March 5-9 Lesson Plans

Twos Room Weekly Plans

March 5-9

**Orange shirt day Friday**

*Begin new curriculum: Eco-Exploring
    Letter: Y
    Shapes: comparing the triangle and circle
    Number: 7
    Color: Orange
   
7:00-8:00 Free Play:
    7:30 Diapers (Lizzet)

8:00-8:30 Breakfast
    Clean Up (Tammie)

8:30-9:00 Physical Activity (open space, dance party, balls, etc)

9:00-9:30 or activities with (Tammie-round table, Lizzet-rectangle table, and Maria-blue table)
Monday:  T-making letter Y, L- Letter recognition  , M- making the letter Y
Tuesday: T-collage, L- Number recognition 1-10,  M- activity with the number 7
Wednesday: T-yarn spider web, L- Color mixing to create different tints of orange , M- activity with stickers and the letter Y
Thursday: T-puzzles, L- Making our class pet, a jelly fish , M- collage with pictures that start with the letter Y
Friday: T-making faces, L- talking about spring and planting a seed , M- coloring with the color orange
    9:30 Diapers & Potty Visit(Tammie)

9:30-10:00 Music Circle Time: Maria, Meredith & Lizzet
*special-hot potato
-Begin with the “Who’s here today?” song
-sing ABCs
-Helper finds the letter of the week & sing letter song
-days of the week song
-Children pick songs or dances from the “song jar” and we all sing together with instruments.
-Counting to 13 in English and Spanish
-End with “I love you” and “Instruments away”

Hand Washing (Meredith)

10:00-10:30 AM Snack
    Clean Up (Lizzet)

Hand Washing (Maria)

10:30-10:50 Structured free play (small groups with Maria, Tammie, and Meredith)
Each group spends this time together in a certain area of the room.  We rotate from day to day where the group will be.  Choices are sorting colored puff balls, special books, felt board, matching games

10:50-11:15  Physical Activity (Tammie)
Monday: Simon says excersize
Tuesday:  Yoga practice
Wednesday: Jump the line
Thursday: crawling obstacle course
Friday: Yoga in 2 groups (15 minutes each), while other group does activity at the table
Yoga on carpet-Meredith and Tammie
-Lizzet: goop, play doh or puzzles
*End together doing “Little Yoga Clock” or ringing the bell

11/11:15 Potty Visit (Lizzet)
11:30 Diapers (Maria)

Activities (Meredith & Lizzet lead)
11:15-11:30 Center Activity 1
11:30 Switch
11:30-11:45 Center Activity 2

Monday: making goop, letter Y wall art, felt board flowers
Tuesday: M-sensory table(dirt, worms, and pretend flowers/seeds with shovels), L- Spring puppet show
Wednesday: textured nature painting
Thursday: L-sensory table (dirt, worms, and pretend flower/seeds with shovels), M-color of the week collage
Friday (11:15-11:30): Letter Y coloring sheets

11:45 Clean up the room and hand washing

11:50-12:00 Group Literacy Circle Time (Meredith & Maria)
-Old McDonald-one helper assists with puppets
-Finding letter of the week on the wall-one helper
-Book about friends
-5 Little Monkeys
-Do Your Ears Hang Low?
-Shake Your Sillies Out-dance
-American Sign Language:
help, yes, boy, girl, hungry, thirsty, please, thank you, friends, stop, happy

12:00 Lunch Time
    Set up (Lizzet & Maria)
    Clean Up & Washing hands (Meredith & Maria)

12:30 Potty Visit with Tammie

12:30-2:30 Nap Time
    2:30 Diapers & Hand Washing (Meredith) & Potty Visit (Tammie)

3:00 PM Snack
    Clean Up (Christina)
    Hand Washing (Meredith & Maria)

3:20-3:45 Individual Free Play: blocks, cars, books, kitchen, dress up

3:45 Clean Up Time

3:45 Afternoon Circle Time: Big Book (Christina)
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

4:00-4:30 Outdoor Time/ Free Play
    4:30 Diapers (Christina)
    4:30 Potty Visit (Meredith)

5:00 Table Activity (Meredith & Christina): puzzles, pretend grocery shopping, chalk art, stickers, felt board shapes

5:30 Clean Up

6:00 Pick Up