Showing posts with label Hooked on Phonics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hooked on Phonics. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Preschool Lesson Plans: Earth Day Theme

Well, We are still working on the Earth Day theme, supplementing with fundamental concepts.

After we read a short online story, Drippy the RainDrop about the water cycle, we worked on our Hooked On Phonics for a bit, and then practiced with a file folder game I printed from Preschool Printables.
Monkey girl really enjoyed the game, and showed how well she recognised the letters.

We then moved on to vocabulary words. This is new and, unlike what you remember in elementary school, I don't expect her to read or spell the words, just have a basic understanding of them. I have them written out because the more print you expose children to, the better. The more they see letters grouped into words, the more concrete the idea of reading and writing becomes.


Emily decided she wanted to practice writing so she practiced on her dry erase board. She is doing well with p, e o, and c right now.

Then we made a recycling collage by taking old magazines and cutting them and gluing them into an art collage. Of course artistic Emily loved this. She loves cutting and gluing. And it reinforced the theme of recycling. (Her geeky dad was excited she picked the Star Trek ad to put on her artwork.)


Finally, we talked about recycling and our trip to the local recycling center we will go on next week. we are starting to recycle in our house and will be graphing this. Graphing reinforces math concepts of more, less, and equal to in a very visual way that is understandable for preschoolers.

Monday, January 14, 2008

Preschool Lesson Plans: Challenging Gifted Preschoolers

It is a teacher's job to understand what each child needs to be challenged in the preschool classroom and adjust the lesson plans accordingly. With some of our students, we get to our wits end because they are so much more advanced that the others. Some say "it's preschool, just move them up", but the problem with that is the child is likely not advanced socially enough to move up.

But how do we help everyone? Well we add to our classroom a few more challenging activities. During a quiet time, take that under-challenged child aside and work on adding or reading. I found something, that may help in that instance: Get Ready to Read-Letter Names
and Get Ready to Read-Letter Sounds.
For the most part, they look like good tools. I haven't used it yet but I think I might look into it for my daughter.

If you have used it feel free to let me know what you thought!

Happy Teaching!