Preschool July Lessons

Camping Week
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 Kids R Learning
Preschool Lesson Plans
Review Letters J-Q, Numbers 1-6
Review Colors Yellow & Brown
Review Shapes Star, Rectangle & Heart
July Week 4 - Camping Week

Day 1

Post a note to ask the parents if they have a sleeping bag that they can bring in for their
child to use on Friday.

Circle Time: Let’s Go Camping!

Have the children sit in a circle. Ask the children if they have
ever been camping before. Explain to the children that
camping is sleeping outside in a tent or some people have a
camper or a camp.

Explain to the children that we will be talking about camping this week in a tent. Print
out and show the children the (things to pack) pictures. Take turns showing the pictures
to the children and seeing if any of the children know the names of the camping items.
Tell the children that these are some of the items that people may pack to go on a
camping trip.

Next play a game – Who Has The Tent Card

You will need: Camping Cards

Print out the camping cards onto heavy paper such as white cardstock paper, if you
need more cards you can also print out the forest animal cards, make sure you have
enough cards for each child to have a card, they can have duplicate cards if needed, but
make sure there is only one tent card.

Teacher will mix up the cards and pass them out, teacher will be “it” and she will try and
guess who is holding the tent card.

Teacher has three guesses to guess who has the tent card, if teacher guess correctly,
then she gets to go again, if she doesn’t find the tent card, then the child holding the
tent card, now gets to be “it”.

Teacher will collect all the camping cards and mix them up and pass them out again.

Repeat until the children lose interest.

Story Time: The Day The Animals Went Camping Story
Print out and read The Day The Animals Went Camping. You will need:
Plastic Sheet Protectors, Yarn and Cardstock Paper.

Print out the story onto heavy paper such as white cardstock paper and place the pages
into plastic sheet protectors and then tie them together securely to make a book, or
place the story into a 3 ring folder to make a book, or place the story into a presentation
book. Read the rhyme to the children.

Song/Rhyme: A Camping We Will Go

Tune to: “The farmer in the dell”

A camping we will go, a camping we will go.

Hi, ho, the woods you know. A camping we will go.

Teacher will bring the tent, teacher will bring the tent,
Hi, ho, the woods you know, Teacher will bring the tent.

Who will bring the flashlight? Who will bring the flashlight?
Hi, ho, the woods you know, who will bring the flashlight?
(All the children with the flashlight card will bring it up and drop it into the backpack)

(Child’s name) will bring the flashlight, (child’s name) will bring the flashlight,
Hi, ho, the woods you know, (child’s name) will bring the flashlight.

Repeat with the rest of the camping cards; sleeping bag, lantern, marshmallow, canteen,
tent, etc.

You will need the camping cards from circle time; mix them up and give each child one
or two cards; you may need to print out more cards.

As you sing about an item such as the flashlight have the child with the flashlight card
drop the flashlight card into a back pack or a paper bag, have them pretend they are
packing up the items into a back pack or a paper bag, or a box to take camping.

Art Project: Collage Tent

Print out the tent shape and use as a pattern in cutting out more for each
of the children. Have the children cover the tent with glue and give them
each some small pieces of green paper, green tissue paper, small pieces of
green felt, green buttons, and pieces of green yarn.
Pre Reading: Food Letter Match Up
You will need 8 paper plates and 8 small blank index cards or cut out some
squares of paper from a piece of white cardstock paper and use those
instead.

Write the letter J onto the first index card, then write the letter K onto the next index
card continue with the letters L – Q onto the rest of the index cards.

Put the 8 paper plates into a row; place the letter J in front of the first plate, the letter K
in front of the 2nd plate and so on…

Print out the foods with the letters J – Q on them, cut them apart. Place the foods into a
small cloth bag or a pillowcase. Have the children take turns picking one food item from
the bag; have them place the food onto the paper plate with the same letter.

You can tell the children we are getting the food ready for the people at the cook out.
We need to put Jason’s food onto the paper plate with the J next ot it, and Kelly’s food
onto the paper plate with the K next to it, etc.

Math: I’m Really Hungry?

You will need: Cardstock paper, toy grill or cooling rack, toy spatula or
plastic spatula, toy plate or plastic plate, number cube die, food cube die,
toy hot dogs, toy hamburgers and toy chicken legs or use the grilling cards
that show hot dogs, hamburgers and chicken.

Please note: Number cube die will be used again on day 2 – special activity time.

Print out the grilling cards or use toy hot dogs, cheeseburgers and
chicken legs. See directions below for the 3 cube dies.

You will need a toy grill or use a cooling rack, a cooling rack that you
would use to cool a cake on as a pretend grill.

