LESSON PLAN
Room: 17 Teacher: Lauren Lewis Theme: Creepy Crawlers Values: Helpfulness & Perseverance Week of: May 8-12
Monday
-What is an insect? What are
Morning Meeting/ the parts of an insect?
Discussion -How can we read dice? How do
we add them together?
-100 Hungry Ants by: Elinor
J. Pinczes
Story/Songs -Parts of an Insect Song
-The Behive Chant
-To practice our understanding
of dice, addition, and 1:1
Math Center correspondence, students will
roll a pair of dice, add the total
together to determine how many
spots to cover on their lady bug
board. Whoever covers the
board first wins.
-Students will pull an uppercase
Language letter butterfly from the draw
pile and trace the corresponding
Center lowercase letter on their paper.
This activity will allow us to
practice our letter recognition,
and letter building, using a solid
pinch grip.
Creative Arts, -Students will engineer insects
by rolling playdough balls to
Science, create the insect’s three body
parts. Then they will use pipe
Discovery and cleaners, straws, and googly
eyes to complete the bug.
Imagination
-bug pattern blocks: using
Specialties shape tangrams to build
insects.
Special Events/Hallmarks:
Tuesday
-What makes a spider
different than an insect?
–Diary of a Spider by: Doreen
Cronin
-The Itsy Bitsy Spider/La itzi
bitzi araña
-Students will show their
understanding of insect
characteristics and sorting by
counting legs, eyes etc. to
categorize which bugs are
insects and which are not.
-To practice our uppercase
and lowercase letter pair
recognition, students will
draw a line from the
lowercase letter caterpillar
to its corresponding
uppercase letter caterpillar.
-As a large group, students
will learn and categorize, on
the board, insects from non-
insects (i.e.- spiders), to
display their knowledge of an
insects parts.
Wednesday
-Do all insects have to have
wings?
-phonics review using Zoophonics
animals
-Beetle McGrady Eats Bugs
by: Megan McDonald
-A Fly Went By by: Mike
McClintock
-To practice our 1:1
correspondence, students will
place the correct amount of
fingerprint dots on the
caterpillar’s body to match
the digit on its’ head.
-To practice our
phonics/letter recognition
students will sort bugs into
bowls based on the sound
that they start with.
-In the Dramatic Play center,
students will turn into entomologists,
as they explore insects, and create
bug fossils with playdough to inspect
different characteristics about the
bugs. They will also have to use their
imaginations and engage in peer
play/conversations during this center.
9:20-9:35: Spanish
Thursday
-What do different insects
eat?
-Rote counting in the double
digits
-Bugs, Bugs, Bugs by: Bob
Barner
-Hickety, Pickety, Bumble
Bee song
-After counting the dots
on the lady bug, students
will place the bug on the
leaf labeled with the
matching digit to practice
our 1:1 correspondence.
-Bugs, Bugs, Bugs reader’s
theatre: students will use
their auditory processing
skills when they hold up pieces
from the story and act that
bug out as they hear it
described in the literature.
-Students will explore art
materials through a process
art center as they create
their own bug/insect using
what is in front of them to
make a unique design.
9:00-9:30: Creative Movement
10:00-10:30: Sunrise
Intergenerational Visit
Friday
-Where are different insect’s
environments?
-How do we properly hold our
scissors, and turn the paper?
-The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by: Eric Carle
-The Very Hungry Caterpillar
rap/poem
-To practice our number
sequencing, students will cut
and paste the missing digits in
order on the insect themed
number line.
-Students will splat a letter
with a fly swatter based on
the sound that was called by
their teachers to practice our
phonics to letter
correspondence.
-After reading The Very Hungry
Caterpillar, students will
strengthen their cutting skills as
they recreate fruits, or bugs
from the story with paper to
extend learning from the
literature.
9:30-9:50: Library
10:00-10:30: Music
10:30-11:00: STEAM Lab