https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i Lesson Plans for Week of 4/20 through 4/24 en-us 2020-03-26 22:35:41 UTC 2025-12-15 22:19:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f970.png lilyclassroom01 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/480508836 9:00-Diapers/potties
930-Snack
945-10:15-morning meeting
1015-10:45- centers
10:45-10:55- clean up
10:55-11- get ready to go outside
11-11:45-outside
11:45-12- potties/diapers
12:00-1245-lunch/cleanup/get ready for nap
12:45-3: nap
3:00-3:30-potties/diapers
3:30-4 snack
4:00-430- centers
430-5- outside time
 

]]> 2020-03-29 14:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/480508836 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530456178 This week, let’s review the Spanish word for “water.” To say “water” in Spanish, say “agua.”]]> 2020-04-25 21:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530456178 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530456357 This week, let’s review the ASL sign for “water.” To make the sign “water,” make the sign for “w,” which is the first three fingers held up like the number three. Tap the pointer finger of that hand against your chin: water! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530456357 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530456588 This week, let’s work on a yoga flow from cat pose to cow pose that will help stretch out your back. Start on your hands and knees with your back flat like a table. Next, breathe in deeply and arch your back up like a cat, rounding it up and out. As you exhale, allow your back to relax and bow downwards, like a cow. Breathe in and out, arching and relaxing your back, for a couple of minutes. When you are done, check in with your body. How do you feel? Are you more relaxed? ]]> 2020-04-25 21:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530456588 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530456749 Let’s decorate a “tree” today! Collect some longer twigs and branches and place them in a container so that the ends are sticking up like the branches of a tree. Using clothespins, attach pieces of paper, string, and ribbon to your tree. Using the small muscles to open and close the clothespin is great for pre-writing practice. ]]> 2020-04-25 21:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530456749 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530457006 Let’s work on comparing sizes today! Collect a number of sticks from your yard or local park. Line them up. They are all different sizes, right? See if you can order them from smallest to largest! Show us how you did! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530457006 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530457276 Today, let’s learn about the movement of the sun using chalk and our shadow! Go outside at the start of each hour and stand in exactly the same spot (you can make an “X” on the spot where you want to stand). Ask a parent or sibling to trace your shadow each time you go outside. What happens to your shadow? What is the difference each time? Show us what you learned and tell us what you think is happening. Since you are standing in the same spot each time, the only thing that is moving is the sun! You are documenting the movement of the sun through the sky. A long time ago, people used things called Sun Dials to tell time. Ask your parents if you can look up Sun Dials on the internet to learn more about this fascinating way to tell time! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530457276 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530457481 Today, let’s use flowers as our paintbrushes! Gather some flowers of different shapes and sizes. Put them out along with paint and encourage your child to use the flowers to paint with. What beautiful art did they make? Show us! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530457481 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530457940 Today, let’s read “Be Still, Love Nature,” by Dalia Jean. This lovely book reminds us to be still and enjoy the beauty of nature each day. ]]> 2020-04-25 21:40:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530457940 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530458416 Let’s practice our fine motor skills with artificial flowers and a colander! To do this activity, set out some artificial flowers and turn a colander upside down. Encourage your child to put the stems of the flowers into the holes of the colander. This will take both fine motor control and problem solving skills! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:41:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530458416 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530458732 A fun way to practice early math skills is to gather items that can be counted. For instance, while on a walk, try to find 1 pinecone, 2 dandelions, 3 leaves, 4 twigs, and 5 rocks. Can you find all of those things? Once you have, line them up and count each one. This exercise will help with one to one correspondence as well as early number recognition! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530458732 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530459040 Who loves Dandelions? I do! They are bright, sunny little flowers that pop up in the spring time. They are also the first food for honey bees when they wake from their winter hibernation. Dandelions do so much for us, but today, we’re going to use them to make beautiful play dough! Collect lots of dandelions from your yard. An adult will need to bring one cup of water to a boil and then remove from heat. In a blender, mix the hot water and the dandelions until the dandelions are completely incorporated with the water. Add the mixture to a bowl and add in two tablespoons of oil (baby oil or vegetable oil), 1/3 cup salt, and 1-2 tablespoons of cream of tartar. Stir until salt is dissolved. Add in two cups of flour and mix until combined. If the dough is still sticky, you may need to add in more flour until it is malleable. Once the mixture cools, your child can take over the mixing! Knead the dough until it reaches the perfect consistency. You now have a beautiful naturally made and dyed ball of playdough! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530459040 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530459337 A fun way to celebrate spring with beautiful art is to make suncatchers with found objects. To do this activity, you can use either a Ziploc baggie filled with water and oil or the sticky side of contact paper. For the baggie, encourage your child to add found objects into the bag. Seal it and place it on a window where you child can reach and use the bag to push around the objects. For the contact paper, tape it to the window with the sticky side facing out. Encourage your child to stick the found objects to the contact paper. Once everything is on, cover with another piece of contact paper and tape to a window. Enjoy the beautiful art as the sun streams through it! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530459337 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530459856 Today, let’s read “Patterns in Nature,” by Jennifer Roy. Let’s learn about the different patterns that we can see and find in nature. ]]> 2020-04-25 21:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530459856 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530460242 A fun way to explore nature and work on fine motor skills is to explore a nature tray using scissors. If your child is ready to use child-safe scissors, you can provide a shallow bin with leaves, flowers, and petals for them to cut with the scissors. If you feel your child is not quite ready for scissors, you can encourage them to pull the items apart with their fingers and explore all of the parts. ]]> 2020-04-25 21:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530460242 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530460620 An important part of early math skills is learning how to classify objects as either bigger or smaller than something else. Today we will practice this skill using found objects in nature. On a walk, collect as many different nature items as you can. Find big ones and small ones and any in between. Once back home, encourage your child to sort the objects into big and small. In order to do this, you will have to pick an object that they can measure by. Perhaps you can use a midsize pinecone. Anything that is bigger than that pinecone goes into the “big” pile. Anything smaller than that, goes in the “small” pile. Show us how you do! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530460620 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530460904 How many frogs can fit on the log before it tips? Today, we’re going to do some experimenting! Fill up a bin with water, just enough that you can get things to float in it. Find a branch that will float in the water. Find small plastic frogs (you can cut these out of pieces of foam if you’d like, for instance, you can cut the shape out of a Styrofoam egg carton). Encourage your child to place the frogs on the log and see how many can fit on there before the log topples over! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530460904 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530461361 Today, let’s use found nature objects to create art! Gather leaves, flowers, rocks, and sticks. Encourage your child to use the objects to create different shapes and patterns. What did they create? Show us! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530461361 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530461548 Today let’s read “We’re Going on a Nature Hunt,” by Steve Metzger! Let’s see what some children find on their nature hunt! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530461548 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530461980 Today, let’s create a necklace using found leaves! Encourage your child to pick up different shapes, colors, and sizes of leaves. It will be best to find fairly new fallen leaves, instead of dried out ones. Tie a piece of string to a small twig and encourage your child to push a hole into the leaf with the twig and thread it onto the string. This fine motor activity also encourage problem solving skills! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:46:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530461980 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530462300 Using a bin of soil, you can create a seek and find that will entertain your child for hours! Fill a bin with soil and hide letters, numbers, or puzzle pieces in the soil. Encourage your child to use gardening tools to uncover the hidden pieces in the soil. ]]> 2020-04-25 21:47:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530462300 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530462613 A fun activity that you can do on a rainy day is exploring magnets! Fill up a mason jar with water and place metal paper clips into the water. Next, take a magnet and place it on the outside of the jar. What happens to the paper clips? Will they follow the magnet as it moves up and down the jar? Tell us what you find out!]]> 2020-04-25 21:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530462613 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530462917 Today, let’s make marbled art using oil and water. Oil and water resist each other, so they cannot mix. To set this activity up, add oil (vegetable works best, but mineral or baby oil will also work) to several cups. Put in water based food coloring (not the gel kind) and mix until the big drops turn into tiny droplets. Do a different color in each cup. Pour about an inch of water into a pie dish and then use a spoon or dropper to add the colored oil to the water. Be creative about where you add it. Lastly, take small pieces of white paper and lay them on top of the colored water. When you remove them, you will be left with marbled paper. The effect is caused by the water based food coloring sticking to the paper and the oil creating pockets, or bubbles, where the color cannot stick. Show us your creations! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530462917 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530463153 Today, let’s read “The Listening Walk,” by Paul Showers. It is important to listen as we walk around our neighborhoods sometimes. What can you hear if you go on a listening walk? ]]> 2020-04-25 21:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530463153 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530463514 Let’s feed the baby birds! Cut up small pieces of pipe cleaners or string. Encourage your child to pick up the pieces with a clothes pin and transfer them to a small bowl. You can explain that mother birds feed their young by picking up worms and then feeding them to their babies using their beaks. ]]> 2020-04-25 21:49:31 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530463514 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530463925 A fun math game that also helps develop fine motor control uses leaves and clothespins to practice counting! You can use either real leaves or artificial leaves. On each leaf, write a number between one and ten. Encourage your child to clip the correct number of clothespins to each leaf (try to make sure that the larger numbers have bigger leaves!). As you go along, encourage your child to try to count as they clip, working on that one to one correspondence that we have been focused on! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530463925 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530465473 Here is a long term project that you can do to learn more about how things grow. Most fruits and vegetables have seeds that you can harvest to grow new plants. Potatoes, however, are special. You can plant a potato and grow a whole new plant! To do this experiment, place one end of a potato in water, with the other end sticking out. Watch carefully what happens to the potato each day. What do the roots look like? What do the leaves look like? What can you learn from your experiment? ]]> 2020-04-25 21:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530465473 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530465783 While salt dough is an easy and fun way to create lasting art, placing what you make outside can be dangerous for wildlife. The salt in the dough can be harmful to different animals. This activity provides a recipe for salt free dough that you can use to make fun portraits that you can hang outside of your house for decoration! Collect interesting nature items that you find on a walk. Be sure to only use that which you find on the ground; never pick something from a tree or plant. Also, avoid berries as they can be poisonous. Take your finds home and use the recipe that can be found on this website to create a salt free dough. Use the dough to create nature portraits in the dough. Once it hardens, you will have lovely art that you hang outside! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530465783 jendesantis0921 https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530466072 Today let’s read “Two Little Birds,” by Mary Newell DePalma! We will learn all about how little birds grow big and strong. One day, they saw the moon and wanted to go there. Let’s see what happens when they try to fly there! ]]> 2020-04-25 21:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lilyclassroom01/3qja0q8jh76i/wish/530466072