Teacher will say to one of the children; I’m really hungry can you cook me and then
have the child shake both dice, if it shows the number 3 and the hot dogs, teacher will
say I would like and then she will point to the pictures on the cube die see if the child
can say the number and the name of the food, have him place the 3 hot dogs onto the
frying pan and place it onto the grill (cooling rack) to pretend to cook the hot dogs, then
have him place the foods onto a plastic plate and pass it to the teacher. Teacher will
point to the hot dogs on the plate and have all the children count the hot dogs with her.
Then the next child will go, continue until everyone has a turn.
Cube Die Instructions: Print out the cube (die – see picture) print out and fold all
the lines to make a cube and as you fold it, carefully tape the flaps to the inside
of the cube, When you get all but one of the sides taped, place some scrap pieces
of newspaper into the cube to help to make it sturdy and then you will need to
tape the last piece shut, and then write onto the cube the numbers you want to
use, you may want to write the numbers 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, and 3 for the children to review
these numbers, it is a lot easier for children to match up numbers 1 – 12 than to count
out 12 items so its usually best to stick to small numbers when counting out items.

2nd Number Cube Die: If you have a lot of older preschoolers in your group they may
find counting out three items pretty easy to do, make a separate die and write the
numbers 1 – 6 or 3 – 8 on the die for them to use.

You want the children to be able to count out the items without becoming frustrated, if
they have to keep stopping and starting over to count out the items then the numbers
are too high, make sure they see math as a fun activity not a frustrating one, counting
will become easier the more often they do it, a lot or preschoolers can learn numbers by
sight up to 100 but counting out items is a lot more challenging so keep the numbers
low when counting out items.

Food Cube Die: Print out the grilling cube die too and follow the directions for
making the cube die (above).

Clear Packing Tape - Now you will need to cover the die completely with clear
packing tape, go all the way around the cube one way and then go around it
again the other way to make it sturdy. (The packing tape will make it sturdy).

Science/Discovery: Sensory Hike

You will need: Long strips of bubble wrap, fake fur, contact paper, velvet,
and other types of material, duck tape or packaging tape

Directions: Make a pretend hiking trail (sensory walk) for the children to
walk on. Lay strips of fake fur, bubble wrap, contact paper (sticky side up)
velour, or any other type of material that the children can walk across, lay
it down in a long line or long circle, once you have it the way you want it
then secure it down with duck tape or packaging tape to secure the strips
to the floor, otherwise the children may slip and fall on the materials.

Please note: If laying the strips of tape on a rug, test the tape first, to make
sure it’s not going to leave any tape residue on the rug that may not come
up easily.
You can make the hiking trail any size you would like. The more children you have the
longer you may want to make the sensory walk so more children can walk on it at the
same time.

To make it more fun you may want to add some boxes for the children to crawl through
and at the end of the trail have a pretend stream they need to jump over, place a piece
of blue cardstock paper on the floor for them to jump over, make sure you tape it down
so they don’t slip on it. You could have several blue pieces of paper spaced apart for the
children to jump over the streams or puddles.

Physical Activity/ Gross Motor: Find The Food

You will need toy play foods or empty food boxes such as cereal boxes, cookie or cracker
boxes, stove top stuffing boxes, empty clean washed out milk cartons (cardboard type),
egg cartons (cardboard type) or butter boxes or any other type of food boxes that you
have.

Hide the toy play foods or empty food boxes around the play area and have the children
find them. As the children find the food items have them place these items into a back
pack or a paper grocery bag (don’t use plastic bags).

Special Activity: Camping

You will need: Large sturdy cardboard boxes, flashlights (child safe ones), baby blankets
and small pillows such as traveler sized ones or baby pillows, toy picnic baskets, toy
foods, child sized back packs, toy canteens or empty water bottles (covers hot glue on),
stuffed animals.

Place several cardboard boxes around the room for children to use as pretend tents or
you can place them around outside on the playground. Have the children set up a
pretend camp site and provide the children with child friendly flashlights and baby
blankets (pretend sleeping bags).

Play some fun music and dim the lights. Pretend your camping. Set out some toy grills
or little toy ovens and toy picnic baskets and play food and little child backpacks to put
toy canteens or water bottles and play food in.

Place a variety of stuffed animals around the room such as; birds, squirrels,
raccoons, bears, snakes, deer, etc. different types of animals you may actually see while
out camping in the woods.

Day 2
Circle Time: Build A S’more
You will need, brown construction paper, tan construction paper, small paper
plates and a cotton ball for the marshmallow.

S’more cube die: See day 1 math time for directions on making the cube die.

