with our friends.
Objective & Goal: 30b
Today we will trace the letter “D.”
Objective & Goal: 25b
Our dollhouse will be available for
imaginative play.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 15d
Which animal weighs the most? We
will discuss different animals and use
our scale and animal toys to find out!
Objective & Goal: 28a, 22
Today we will pretend to be
professional cooks in our kitchen
center!
Objective & Goal: 36a
Potato Picasso! We enjoyed creating
funny faces with our potato head toys.
Objective & Goal: 7a
We will practice waddling like a
penguin and crawling like a polar
bear!
Objective & Goal: 4, 5
How many arctic animals can you
name? We will list different arctic
animals and count them.
Objective & Goal: 20a & c
Today we will sing the cookie jar
song to get our new teacher Ms.
Ashley familiar with our names.
Objective & Goal: 34a-d
We will make a polar bear today
using paper plates, cotton balls,
and pom-poms.
Objective & Goal: 33d & e
We created our own snow today
using baking soda and shaving
cream!
Objective & Goal: 11d
Objective & Goal: 7a
Today we will learn how to play
hopscotch and work on jumping
skills.
Objective & Goal: 4, 5
We will play a game of bean bag
toss and sort the bean bags by
color.
Objective & Goal: 13
We will enjoy our music class with
Ms. Anna today!
Objective & Goal: 7b
We will try to see how many paper
plates we can balance on our heads
today!
Objective & Goal: 4, 5
Today we will play simple adding and
subtracting games with groups of
objects.
Objective & Goal: 20a-c, 11a-c
We learned a new song by Raffi
today: “Baby Beluga.”
Objective & Goal: 34a-c, 35a-c
Let’s make a walrus! We will use
paper and yarn for our art creation
today.
Objective & Goal: 33c & e
Today we will draw our names as
we play with our shaving cream.
Objective & Goal: 34a
It’s a whale of an art project as we
explore how to make whales using
our shapes and paper bags.
Objective & Goal: 33a & e
Goop was available for sensory
exploration today.
Objective & Goal: 11d, 7b
Objective & Goal: 11d
Objective & Goal: 36a
Today we will exercise our fine
motor skills while playing with our
pegs and peg boards.
Objective & Goal: 7a
We will walk in a zig zag, straight,
and curvy line today!
Objective & Goal: 4, 5
Today we will observe our
classroom clocks and discuss how
the hands point to the times.
Objective & Goal: 20a & c
“Animal Action is so much fun!” We
pretended to be different animals to
Greg and Steve Listen and Move CD.
Objective & Goal: 35a-c
I’m a person and live in a house
made of ice. Who am I? We found
out during art today.
Objective & Goal: 33c
We scooped and explored textures
of dry pasta and beans in our
sensory table.
Objective & Goal: 11d
Objective & Goal: 7a
Today we will play catch using
softballs.
Objective & Goal: 6
How many boys and girls are in class
today? Today we will count all of the
boys and girls in our classroom.
Objective & Goal: 20a
Kid’s choice! We will sing along as
each child leads us in their favorite
songs.
Objective & Goal: 34b
Today we will make our own arctic
animal using our imaginations.
Objective & Goal: 33a-g
Today we will sensory bottles and
observe effects when shaken in our
science center.
Objective & Goal: 11d, 7a
Enrichment Programs:
Sign Language and Spanish:
Country of the Month Activity:
Cooking/Nutrition Activity:
Monday: Rabbit/Conejo
We learned interesting facts
about our country of the month,
Spain, viewing real-life pictures
in our book, Spain.
This week we will discuss easy
recipes for daily nutritious
snacks.
Tuesday: Fox/Zorro
Wednesday: Owl/Buho, Snow/Nieve
Thursday: Whale/Ballena
Friday: Penguin/Penguino
Jr. Pre Weekly Lesson Plan
Theme: Winter Weather
Objective Areas
Circle Time &
Language and
Literacy
Nature and
Science
Social Studies &
Dramatic Play
Fine Motor
Development
Gross Motor
Development
Cognitive &
Math
Music &
Movement
Creative Art
Sensory
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Book: The First Day of Winter
We will discuss our new theme and
talk about things we like to do in
the winter time.
Book: Snow Boy
Book: Mouse’s First Snow
Book: The Snowy Day
Book: Signs of Winter
Today we will play “every letter
makes a sound” Leap Frog game.
We will take turns spelling our names
today.
Today we will clap syllabically to our
first and last names.
