GO PLAY! (NONE OF THIS RESEARCH IS MINE)

The American Academy of Pediatrics Position Paper
"Play allows children to use their creativity while developing their imagination, dexterity, and physical, cognitive, and emotional strength. Play is important to healthy brain development. It is through play that children at a very early age engage and interact in the world around them. Play allows children to create and explore a world they can master, conquering their fears while practicing adult roles, sometimes in conjunction with other children or adult caregivers."

National Association of Early Childhood Specialists In State Departments of Education Position Statement
(Recess and the Importance of Play)
"Recess contributes significantly to the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive (intellectual), developmentof the young child (Clements, 2001). Recess is one of the few places and times during the day when all these developmental domains are utilized in a context that children view as meaningful."

National Association for the Education of Young Children Position Statement
(Developmentally Appropriate Practice)

"Play is an important vehicle for children's social, emotional, and cognitive development, as well as reflection of their development."

Texas Department of State Health Services
(Recommendation of Research on Recess and Physical Activity: Impact on Student Health and Academic, Social, and Emotional Development)

"Play, both structured and unstructured, has been shown in an extensive body of research to have positive benefits for physical, emotional, and cognitive domains of child development. Benefits of physical activity and play have also been demonstrated in the areas of academic achievement, problem-solving skills, social skills, student engagement and physical health."

NONE OF THIS RESEARCH IS MINE.

Recycleables From Home for Classroom Contribution

We can use all of these in our class and throughout the center. We will always be accepting these! Greatly appreciate them!

• Clear Plastic Bottles
• Plastic Peanut Butter Jars
• Plastic Mayo Jars
• Butter/Margarine Tubs
• Cool Whip Tubs
• Yogurt Containers
• Plastic Detergent Scoops
• Milk Jug Caps
• Paper Towel Rolls
• Boxes (all sizes)
• Artificial Flowers
• Magazines
• Catalogs
• Cardboard
• Unwanted paper and envelopes
• Stickers
• Mailing Tubes
• Calendars
• Play Phones (old cell phones)
• Seashells
• Pine Cones
• Wood scraps
• Yarn, Ribbon
• Netting, Lace
• Fabric Scraps
• Wallpaper Samples
• Carpet squares
• pvc pipe and connections
• dress up clothes (male and female)
• shoes, purses, vests, ties, scarves, costumes, gloves, hats
• Hair dryers, curling irons (Broken/not working is great)
• Oatmeal/Pringles Cans

Letter H Lesson Plans

Circle Time Songs

• H Makes Me Happy
• Hammer Song
• My Hands
• H is for Hugs
• Humpty Dumpty

Story Time

• Happy Birthday Moon (Frank Asch)
• My Hands (Alibi)
• Bed Hogs (Kelly S. Di Pucchio and Howard Fine)
• House for Hermit Crab (Eric Carle)
• A Picture for Harold's Room (Crockett Johnson)
• Hippos (Sally M Walker)

Art

• Heart Fishes
• Hats
• "H" House for Alphabet Book
• Handprints
• Hay Collage (with Raffia)

Math: Heart Matching
Science: Height and Growth
Fine Motor: Trying on Hats
Gross Motor: Hokey Pokey

Key Vocab

• Heart
• Happy
• Height
• House
• Hat

Letter E Lesson Plans

Circle Time Songs

• E, E, What Do You See?
• Easy Listening Music
• Three Eggs
• Head Shoulders Elbows Toes

Story Time

• Eensy-Weensy Spider (Mary Ann Hoberman)
• The Ear Book (Al Perkins)
• Elmer (David McKee)
• Horton Hatches the Egg (Dr. Seuss)
• The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant (Jean Brunhoff)

Art

• Elephant "E" for Alphabet Book
• Eye Mask
• Elephant
• Elephant Ears
• Egg Patterns
• Elbow Stamping

Key Vocab

• Ear
• Elbow
• Eleven
• Eyes
• Egg

Math: Sorting into Egg Cartons
Science: Exploring Echoes
Fine Motor: Opening Envelopes
Gross Motor: Elbow Exercise

Have an Excellent Week!