No printout – Cut out some squares of tan and brown paper, you will need 2 tan
squares and one brown square per child. You will need one cotton ball (marshmallow
per child).

Teacher will pass out each child a small paper plate to put the pieces they collect onto
their paper plate.

Have the children take turns rolling the cube die, if they roll a graham cracker then
teacher will give them a tan piece of paper, they still need to roll another graham
cracker as they will need 2 graham crackers (tan pieces of paper) one piece of chocolate
and one marshmallow. The first child to collect all four pieces is the winner.

Printout - Or you can print out the s’more pieces and cut them apart and
give the children these pieces instead of the tan paper, brown paper and
the cotton ball.

Next, Make real s’mores for the children.

You will need:

A box of graham crackers
Chocolate bars
Bag of marshmallows

S’more Recipe:

Tip: Only use half a marshmallow and one tiny square of chocolate. We used one whole
marshmallow and two squares of chocolate and as you can see from the pictures we
had a big squishy mess. We did them again with only half a marshmallow and only one
tiny square of chocolate and not much squeezed out this time, much easier for little
hands to handle, hardly any mess. These are a bit messy but they are also yummy!

For easy clean up put down a piece of tin foil. Place graham crackers on baking sheet.
Place one very small square of chocolate on each cracker. Place half a marshmallow on
each piece of chocolate.

Put in a 350° oven for 4 to 6 minutes, just long enough to melt of soften marshmallow
and soften the chocolate. Remove from oven and put another graham cracker on top of
marshmallow and lightly push down to make a sandwich, let it cool, let it set for about
10 minutes to make sure they are cool before serving to the children.

Story Time: OLIVIA Goes Camping

Read the story “OLIVIA Goes Camping” by Jared Osterhold to the children, if you don’t
own this book you may be able purchase it from amazon.com or borrow it from a local
library.

Song/Rhyme: Five Little Campers

Poem

Five little campers hiking in the sun,

The first one said, "Wow, this is so much fun."
The second one said, "Let's set up camp here."
The third one said, "I hope I see a bear."
The fourth one said, "A bear I would fear."
The fifth one said, "I'd run and run and run."
ooooooooo went the wind and grrrr went the bear.
And all of the kids yelled, ahhhh, let's get out of here!

Art Project: Binoculars

You will need: 2 toilet paper rolls per child, sewing elastic, Velcro,
green paint or green markers.

Teacher will have each paint two toilet paper rolls green, or they can
color them with green washable markers.

Each child will need two toilet paper rolls. Have them paint the rolls or
color them with markers. After they dry have the children glue the
two rolls together side by side. Then cut a strip of sewing elastic and
attach a piece of Velcro to each end and of the sewing elastic and onto
each side of the binoculars. This way if a child starts to become
tangled up the Velcro will let go. Because of strangulation do not cut the strips very
long. Always keep a close eye on children when they have any type of string or yarn and
remind all the children they are not to wrap the string around anyone’s neck. Later in
the day after their binoculars have dried take the children outside for a hike and to use
their binoculars while pretending to look for forest animals that they may see while
camping. Place the cards from circle time outside in the play area and let the children
look for the bat, owl and raccoon and as they are found, hide them again.
Pre Reading: Craft Stick Letters
You will need 18 large craft sticks and a permanent marker.

On one of the craft sticks write the letter A onto the top of the craft stick, repeat with
the rest of the craft sticks with the letters B through Q.

Place the craft sticks into a small cloth bag and have the children take turns picking one
of the craft sticks from the bag and holding it up and saying which letter they have. If
they don’t know the name of the letter on the craft stick teacher can ask the other
children if they know the name of the letter on the craft stick.

Have the child that picked the craft stick from the bag, have him now match up the craft
stick to the rectangles on the printout; such as he has the craft stick with the letter A he
will place the craft stick into the rectangle that is directly above the letter A on the
printable, repeat with the rest of the letters.

Math: What Did I See?

You will need: Nocturnal Animals Pictures, cube die (see day four)

I went camping today and what did I see

I saw ___ forest animals looking at me. (Shake the cube die)

Explain to the children that a lot of forest animals come out at night time and they will
place the forest animals onto black felt to represent night time.

To begin have one child shake the cube die and if they shake a 3 they will pick any three
forest animals and place them onto the black felt (night time)

Nocturnal Animal Cards – print out the nocturnal forest animal cards and place self
adhesive Velcro (rough feeling side) onto the backs of the cards so they will
stick to the black felt.

Optional: Tent 1 – 12 Worksheet

Print out the tent worksheets onto heavy paper such as white cardstock
paper. Cut off the bottom row of numbers and you may want to place a
piece of Velcro onto the backs of each of the numbers and place a piece of
Velcro onto the front of the worksheet where the numbers will go to help keep the
numbers in place.

