Preschool Plans Week 1

I finally have my schedule down to a point where I want to have more direction in our preschool time. I have been scouring the internet for ideas during our group time. It seems that so many programs out there are geared to a child working on just a few aspects: letters, sounds, shapes, numbers. I wanted something that would address more than that. Remember that my littles are ESL (English as a second language) kids. Nathaniel has some catching up to do verbally. Also, I want a program that will be geared towards group time. My kids aren't ready to sit at a table working on worksheets. I also do not want to do a bunch of projects. I don't have the time to prep them all or to clean them up. (Thankfully, my wonderful neighbor does a craft with them twice a month) So, I picked around a few programs and came up with a flow of activities for us to work through.

I'm posting here to help keep me accountable.

Here's my plan for this coming week-

Preschool Lesson Plans

Week One

Preschool Time

Sing: God Made Me

Read: Children’s Bible: next story

Sing:  Jesus Loves Me

Verse for the week:  Proverbs 15:1

Pray

Theme: Cows (show picture) Give each child a plastic cow

Read: Cow book

Introduce vocabulary word: calf (show picture)

Gross motor: pretend to be a cow

Read: Cow book

Sing: Shake Your Sillies Out

Sing: ABC’s

Introduce letter A or review

Say A sound

Show pictures of words that start with A

Introduce number 1

Work on matching the number one to the card with one dot. Put one bear on dot.

Count bears to 10

Verbally count to 20

Make a pattern with counting bears

Go over prepositions: In/Out, On/Off, Under/Over, Beside (use bears with cups)

Recite Nursery Rhyme: Hey Diddle Diddle

Review color cards

Introduce diamond

Review circle, square, triangle, rectangle, heart

Tell name, age, boy or girl (Show name in print)

Opposites: Big and little (stand up to be big, crouch down to be little)

Smallest to largest: (bear cutouts)

Gross motor: Jump off stool

                Summersault

Sing: Slippery Fish

During Walks (This is 30 minutes of great verbal teaching time)

Sing: Days of the week, Months of the year, Phone number, Address

Recite: Nursery Rhyme (Hey Diddle Diddle)

Work on memory verse

During Table Activities (A great way to reinforce our group time)

Monday: Make the letter A and number one with playdoh

Tuesday: Color the letter A, pictures that start with A and the number one

Thursday: Dot paint letter A and the number one

Maybe this weekend I will add in the links to the websites that I have found helpful. The kids are ready to get up from nap time, so I must be off.