-Ms Amber

Letter D Lesson Plans

Circle Time Songs

• Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs
• Dance Dance Dance
• Dig a Hole
• The D Song
• Days of the Week

Story Time

• One Duck Stuck (Phyliss Root)
• Dinosaur Time (Peggy Parish)
• Do You Want to be My Friend? (Eric Carle)
• Make Way for Ducklings (Robert McClowsky)
• Dumpy to the Rescue (Julie Andrews)

Art

• Dragon "D" for Alphabet Book
• diamond printing
• dinosaur counting book
• dots on dots on dots
• dirt collage

Key Vocab

• Door
• Dish
• Duck
• Dog
• Dinosaur

Math: Dice
Science: Dinosaur Dig
Fine Motor: Washing Dishes
Gross Motor: Dribbling Basketballs
Music: Drumming on Drums

Have a Darling Little Week

-Ms. Amber

Letter C Lesson Plans

Circle Time

• Shape Review
• Color Review
• Alphabet
• Counting to ten in English, French, and Spanish
• Who Came To School Today?
• Wish You Well

Circle Time Songs

• Here Is A Cave
• Colors of the Rainbow
• C Song
• Fuzzy Little Caterpillar

Story Time

• Carrot Soup
• Caps for Sale
• Corduroy
• Clifford, the Big Red Dog
• Clara Caterpillar

Art

• Cereal (Cheerios) Collage
• Cotton Ball Painting
• Coffee Filter Rainows
• Car Tracks
• Caterpillar "C" for Alphabet Book
• Corn Rolling
• Carrot Prints

Key Vocab

• Car
• Cup
• Cow
• Candy
• Cat

Math: Sorting Colors
Science: Changing Colors
Fine Motor: Coffee Grounds Sensory Box
Gross Motor: Crab Walk
Music: Clapping Game

C Song
(Skip to my Lou)

Carrots, Castles, Candy Canes
Cucumbers and clouds with rain
Cats and cookies, crayons too.
I think C is cool. Don't you?

By: Cathi Ulbright

Here is a Cave

Here is a cave
Inside is a bear.
Now he comes out,
To get some fresh air

He stays out all summer
In sunshine and heat
He hunts in the forest
For berries to eat.

When snow starts to fall,
He hurries inside
His warm little cave,
And there he will hide.

Snow covers the cave,
Like a fluffy white rug,
Inside the bear sleeps
All cozy and snug.

Letter B Lesson Plans

Circle Time

• Color Review
• Shape Review
• Alphabet
• Counting to Ten in English, French, and Spanish
• Who Came To School Today
• We Wish You Well

Circle Time Songs

• Bear Went Over the Mountain
• Pretty Butterfly
• Four Number Birds
• Baa Baa Black Sheep
• Flitter Flutter Butterfly

Story Time

• Big Red Barn
• The Bugliest Bug
• Bunny Cakes
• Busy Toes
• Bonjour Butterfly

Art

• Bumble B's
• Book of Shapes
• Butterfly Baggies
• Bubble Prints
• Block Printig
• Bandaid Collage
• Blue Printing

Math: Counting Bell Dings
Science: Making Bubbles
Manipulatives: Boats and Water Play
Gross Motor: Bear Mouth Bean Bag Toss

Key Vocab

• Baby
• Banana
• Book
• Bubble
• Bird

Four Number Birds
(Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)

One little bird flying in the blue
Along comes another, now there are two
Two little birds perched high in a tree
Along comes another, now there are three.
Three little birds, see them swoop and soar,
Along comes another and that makes four.
(Diane Thorn)

Flitter Flutter Butterfly

Flitter flutter butterfly
way up high
flitter flutter butterfly
Through the sky,
Flitter flutter butterfly
Way down low,
Flitter flutter butterfly
Now where will you go?
(Judy Mullican)

Letter B
(Three Blind Mice)
Letter B
It is for me
It is for me
Bed Bear Bell
Basket and Beat
They all begin with the letter B
Letter B
Letter B

Two Blackbirds

There were two blackbirds
Sittin' on a hill
One named Jack
One named Jill

Fly Away Jack
Fly Away Jill

Come back Jack
Come back Jill

"A" Lesson Plans

Circle Time

• Shape Review
• Colors Review
• Alphabet
• Counting to Ten in English French and Spanish
• Who Came To School Today

Circle Time Songs

• Hurray For A
• Along Comes Mr. Alligator
• Here Is An Apple
• Row Your Boat
• Allouette!