Next, lay the four numbers onto the floor. Show the children the tent worksheet.
Teacher will point to the first tent and say “one tent” and then point to the next tent
and say “two” and then point to the blank opening and say which number should go
here? Have one of the children pick the number “3” from the floor and place it onto the
worksheet into the correct opening, continue until you have used the other three cards.

Now, remove the four tents from the worksheet and place them face down onto the
floor and have the children take turns picking one of the cards from the floor. See if they
can tell you what number they have. Then have them start with number “1” on the
game board and count up to the number that they have in their hand; such as they pull
out the number 5. They will start counting the numbers on the work sheet 1, 2, 3, 4 and
then place the number five where it goes and say 5. Then the next child takes a turn.
After the four numbers have been used, remove them from the worksheet and repeat
until everyone has had a turn.

Now, print out the worksheets onto copy paper, print out one worksheet for each child
and have the children cut the numbers off the bottom row of their worksheet. Have
them place the numbers onto their worksheets. See if they placed them into the correct
places. Help them as needed. Then give the children some glue to glue the numbers on.

Science/Discovery: Nocturnal Animals

Explain to the children that some forest animals are awake at
night time and they sleep during the daytime, these animals
are called nocturnal animals.

Print out the nocturnal animals poster and hold it up and

show it to the children have the children take turns pointing to one of the animals on
the poster and telling you the name of the animal such as bear, owl, bat, etc.

Ask the children if they have ever seen a raccoon, bat or deer or any other nocturnal
animals outside at night.

Print out the nocturnal animals match up game boards. There are 7 game
boards. Print out the nocturnal animals match up cards, there are 4
pages of these cards.

Show the children the game boards and explain that depending on
where you live you may or may not see the some of the animals on these cards.
Place the nocturnal animal game boards side by side onto a low table or onto the floor,
back against the wall.

Place the nocturnal animals match up cards into a cloth bag. Have the children sit in a
circle.

Have the children take turns pulling out one card from the bag. See if they can tell you
which animal is shown on the card; such as a turtle, a raccoon, a fox, etc. Then have
them match the card to the game board. Have them place the game card under the
matching picture in the empty box. Help as needed.

If you have more than 14 children in your group, as soon as the game boards fill up,
remove the pieces and put them back into the bag and continue until everyone has had
a turn.

Optional: Place a piece of Velcro onto the backs of the game cards and another piece
onto the front of the game board so the pieces will stick to the Velcro and not move
after they are put onto the game board.

Just make sure you place the Velcro onto the same spot, such as into the middle of the
game card and into the middle of the game board, so the Velcro hits each other as the
card is laid down and then they will stick together and not move around.

Physical Activity/ Gross Motor: Find The Animals

You will need the (nocturnal) night time animal cards from science time
and place a piece of Velcro (rough feeling side) onto the backs of the
cards so they will stick to the felt.

You will need a large piece of black felt and attach it to a wall or a sturdy box.

Hide the (nocturnal) night time animal cards around the room and as the children find
the night time animal cards have them place these onto the black felt (pretend night
time sky).

Or you can use stuffed animals… if you have any nocturnal toy animals that you can hide
around the play area for the children to find and have them place these into a basket as
they find them.

Special Activity: Colorful Rectangle

You will need: White cardstock paper, circle stickers and

number cube die (see day 1 math time).
You will need a piece of white cardstock paper, fold it lengthwise, open it back up and
now cut down the fold line. You now have two rectangles.

Give each child 10 circle stickers and have them take turns shaking the number cube die
(see math time day 1) and whatever number they roll is the amount of circle stickers
that they will put on one of the rectangles, they can put the stickers on top of each
other or the backs of the rectangles too if they start running out of room.

Whoever uses up all their stickers first, wins.

Day 3

Circle Time: Heart Color Match Up

There are 4 game boards with different colored hearts and 2 pages of
matching colored hearts match up cards.

Print out the heart color match up game boards onto white cardstock
paper. There are 4 of these game boards, with 2 different colored hearts
on each game board. The hearts can also be printed out in black and
white and colored after.

Print out the matching game cards. There are 2 pages of these with 4
hearts on one page for a total of 8 hearts. Print these onto white
cardstock paper. Cut out the matching heart cards, cut around the boxes
the hearts are inside. Can also be printed out in black and white and
colored after.

Place the heart game boards side by side, so the children can see all of the
colors at a glance. Set these onto a low table or onto the floor, back
against the wall.

