| Developmental Areas | Materials | Methods |
| Social Hand and Foot Painting Winter Hat Craft Hand Print Mittens | Paint and paper Pom-poms, glue, hat Paint, paper | The children are going to paint with their hands and their feet. This will show the children the size of their hands and their feet side by side. The children will be designing their own winter hats. They will color their hat and glue pom-poms on it when complete. The children will have cut out traced mittens. They will choose a color of paint and put their hand print in the mitten to go along with their hat. |
| Emotional Parts of our Face Body Awareness Animal Hats | Face sheets Sheet of paper Paper, googol eyes | This will be an activity that children will do independently. There will be different parts of the face on the table and the children can decorate the face by adding eyes, nose, ears, mouth and hat. The child’s body will be traced on a piece of paper. After the children can visually look at their body size on the paper. The children will choose their favorite animal and create their own animal hats. When the hats are made, the children will be able to wear them and imagine themselves as that animal. |
| Physical (Fine & Gross Motor) Move Your Body Face Creation Nail Painting Animal Hop Scotch | Gross motor dice Different shapes to create a face, glue, paper Paint, Paint brush Animal feet | The children will have two dice. One dice will have parts of the body on it and the other dice will have actions. The children will roll both dice and complete the following action that the dice shows them. Children will be given a variety of shapes to create a face. The children will glue the shapes on the face and see what they can create. The children will be given a trace out of a hand with nails. They are going to paint the nails on the hand as if they were painting their own nails. There will be different animal feet taped onto the floor. The children will be jumping back and forth on the different animal feet. |
| Language All of Me Song Books about the Body Animal Sounds | No materials Children literacy books about body Images of animals | The children will learn the song All of Me. This song will allow the children to sing and move their bodies. During circle time the children are going to listen and view books about the body. The children will be able to connect with the book by matching their parts to what the book represents. The children will be shown a variety of different animals. They are going to tell me what they think the animal is and what sound it makes. The children will also listen to different sounds on our amazon dot and guess what animal they think it is. |
| Cognitive Heads and Tails Fish letters Sticker Sort | Brown Bear, Brown Bear heads and tails puzzle pieces Paper Colored stickers, color paper | The children have been interested in our Brown Bear, Brown Bear book. This activity will have different animals from the book and will be cut in half. The children have to match the animal’s heads with their bodies. The children are going to be given a fish with a letter on it. The children are going to color the fish and then we are going to glue the fish on a piece of paper. The children will see their fish on the wall and will be able to say the letter and color that goes with the fish they created. The children will be given colored stickers. They will peel the sticker off and put it on the matching color of paper on the wall. |
| Art/Sensory x3 Pool Noodle Boats Float or Sink Fish Tank Slime Water | Pool noodles, straws, paper Different classroom items Water beads, fish creatures Slime, water creatures | The children will be building their own boat out of pool noodles. We will then float our boats in a water sensory bin. We are going to have a bucket of water. We are going to find things around the classroom and vote if we think they are going to float or sink. We will then test out our hypothesis. We are going to fill our sensory bin with water beads and add toy fish. The children will get to play in the bins with the beads and we will call it our classroom fish tank. The children will be able to play in slime with water creatures mixed in. |
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