Weekly Lesson Plan for a daycare center

Beginning to Know Ourselves and Others & Self, Family & Community/Aesthetic Creativity

Component (Goals):

Play, Explorations, & Routines: Basketball Bingo In advance, choose pictures that are basketball related:  Make up Bingo cards with 9 spaced on each card Teaching Strategies, Supports, & Materials; Glue 9 pictures on each Laminate. Be sure you make an extra picture for the calling cards! Materials needed: sneakers, basketballs, team jerseys, basketball nets, basketball courts, etc.

Beginning to Communicate & Literacy

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Play, Explorations, & Routines: Basketball Letters

Print letters on the balls or caps using a black marker.

Place in a bin. 

Teaching Strategies, Supports, & Materials. The children find the letters for their name to spell out!

Materials needed:  LOTS of orange ping pong balls OR orange milk/orange juice plastic caps.

Beginning to Build Concepts & Scientific

Conceptual Understanding/Numeracy

Components (Goals):

Play, Explorations, & Routines: Baseball Discovery

Place a few baseballs at your science table. Ask the children what they think is inside a baseball. List all their guesses.

Teaching Strategies, Supports, & Materials; Teacher will cut one open (in front of the children). Let them explore what the balls are made of.

Materials needed baseballs

Beginning to Move and Do & Physical

Development, Health & Well Being

Component (Goals):

Play, Explorations, & Routines. Plate Ball Tracing. The children place the plate on the table upside down (the part they typically put food in would be facing the table and they are doing this activity on the bottom of the plate). Teaching Strategies, Supports, & Materials: Have children draw red lines on a curve shape to be the baseball threads.  Teacher will also lightly trace the lines with pencil in advance for the children to trace over. Have them print their name. Materials needed: Sturdy paper plates (like Chinette brand), red thin markers

Approaches toward Learning

Component (Goals):

Play, Explorations, & Routines: PLAY (dough) BALL! Each child prints his/her name on a craft stick.  This is their baseball bat.

Teaching Strategies, Supports, & Materials; The children pinch and roll play dough into small baseballs. They will use their "bats" to hit the play dough into the muffin tins!

Materials needed: white play dough, muffin tins, large craft sticks (1 for each child), marker

Additional Experiences

Component (Goals):

Play, Explorations, & Routines. Basketball Tissue Collage

The children will trace the circle stencil on their white paper and cut out or they can draw their own large circle shape, They brush their circle with glue.

Teaching Strategies, Supports, & Materials. They cut (or rip) pieces of orange tissue paper and place on the circle. They cut (or rip) black pieces of tissue paper to make the black lines on the basketball. Materials needed: tissue paper, scissors, white construction paper, markers, 

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FRIDAY

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Activity & Strategy:. Sporting Goods Store

Play cash register and money; bags for purchases; paper to print receipts on; employee name badges.

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At circle time teacher will talk about and compare the different kinds of shoes that each sport used!

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Plans for Meals and Transition

Sugar Cookie Baseballs

Teacher will have the kids decorate with icing or whipped topping.

The kids will Sprinkle or pinch using their fingers, red sprinkles to make the red threads on the balls (or use small pieces of red licorice like Twizzlers thins).

Outdoor Environment and Explorations

GO BOWLING!

Teacher will take the kids on a field trip to go bowling!

Plans for Small Group and/or Individual Reading

PASS the Football Play a game of pass the football by bringing a real football, a book of football and a CD to circle time.

The children pass (not throw) or toss the ball to the person next to them while the teacher is reading the book.

When you stop reading, the child holding the football yells "TOUCHDOWN!".

Relationship Building and Family Involvement

Bowling, of course!

Teacher will ask parents if they can donate a plastic bowling set if they have any.

Modifications for Individual Children

For the children that doesn’t like to participate with the groups teacher will play the game “What's Missing”

On the floor in front of you, place football related items (shoulder pad, helmet, ball, jersey, knee pad) Cover with a blanket and remove one item. Have children guess which item is missing.

Reflections

What worked? What didn’t? What did you learn about individual children and group interests?

Plate Ball Tracing!!! This is great fine motor practice for them! 

Building a baseball or football stadium using blocks were a mess

You can focus on sports for a week and have a different sports focus in each interest center

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Plans

Summer Activities Theme

Paper Mache Hot Air Balloon

Lemonade Art

Sunflowers