Place all the heart matching color cards into a cloth bag. Have the children
sit in a circle. Have the children take turns pulling out one heart from the
bag. Teacher will ask the child if they know what color the heart is. Then have them
match the heart, by its color to the correct heart on the game board. Have them place
the heart under the matching heart in the empty box. Help as needed.

Please Note: You may want to attach Velcro onto the backs of each picture and onto the
front of each empty box on the game board. Make sure the Velcro is in the same spot
on each piece so they will stick together.
Story Time: 1, 2, 3 Come Camping With Me Rhyme
Print out and read the rhyme 1,2,3 Come Camping With Me. You will
need: Plastic Sheet Protectors, Yarn and Cardstock Paper.

Print out the story onto heavy paper such as white cardstock paper and
place the pages into plastic sheet protectors and then tie them together securely to
make a book, or place the story into a 3 ring folder to make a book, or place the story
into a presentation book. Read the rhyme to the children.

Song/Rhyme: Star Light, Star Bright

Poem

Star light, star bright,

First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.

Art Project: Camp Fire

To have the children make a campfire you will need to take a
small plate and draw a large circle onto each paper. Have the
children glue raisons around the outside edge as the rocks or
have them use small pebbles. Give each of the children a toilet
paper roll to paint brown to be the log. Cut out a red and yellow flame. Have the
children glue the red and yellow flame together and then glue it onto the side of the
toilet paper roll (log). Have them place this inside the circle of pebbles or raisons.

Pre Reading: Craft Stick Letters A - Q

You will need: 17 large craft sticks, 3 Egg Cartons and 17 circle
stickers.

You will need three egg cartons, turn the egg cartons upside down, poke a hole or a slit
into the center of each egg cup, place a circle sticker onto the front of each of the egg
cups (see picture) and write the letter A onto the first circle sticker of the first egg cup of
the first egg carton, write the letter B onto the next circle sticker and continue writing
one letter onto each of the circle stickers, write the letters in alphabetical order A
through Q.
Now you will need 17 large craft sticks and 17 circle stickers, write one letter onto each
circle sticker (A-Q) and place the circle stickers onto the top edge craft sticks. There will
be one circle sticker with one letter on each craft stick.

Place all the craft sticks onto the floor, letters facing down, and have the children take
turns picking up one craft stick and telling you what letter is on the craft stick and then
placing the craft stick into the egg carton with the same letter on it.

Math: How Many Stars?

You will need: Black felt, star print out, yellow cardstock paper and self adhesive Velcro,
cube die (see day two)

Teacher will recite the poem to the children, one child at a time.

Star light, star bright, how many stars did I see camping tonight?

Next, teacher will pass one of the children the cube die and have them shake the cube
die, if they shake a 2, they will count out two stars and put them onto the black felt
(night time)

Print out the stars onto heavy paper such as yellow cardstock paper, cut out the stars
and place a piece of self adhesive Velcro onto the backs of the stars.

Hang up a large piece of black felt (night time sky) onto the wall or place onto a large
sturdy box.

Optional: Stars 1 – 12 Worksheet

Print out the star worksheets onto heavy paper such as white cardstock paper.
Cut off the bottom row of numbers and you may want to place a piece of
Velcro onto the backs of each of the numbers and place a piece of Velcro onto
the front of the worksheet where the numbers will go to help keep the
numbers in place.

Next, lay the four numbers onto the floor. Show the children the star
worksheet. Teacher will point to the first star and say “one star” and then point to the
next star and say “two” and then point to the blank opening and say which number
should go here? Have one of the children pick the number “3” from the floor and place
it onto the worksheet into the correct opening, continue until you have used the other
three cards.

Now, remove the four stars from the worksheet and place them face down onto the
floor and have the children take turns picking one of the cards from the floor. See if they
can tell you what number they have. Then have them start with number “1” on the
game board and count up to the number that they have in their hand; such as they pull
out the number 5. They will start counting the numbers on the work sheet 1, 2, 3, 4 and
then place the number five where it goes and say 5. Then the next child takes a turn.
After the four numbers have been used, remove them from the worksheet and repeat
until everyone has had a turn.

Now, print out the worksheets onto copy paper, print out one worksheet for each child
and have the children cut the numbers off the bottom row of their worksheet. Have
them place the numbers onto their worksheets. See if they placed them into the correct
places. Help them as needed. Then give the children some glue to glue the numbers on.

Science/Discovery: Camp Fire

You will need: Toilet paper rolls, toy pots and pans, play food

Ask the children if they know how you cook things when you are camping. Tell the
children that a camp fire is made from sticks and twigs. Explain to the children that the
fire is made inside the rocks to help keep the fire contained. This is also a good time to
talk about fire safety and how we never touch matches and only adults start a fire.

