I really enjoyed developing this plan and am planning to use this format for future lesson plans. This plan was intended to be carried out over the course of a week. The next one will be Bb for Butterflies.
Aa is for Ants
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1. Goals for children's learning and development.
- practice fine motor skills
- review colors black, brown and red
- appreciate the variety of color and form in nature
- look at pictures of different kinds of ant, noticing colors and other characteristics
- color pictures of ants using crayons and chalk
- make a model of an ant from egg cartons and pipe cleaners
- make a construction paper ant
- make a book of the drawn and colored pictures of ants to share with the class and parents
- help and encouragement with fine motor activities as needed
- age appropriate cutting utensils
- variety of choices in activities presented
- realistic pictures of ants
- printed pictures of ants to color
- drawing paper
- crayons/chalk
- scissors
- egg cartons
- pipe cleaners
- 3-ring binder
- sheet protectors
- construction paper
- glue sticks
- Visual-Spatial
- Bodily-Kinesthetic
1. goals for children's learning and development
- learn to follow instructions in a fun way
- children will learn to listen for different tempos in music - fast, slow - and move accordingly
- children will enjoy learning together through song
- learn the song "The Ants Go Marching"
- March in time to do the differing tempos in the song - slowing down and speeding up the tempos on different verses in the song
- sing the ant song and the As song together
- children may sing along or listen as desired
- children may march to the beat or clap as desired
- song sheets
- CD player
- Bodily-Kinesthetic
- Musical
- Interpersonal
- Linguistic
1. Goals for children's learning and development
- children will reinforce learned concepts and information through play
- children will play together cooperatively or will enjoy time playing alone - understanding that both choices are acceptable ways of spending time
- Plastic ants in block area as well as in the sensory area (rice/bean table).
- Ant puppets in the puppet area.
- various sizes of play ants will be used
- children will have choices between block play, sensory table and puppet area
- blocks
- rice/beans for sensory table
- ant toys in various sizes
- ant puppets
- Bodily - Kinesthetic
- Interpersonal
- Visual-Spatial
- Intrapersonal
- Logical-Mathematical
- Naturalistic
1. Goals for children's learning and development
- to foster literacy and the joy of reading
- to reinforce tracking from left to right when reading
- to allow children to enjoy and share the class book alone and with classmates and parents
- stock class library area with books, both fact and fiction, relating to ants. (Including the class book).
- provide a variety of book types and reading levels
- a wide variety of books about ants
- Verbal-Linguistic
- Intrapersonal
- Interpersonal
- Naturalistic
1. Goals for children's learning and develpment
- observe and learn about ants as they work and grow in ant farm as well as in their natural environment
- practice observation and counting skills
- set up and observe ant farm
- go outside and look for and count ants
- "Ants on a Log" snack - count the ants on each log
- providing a variety of activities to ensure that different needs and learning styles are addressed
- providing assistance and direction as each child needs and desires
- ant farm
- ants
- snack supplies - celery, peanut butter, cream cheese, raisins
- Bodily-Kinesthetic
- Interpersonal
- Logical-Mathematical
- Naturalistic
