Planning Preschool Activites
If you were the teacher what activities would you do?
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What do you need to look at when developing your preschool lesson plan activities?
Activities that include all academic subject matter.
- Math
- Reading
- Writing
- Science
- Social Studies
- Arts
- Music
- P.E./ Health
Activities that include fine and gross motor function.
Activities that are creative and engaging.
Transitions
Fine motor skills examples
Fine motor skills are small movements — such as picking up small objects and holding a spoon — that use the small muscles of the fingers, toes, wrists, lips, and tongue.
Pom Pom Drop
This is a good activity for fine motor development because students will use the small muscles in their hands and fingers. This is a good use of sorting colors or sizes. It can also be used for counting and other math activities.
Cotton Ball Painting
Cotton ball painting can be used for math, writing, art and is also a good fine motor activity. Students pinch the cotton ball with clothes pins and dab it in the paint they then change cotton balls as they want to change colors.
Beading Threading, and Pinching
There are many activities that use small muscle groups in the hands and fingers.
Gross motor skills examples
Gross motor skills are the bigger movements — such as rolling over and sitting — that use the large muscles in the arms, legs, torso, and feet
Lower case scavenger hunt
Make a web and students will climb and crawl through it to find the lower case letters in order from a to z, or you could mix letters of upper and lower case as well as numbers instruct the student to find only the lower case. after they have found the letters then they can work to put them in order. This is good for gross motor function and development, as well as letter identification.
Target practice
Make a bulls-eye have the students toss a bean bag to the circle. Have a number in each ring. Tossing the bean bag is good for gross motor function and development. When they are finished tossing their bean bags they can write the numbers that they got and then add them and subtract them. Have them toss in groups of two and after figuring their simple math problems they can compare and decide who has the larger number and who has the smaller number. This makes is a good math and team work activity. Students get to work on communication and team building skills.
Number Maze
Put numbers in a specific path in number order after you have done this you will fill in the rest of the maze randomly careful to not put any numbers that will go together next to one another besides the ones you laid out first. The students are up and moving they have to determine which letter comes next so it is great for learning number order, it can also be used with letters of the alphabet.
Transitions help students move from one activity to another in an orderly way.
Examples of classroom transitions
Songs
Movement
Time warnings
Brain teasers
Call backs
Attention grabbers
Detailed Transitions
Power point of transition use and examples
Transitions can include welcoming and excusing your students in a special way.
Welcoming your students to class.
Welcoming Messages at the Door
Teacher Student Greeting
Greeters Leaders
Greeting Information
Source of information above.
Dismissal
Dismissals like greetings are a way of making the students feel welcome and seen. They need to be structured and organized. They can be any type of transition activity that brings the day to a close.
Dismissal A to Z Teacher
Resource for dismissal activities.
What you need to include in your in your presentation
- Three to five creative gross motor activities that include; a title, what subject they are for, a picture of the activity, and a brief description about how it applies to gross motor function.
- Three to five creative fine motor activities that include; a title, what subject they are for, a picture of the activity, and a brief description about how it applies to fine motor function.
- Five creative engaging transition activities, can include a special way that you welcome and dismiss your students.
- Two activities for each academic subject matter, there can be a combination of more than one subject per one activity. (For example if you were to watch a Dr. Jean. Jack Hartman, or Heidi video where the students will be up moving counting and singing, this would include three subjects Math, Music, and P.E.(Physical activity.)
- A brief introduction of yourself we will do this as an introduction to Smore.