Explain to them this is not a “real fire” we are just pretending, that we don’t make real
fires only pretend ones, only adults make real fires.

Pretend Campfire – See special activity time; use the campfire to cook marshmallows
over.

Have the children place toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls into a pile for pretend
wood and sticks.

First have them pretend to collect the fire wood by having them go around the
classroom and look for the firewood (toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls covered in
clear contact paper to make them sturdy). Then have them place the pretend fire wood
into a sturdy basket for the pretend fire.

Provide the children some toy pots and pans and toy foods that are all preschool safe,
and let them pretend to cook on the pretend camp fire.

Provide them with little pillows to sit on and place them around the camp fire for little
seats.
Physical Activity/ Gross Motor: Brown Rectangle Rhyme

Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, shake it up high

Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, shake it at the sky

Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, shake it down low.

Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, tap it on your toe.

Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, shake it up high

Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, shake it at the sky

Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, turn around.

Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, drop it to the ground
Brown rectangle, brown rectangle, doesn’t make a sound (shh)

Repeat changing brown rectangle to yellow rectangle.

You will need yellow and brown construction paper or cardstock paper. Fold the paper 2
times lengthwise and then fold it in half in the opposite direction. Cut out the rectangles
you just made, repeat until you have one rectangle for each child of each color (yellow
and brown). Have them use the rectangles with the rhyme above.

Special Activity: Cooking Marshmallows

After the children’s camp fires have dried have them place these onto the floor and
pretend to cook (real) marshmallows. Give each of the children a Popsicle stick and a
marshmallow to stick onto their stick. Have them pretend to cook their marshmallow
over their camp fire and then eat their marshmallows.

Optional: Star Tic – Tac – Toe

You will need a large square of felt, and some masking tape, with the masking tape you
will need to make the outline for the tic-tac-toe game, see the diagram above.

Print out the heart and circle tic tac toe cards onto heavy paper cut apart and then place
some strips of Velcro onto the backs of the cards so they will stick to the tic-tac-toe felt
board that you made. Have the children take turns playing the game. Begin with two
children playing and give one child the three blue stars and the other child the three
yellow circles.

Have the children take turns placing their cards into the empty spaces on the tic tac toe
felt board that you made, the first child to get three stars or three circles in a row wins.

Have another child play the winner, repeat until everyone gets a turn.

Day 4

Circle Time: The Owl Says Who

You will need: Forest animal cards

You will need the nocturnal forest animal cards from day 2 science time.

Make sure one of the children gets the owl card, do not have the children show each
other which card they have. The teacher will be “it” first and she will sit in the middle
and the children will sit around her.

Teacher and children will chant:

Owl in the tree

Owl in the tree
Can you say who (child in the box will say who)
Just for me?

Then teacher will point to one of the children and they will say “who” if they have the
owl card, or they will say no I’m not the owl I’m the fox, etc., teacher has three chances
to find the owl.

The child with the owl card gets to go next, he/she will now sit in the middle of the circle
and teacher will collect the cards, mix them up, and pass them out again, make sure one
child receives the owl card.

Repeat until the children tire of this activity.

Story Time: Maisy Goes Camping

Read the story “Maisy Goes Camping” by by Lucy Cousins to the children, if you don’t
own this book you may be able purchase it from amazon.com or borrow it from a local
library.
Song/Rhyme: Owl, Owl
Poem

Owl, Owl, turn around,

Owl, Owl, touch the ground.
Owl, Owl, reach up high,
Owl, Owl, close your eyes.
Owl, Owl, touch your nose,
Owl, Owl, touch your toes.
Owl, Owl, clap one, two,
Owl, Owl, says who, who!

Have the children pretend they are owls and act out the parts.

Art Project: Owl

Print out the owl picture. Have the children color the owl and then glue
on some brown feathers.

You should be able to find feathers at Wal-Mart in the craft department or any craft
store.

Pre Reading: My ABC Book – Letters P & Q

Print out the pages of the ABC book onto copy paper, you will need the
book pages P & Q for each child, have them color the pages and trace the
letters. These pictures can be found in the week 1 printable pages.

After all the pages for this month have been traced and colored put the pages together
to make each child an ABC book showing this month’s letters. This will be a fun book for
them to take home to be able to use with their parents to help them review the letters
they are learning.

Teacher will need to 3 hole punch down the left hand side of the pages and tie each
hole separately with a piece of yarn, keep some slack with the yarn so the pages can
easily turn.
Math: How Many Feathers Did You Find?
You will need: white cardstock paper, feathers, you will need the cube die from day 1
math time.

Teacher will recite the poem to the children, one child at a time.

