Soon we will be beginning our "wild and woolly" Summer camp animal homes unit. This unit will allow students to explore the abodes of our fine feathered friends and our buck-toothed beaver compadres, but before we head into the wilderness, we have one more week of free choice lesson planning.
I have to say I am super jazzed about this because I live for lesson planning. I am obsessed with devising specific subject related plans that will produce and ignite a wiliness and exploration of learning in my kiddos.
Fun, hilarity, and downright wacky happenings will be occurring in my circle this week. We'll run the educational gamut from a fish with a canine twist to donkeys and goats who look spec-tacular in strawberry specs.
Check out some of the lesson plans that will be sure to tickle your students funny bones!
Dogfish Positional Words Activity (I drew the fish bowl and fish to resemble those within the book and used stickers for the fish eyes and a blue stamper to create fish bowl water.)
Subject: Language Arts: Understanding and recognizing positional words.
To Do: Place the fishbowl and "dogfish" (orange goldfish) in middle of circle. Explain to the students that you will ask them to place the "dogfish" all around the fish bowl. Each student will take a turn placing the fish above the fish bowl, below the fish bowl, on top of the fish bowl, next to the fish bowl, inside the fish bowl and so on.
Read before activity: Dogfish by Gillian Shields
Sunglasses Shape Matching Game (Created using leftover Accu-cut and Cricut diecut shapes)
Subject: Math- Recognizing shapes
To Do: Show a child in your group one of the pairs of sunglasses. Them him or her guess what shape is on the sunglasses. Show shape cards to younger preschoolers who are not able to readily recognize shapes during the activity. Continue giving each student a turn to guess the shapes found on each of the sunglasses.
Read before activity: Donkey and Goat in Strawberry Sunglasses by Simon Puttock and Russell Julian
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