Story Time
Alligator Alphabet
ABC Now You See Me
A is For Salad
Alligator Bear Crab
The Little Airplane

Art

• Alligator A's
• Apple Tree with Pom Poms
• Apple A Collage
• Applesauce Paint
• Airplane

Key Vocab

• Alligator
• Apple
• Airplane
• Apricot
• Allouette

Math: Sorting Apples and Apricots
Science: Astronaut in Space
Fine Motor: Alligator Claps
Gross Motor: Acrobatics
Music: All Aboard (Choo Choo March)

Have an Amazing Week

-Ms. Amber

"Green" Lesson Plans

Circle Time

• Shape Review
• Color Review
• Alphabet
• Counting to Ten in English French and Spanish
• Who Came To School Today
• Wish You Well

Story Time

• Blue hat, Green hat (Sandra Boynton)
• Go away, big green monster (Ed Emberley)
• Little Blue and Little Yellow (Leo Lionni)
• Green (Laura Vaccaro Seeger)
• Where Is the Green Sheep? (Mem Fox)
• Green Eggs and Ham (Dr Seuss)

Art

• Big Green Monster Painting
• Green Happy Trash Collage
• Yellow+Blue Painting
• Green Apple Stamp
• Green on Green

Math: Sorting Shades of Green
Science: Yellow plus Blue Handkerchief Soak
Gross Motor: Green Grass Grows all Around
Music: Green Hop Song

Have a Groovy Green Week

-Ms. Amber

G Lesson Plans

Circle Time

• Color Review
• Shape Review
• Alphabet
• Counting to Ten in English, French, and Spanish
• Who Came To School Today
• Wish You Well

Circle Time Songs

• G is for Gorilla
• Five Giants
• G,G, the Letter G
• Grandma's Glasses
• G Song

Story Time

• Goat and Donkey in Strawberry Sunglasses (Simon Puttock and Russel Julian)
• The Grouchy Ladybug (Eric Carle)
• Gilberto and the Wind (Marie Hall Ets)
• Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown)
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears (James Marshall)

Art

• Grandma's Glasses
• Glitter Grass and Glue "G"
• Gumdrop "G" for Alphabet Book
• Gumball machine
• Golf balls in green paint

Key Vocab

• Gum
• Gate
• Goat
• Grass
• Glue

Math and Science Activity: Guitar Sounds
Gross Motor: Galloping Gorillas
Fine Motor: Grass Picking

Social Skills

• Eating with utensils
• Using nice hands
• Keeping feet on the floor
• Sitting down for whole meal
• Using Sign Language and words to communicate (no grunting)

All books above are available at the Fayetteville Public Library

Looking forward to a Great Week!

-Ms. Amber

Letter F Lesson Plans

Circle Time

• Color Review
• Shape Review
• Alphabet
• Counting to Ten in English French and Spanish
• Who Came To School Today Cards
• We Wish You Well

Circle Time Songs

• Five Little Fish
• Five Green and Speckled Frogs
• The Fruit in My Mouth
• If You're Happy and You Know It
• The Farmer in the Dell

Story Time

• Freight Train (Donald Crews)
• Frederick (Leo Lionni)
• I'm a Fire Fighter (Mary Packard)
• A Froggy Fable (John Lechner)
• The Foot Book (Dr Seuss)
• Fish Eyes (Lois Ehlert)

Art

• Fishy Foil
• Fingerprint Painting
• Feather "F" Collage for Alphabet Book
• Footprints
• Fork Painting

Math and Science: Flashlight Fun
Fine Motor: Fish Faces
Gross Motor: Follow the Leader

Key Vocab (Words to Try)

• Fish
• Farm
• Foot
• Face
• Family

Continuing Goals/Social Skills:

• Using words and sign language to communicate
• Keeping Feet on the Floor
• Nice hands and safe Mouth
• Using Utensils to eat

Like most things in life, lesson plans are subject to change during the week.
All books above can be found at the Fayetteville Public Library.
Have a great weekend!

Ms. Amber

Letter F Lesson Plans

Hope you can read this!
Have a Fantastic Week :)
-Ms Amber