We went for a walk and what did we see?

We saw bird feathers under a big, big, tree.
How many did (child’s name) see? (Shake the die)
(Child’s name) saw ___ feathers come count them with me! (If child rolls a 2 she will
pick out two feathers and lay them in a row and then teacher and all the children will
count the feathers as a group, as teacher points to the feathers and says out loud one
feather, two feathers, and the children will say one feather, two feathers with the
teacher.

Science/Discovery: Safe or Not Safe To Touch Cards

Teach the children that they shouldn’t touch things that will start a fire such as lighters
and matches. Teach the children that to be safe they shouldn’t touch things that are hot
such as a gas grill, fire place, stove, candles or a camp fire. Explain to them that they
shouldn’t touch things that are. Ask the children if they can think of anything that is hot
that they do not touch; such as curling irons, light bulbs, hot iron, etc.

Print out the safe and not safe cards and cut them apart. Show them the pictures to the
children and explain why these items are safe or they are not safe to touch.

Then place all the pictures into a small cloth bag or pillowcase.

You will need 2 tissue boxes, cardstock paper, index card and red marker.

Teacher will need to make a round circle, using a large jar cover, trace around it and cut
it out and draw a happy face onto the circle. Then you need an index card or a square of
cardstock paper and make a large red X on it with a red marker. You will need to tape
each of these pictures onto two tissue boxes, make sure there is no plastic on the tissue
boxes.
Print out the safe and the not safe - don’t touch and cut the cards apart.

Place all the cards into a small cloth bag or pillowcase and have the children take turns
picking a card, have them tell you what is on the card and if they think the picture on
the card is something that could be “hot” and they shouldn’t touch it or something that
is safe for them to touch, if they say something is ok to touch, and it’s not, explain to
them why it is not an item that they should touch.

Physical Activity/ Gross Motor: Musical Hearts

Play this game like musical chairs. You will need five colors of construction paper
such as red, blue, green, black, brown, yellow, orange, white or pink and cut out a large
heart from the red, blue, green, black, brown, yellow, orange, white or pink paper and
tape one heart to each chair, you will need one chair per child.

If you have more than five children in your group you will need to use a few more colors
or you can use the same color more than once on some of the other chairs.

You will need one chair per child, place one colored heart onto each chair. You will need
matching hair scrunches that are the same colors as the hearts that you have.

Make sure you get the large cloth hair scrunches for each child;
just make sure the hearts on the chairs match up to the same color
of the hair scrunches that the children will be wearing as bracelets.

Give each of the children one large cloth hair scrunches to wear as
a bracelet and play some music and when the music stops the children need to find a
chair to sit on that matches their bracelet.

Then have the children trade bracelets and dance again to the music. Repeat.

Special Activity: Match The Feathers

You will need an egg carton. Turn it upside down. Paint the egg cups or
color them with markers to match the colors of the feathers you have.
You will need to make a small hole into the center of each egg cup for
the feather. Place the feathers into a cloth bag such as a pillow case
and have the children sit in a circle. Have them pull out a feather and ask the child if
they know what color the feather is, if they do not know the color see if any of the other
children know the color of the feather. If no one knows tell the color of the feather.
Have the child that pulled the feather from the bag stick it into the matching egg cup
holder. Help the children as needed.

Day 5

Circle Time: Let’s Go Swimming

Set out a blue blanket to pretend to swim around on the blanket or set out a child sized
kiddy pool with about an inch of water for the children to sit in and to pretend they are
swimming in the water, supervise the children at all times around the water.

Or set out another blue blanket or sheet to make a pretend stream of water for the
children to cross. Set up some circles or squares of black and brown paper for pretend
rocks, you will need to laminate the papers or cover them clear contact paper to make
them durable for the children to be able to hop onto them.

Or you can set out brown and black washcloths for pretend rocks. Have the children hop
from rock to rock to get across the stream. Set up the pretend rocks across the blue
sheet (stream of water).

Set up box for pretend boats and have the children sit in the boat and give them oars
(paper towel rolls) to pretend to row.

Bring out toy fishing rods and set up a small child sized pool with about an inch of water
and put in some toy fish for the children to pretend to go fishing.

Story Time: Dora's Camping Trip

Read the story “Dora's Camping Trip” by Nickelodeon to the children, if you don’t own
this book you may be able purchase it from amazon.com or borrow it from a local
library.