We will write in our journals what we
have learned about winter this week.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 10a & b
We placed a piece of ice in a bowl
of water and used a string to pick
up the ice with salt to help it stick!
Objective & Goal: 24b-h
Today we will dress up in our
dramatic play center and dress for
a winter ball!
Objective & Goal: 14a & b
We exercised our fine motor skills
as we played with pegs and our
peg boards today.
Objective & Goal: 7a
Today we will play “Mother May
I?” with our friends.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 16b
Magnifying glasses, rocks, and shells
were available at the science table
for exploration today.
Objective & Goal: 26a
Our dollhouse was available for
imaginative play today.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 16a & b
Today we marked the weather on our
chart and discussed this week’s
pattern of weather so far.
Objective & Goal: 27a
Bookmobile today! We will choose a
book to care for, share, and enjoy.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 15d
Scales were available for weighing
different items from the shape box.
Objective & Goal: 17a, 19b, 12a & b
Magnets were available at our science
table for exploring magnetic forces.
Objective & Goal: 36a-d
Let’s build a train station! Our train
table will be available for track
construction today.
Objective & Goal: 7a
We enjoyed a fun game of kickball in
our gym today.
Objective & Goal: 30a, c & g
Colorful pipe cleaners and beads
were available for making bracelets.
Objective & Goal: 28b
We will use our classroom map to
name some of the states in our
country.
Objective & Goal: 32c
Button boards were available for
fine motor practice.
Objective & Goal: 4, 5
“Can you find the match?” Today
we will play a number matching
game.
Objective & Goal: 12a, 13
Today we are going to practice our
songs for the Christmas program.
Objective & Goal: 6
Today we will observe our clocks
and complete examples of times on
our toy clock.
Objective & Goal: 22
We will enjoy our music class with
Ms. Anna today!
Objective & Goal: 26d
We will pretend to put on a puppet
show for our friends to talk about what
we learned about winter.
Objective & Goal: 36a-c, 14a
Today we explored our gear toys and
practiced moving them in different
ways.
Objective & Goal: 7a
Ready, get set, go! We will have a race
to see who runs the fastest in our gym
today!
Objective & Goal: 4, 6
Wooden blocks were available for
problem solving how to create
structures without them falling down.
Objective & Goal: 11a-c
We will learn the “Little Snowflake”
song today.
Objective & Goal: 34a & b
Cotton balls, crayons, and paper
were available for creative art
today.
Objective & Goal: 33e & f
Today we will play with our
colorful rice and scoops.
Objective & Goal: 34a & b
In today’s art activity we will use
cotton balls, paper, and plastic
bottles creating a penguin.
Objective & Goal: 33e & g
Today we will play in our science
center and explore all of our sensory
bottles.
Objective & Goal: 11d, 7a
Objective & Goal: 11d, 7a
Objective & Goal: 7a
Today we will toss around the
number cube and call out the number
it lands on.
Objective & Goal: 6
Color bowls and bears will be
available for grouping objects by color
today.
Objective & Goal: 13
We will have a center open as we
listen to Christmas music and dance.
Objective & Goal: 7a
Our bean bag toss will be available
in the gym today.
Objective & Goal: 35a
It smells good, but we can’t eat it!
We made cinnamon ornaments
today.
Objective & Goal: 33a-g
Shaving cream was available for
practicing writing skills.
Objective & Goal: 6
We played “add one, take one”
game with food from our counting
cans game learning early math skills.
Objective & Goal: 20a-c
Kid’s choice! We will sing along as
each friend leads us in their favorite
song.
Objective & Goal: 34b
How tall will our snowman be? We
found out today making snowmen
with our names.
Objective & Goal: 33a, c & e
Today we will enjoy smelling and
feeling pretend snow.
Objective & Goal: 11d, 7b
Objective & Goal: 11d, 7b
Objective & Goal: 34a
Today we made our favorite winter
craft using markers and paper.
Objective & Goal: 33a, e, & g
Sand and sea shells were available for
sensory exploration today.
Objective & Goal: 11d
Enrichment Programs:
Sign Language and Spanish:
Country of the Month Activity:
Cooking/Nutrition Activity:
Monday: Winter/Invierno
This month we will focus on the
country of Spain, and we will
locate it on our classroom globe.
This week we will enjoy some
delicious and fruity snow cones!
Tuesday: Snowflake/Cope de Nieve
Wednesday: Snow/Nieve
Thursday: Cold/Frio
Friday: Snowman/Muneco de Nieve