K3 LESSON PLAN
Room: 17 Teacher: Lauren Lewis Theme: Fairy Tales Values: Courage & Tolerance Week of: Apr. 9-13
Monday
-What is a fairytale?
Morning Meeting/
What are the
Discussion characteristics of one?
-Jack and the Magic
Beanstalk (song and story
Story/Songs -Little Red Riding Hood
-Students will place the
Math Center leaves on the beanstalk in
number order. We will be
using double digit numbers.
This will allow us to practice
recognizing double digits and
their sequence,
-Students will look at
Language both “beanstalk vines”
Center and draw lines between
the uppercase and
lowercase letter pairs.
Creative Arts, -Students will practice
cutting, as they cut brown
Science, strips of paper for “trees in
Discovery and the forest.” Then they will
draw in Little Red Riding and
Imagination the bad wolf.
Specialties
Special Events/Hallmarks:
Tuesday
-There is a beginning, middle
and end to every story
-How can we retell a story?
–Goldilocks and the Three
Bears
-Goldilocks and the Three
Dinosaurs
-To practice their 1:1
correspondence, students will
cut, and count amounts of
characters from fairytales read
this week. They will place the
corresponding number to the
proper character amounts to
show a match.
-Goldilocks Puppet Retell:
After listening to the story,
students will retell the story
with puppets for
repetition/comprehension,
and to practice public
speaking skills.
-Students will cut shapes
out of construction paper
and build “castles” on
paper with their cut
shapes.
Wednesday
-How can we “measure”
something? What does the
term “length” mean?
-Letter sound review
-Rapunzel
-Fairytale song
-Rapunzel’s Hair
Measurement Studio: How
long is Rapunzel’s hair?
Students will measure
different Rapunzel braids
using cubes to determine
their length.
-Students will sound out the
beginning sounds each fairy
tale character or item makes.
They will draw that letter
next to the item to practice
initial sounds.
-Students will place tangram
pattern blocks in matching
shapes to create fairytale
themed shape puzzles. (Magic
wand, beanstalk, glass
slipper, etc.)
9:20-9:35: Spanish
Thursday
-What does the term
“sequence” mean?
-Reviewing ordinal terms and
their relation to numbers.
-The Three Little Pigs
-The Real Tale of the Three
Little Pigs
-The Little Wolves and the Big
Bag Pig
Ordinal term
- The Three Little Pigs
story sequencing: After
reading The Three
Little Pigs, students will
place the events in the
order they occurred.
-As a large group, we will
compare components from
each literary version of The
Three Little Pigs read that
day. Students will share which
side of the story they believe:
the pig’s, or the wolf’s.
-Students will build “brick”
houses with LEGOS and
blocks so the wolf cannot
blow it down, allowing
children to explore
engineering.
9:00-9:30: Creative Movement
10:00-10:30: Sunrise
Intergenerational Visit
Friday
-How can we compare
results of a bar graph?
-The Princess and the Frog
SONGS: -Jack and the Magic
Beanstalk song
-Cinderella song
-The Three Little Bears
-After reading a version of The
Princess and the Frog, students
will take a vote on whether or not
they would be kiss a frog. Their
answers will be displayed using a
bar graph. We will compare
results using terms such as,
“greater than,” “less than,” or
“equal to.”
-Beginning Middle End of
stories: Each day we will
discuss the beginning, middle,
and end of every fairytale
that we read. It is important
for us to see the segments of
stories.
-Children will use straws to
“huff, and puff till they
blow the paint” away.
9:55-10:15: Library
10:00-10:30: Music
10:30-11:00: STEAM Lab