Preschool Lesson Plans: Working the REAL Easter in to your Plans

This is irrelevant to many teachers, but it is what I am doing so I am going to post about it.

The theme for this week is Eggs, and Easter. We are sort of working on the letter E, but have also started the Hooked on Phonics for Preschool too. I'll let you know how it goes with that later.

Today we did our Resurrection Eggs that I found here. She has other Easter related activities and songs listed here.

Tonight we will be making eggs for supper. We will use this as a teachable moment in which we discuss how cooking changes the eggs, using eye hand coordination to scramble the eggs, and learn a sense of accomplishment when we eat what we created.

This week will end Saturday with an Egg Hunt. It is always good to mold your lesson plans around the events and experiences in your student's/ child's lives. This makes it all the more meaningful and relevant to their experience.

Preschool Lesson Plans: Febuary theme ideas you don't think about.

There are many ideas that have nothing to do with Valentine's Day for February. Here is a quick list of some that come to mind.

• Bakery unit. I have made a bakery in my class with paper chef hats in the home living center with different doughs they can pretend to bake with. I made a cookie matching folder game. Of course this lends it self to cooking activities and I did a day when we had class on the patio with the kitchens outside. I gave them flour water spices etc. and let them "make" what ever they wanted. This is so messy but so much fun and educational.
• Game Week. Have all kinds of board games, new games for the computer, and have a final game day with games outside or in a large area indoors if it is too cold.
• Have a summer in February day. Have the kids come in summery cloths have indoor picnics, beach days and the like. everyone is tired of winter and ready for a bit of summer fun even if it is just pretend.
  

Preschool Lesson Plans: Great Deals on Teaching Books

I know I haven't posted in a long long while. Sorry, I have been a bit busy having a new baby, but promise to try to be better.

But my reason for this post is what I saw in a Education Supply store the other day- the discount table. Most places have these, usually in the back. But after Christmas they have great deals on idea books for fall and winter. You can stock up now for next year for next to nothing. A lot of times they will have the Mailbox series. I love those. And they usually have classroom management ideas you can use year round.

So go shopping and keep your eyes peeled for those teacher deals! We all need deals right now!

Free Preschool Lesson Plan Ideas

A good bit of publishers of teacher resources tend to put free activities on their websites. And these are usually really good preschool lesson plan ideas. Here are a couple I use a lot.

Gryphon House

Mailbox Books

Teacher Created Materials

The ideas on Teacher Created Materials tend to be for elementary school, but it has some preschool. Look at the publishers of your favorite resource books, and many have free lesson planning ideas.

Preschool Lesson Plans: Free Theme Ideas

I have used Perpetual Preschool for preschool lesson plan ideas for years and it is invaluable. The content is free and thats great too. Click here to visit and get some ideas.