Umatilla - Morrow Head Start Lesson Plan - Community And Buildings (Month) Page 3
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Outside
Field trip: Going for
Bouncing a Ball
Hopping- Intentional
Ways to Travel-
Activity
(Comp)
neighborhood walk and
and Catching-
teaching Card P21
Intentional
look for shapes in houses
Intentional
Teaching Card
and buildings/ have
Teaching Card
Bouncing and catching
P23
children take pictures so
Balls (practicing skills
P19
you can make a book
from yesterday)
PH
Outdoor Easel
PH/AL
Riding Trikes
PH
Painting
PH/AL
Digging and pouring in
Blowing Bubbles
the Sand
PH
Making houses
PH
with cardboard
Painting the building
blocks, with sticks,
Building
with paintbrushes in
with “straw”
sandcastles
PH/AL
buckets of water
PH
(maybe from hay
bale or dried
grasses?)
AL
Small Group
Building with Legos:
Journal
Stringing Necklaces
Sorting and
Activity
(Comp)
PH
writing/Drawing:
Patterning:
M
Duplo size
group 1
Use colored pasta
Group
1- sort
Transition
Regular size
group 2
Have children
(liquid watercolor,
counters by color
Smallest
group 3
draw a picture of a
undiluted, dyes pasta
and size
community
well) and yarn or
Group
2- make
building they go
string. Encourage
patterns with
to- a store, post
children to make
colored wood
office, etc. Label
patterns and identify
attribute beads or
with the words
the colors they are
Unifix cubes
they describe it
using.
PH/AL/M
Group 3-
use
with
PH/SE/Lit/L
patterning blocks to
make pictures
Free Choice
Making community
Having children
Building a
Having materials
Activity
(Comp)
building blocks for your
draw pictures of
neighborhood in the
for children to build
block area by taping
the home they live
block area
AL
a house of straw, of
photos of real buildings
in
AL
“bricks” (legos) or
in your community over
sticks (twigs)
AL
blocks*
SE/PH
Building with Legos sets
Use manipulatives
Building house at tool
Finding matching
PH
like crystal magnet
bench with wood
colors with strips of
builders to make
scraps, hammer, nails
paint colors from
houses or
or glue
AL/PH
the hardware store
buildings
AL/PH
(thank you to Angie
H.)
AL
Making a collage of
Manupulating Play
Easel painting where I
Making sandcastles
houses and buildings
doh with tools
PH
live
PH/SE
in the sensory table
with torn paper and
AL/PH
scraps
PH/AL
Clean up song
Clean up song
Clean up song
Clean up song
Transition
Meal time
*See attached
(lunch)
explanation of how to
Conversation:
plan mealtime
conversations
Goodbye Group
Putting together a puzzle
Reading books in
Writing in journals in
Reading books in
Activity
in the circle area
PH/AL
the circle area
Lit
the circle area
Lit
the circle area
Lit
*Initials after activities indicate domains addressed. See above goal area.
*thanks to Shawna G. for this great idea!
*For mealtime conversations-
Mealtime is meant to be a time of learning and socialization, as well as a time of nutrition. Plan a target
question or skill for each mealtime utilizing the Menu that is sent to teachers at the beginning of each month. At
the beginning of each week, look at the menu for breakfast/snack and lunch. Based on what is being served,
decide on a question that will help children think about what they are eating, where it comes from, how it is
prepared. For example, for lunch the children are having pizza. One good question to ask each child is what
they like on their pizza. Another would be to ask them how they think pizza is made. When the menu includes
vegetables and fruits, ask them where they think they grow. You can talk about colors, shapes, and unique
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