Song/Rhyme: Raccoon Poem

Poem

Raccoon, raccoon (make a mask around your eyes with your fingers)
Happy as can be (big smile)
Eating apples from a tree (pretend to eat apples)
I can see you.(point to picture of raccoon)
Can you see me, too?.(Point to self)
When it's time for me to go to bed (lay head on hands)
Do you go hunting instead(hands shade eyes as if squinting in the dark)
When its almost daylight.(point to the sky)
Do you go nighty, nighty (lay head on hands?)
Sleeping in that hollow tree, while the sun is shining down on me? (Pretend to sleep)

Art Project: Blueberries

You will need: green yarn and blue stickers

Teacher will need to cut some short strips of green yarn (vines) and give the children
some strips of green yarn and have the children glue the green yarn randomly onto a
paper plate this will be the blueberry vines and set aside to dry. After the vines dry have
the children stick on some blue circle stickers (blueberries) onto the green vines.

Pre Reading: Cup Letter Match Up

You will need 17 plastic cups, permanent marker, circles with the letters A – Q print out.
Print out the letters inside the circles, there are 3 in a row, ABC, DEF, GHI, etc., cut each
strip of letters and lay them side by side, so you will have the letters A – Q in a low row.

Turn the cups upside down, write the letter A with a permanent marker onto one of the
cups, repeat with the letters B – Q on the rest of the cups.

Place all the cups into a cloth bag or pillowcase, have the children take turns picking one
cup from the bag, have them hold up the cup and tell you what letter is on the cup, if
they don’t know the name of the letter on the cup, see if one of the other children
knows the name of the letter on the cup, if not…teacher will tell the children the name
of the letter on the cup.

Have the child that picked the cup from the cloth bag place it onto the matching letter,
Have them look at the row of letters, the letters that is inside the circles, and see if they
can find the matching letter, then place the cup onto the matching letter, help as
needed.

Math: Find Ricky Raccoon Some Berries

You will need: Raccoon Print out, berry file, large sturdy box,
magnetic wand, cube die (see day four) scissors (teacher only)
Activity: Have the children sit in a circle and take turns shaking the cube die to see
how many berries they are going to find for the raccoon. Have the children catch the
berries with a magnetic wand and then drop the berries into the box to pretend to
drop them near the raccoon so he can find them.

The next child will shake the cube die to see how many berries he is going to find for
Ricky the raccoon, drop these into the top of the box, as you begin to run out of
berries, teacher can reach inside the box and pull out the berries, continue until
everyone has had a turn.

Box Directions: You will need a large sturdy box. Cut a small hole into the top of the box
and a large hole into the bottom of the box. Print out the large raccoon picture and
place the picture onto the front of the box.

Jar Cover Directions: You will need some large metal jar covers (covers from peanut
butters jars, mayo jars, pickle jars, etc.) Make sure the jar covers are metal so they can
be picked up by the bingo wand, and be sure to check that there are no sharp edges.

Print out the berry pictures, cut out and tape or glue the pictures into the jar covers,
depending on the size of the covers you may need to clip the pictures a bit to make
them fit inside the jar covers.

Science/Discovery: Nature Walk

First have the children make some trail mix, see below.

Next, take the children outside for a fun nature walk and let them collect some pine
cones, acorns, pine needles, moss, etc. Have each child bring a paper bag with their
name on it to collect some nature items. Have them make a nature collage with the
items they collect when they get back to the classroom.

If you can’t take the children for a nature walk in the woods, then walk them around the
playground and have them pretend they are on a nature walk, see if they can find some
twigs, weeds, leaves, etc.
After, Make A Nature Plate

When they get back with their nature items have them make a paper plate collage. Have
them glue these items onto a paper plate.

First, Make Trail Mix

Tell the children that they are going for a nature hike today and they can take their
binoculars that they made at art time.
Just before you leave for the hike, have the children make their own snack to take on
their hike today.

Set out some different types of trail mix ingredients into separate bowls in a row on a
low table, try to provide a variety of different trail mix foods that the children may like
to eat.

Provide each of the children with a small reseal able sandwich bag. Have them take a
small handful of each of the trail mix ingredients that they like and place these into their
baggies. Give each of the children a spoon and let them carefully stir the ingredients.

Take the children for a short hike around the playground for a fun hike. Have them go
up the slide and pretend it’s a mountain set out some blue towels for the children to
jump over the streams and hide some toy forest animals (stuffed animals or plastic
forest animal toys). Hide them around the playground, in the bushes, on the swings, on
the deck, by the flowers, etc. and have the children look through their binoculars and try
to find the stuffed animals. Then have the children sit down to enjoy their trail mix snack
outside today!

Here are some ingredients to put into your trail mix:

Use only the ones you like in your trail mix.

• raisins
• peanuts (make sure there are no allergies)
• mini pretzels
• cereal
• banana chips
• granola or oatmeal
• chocolate chips or carob chips

Physical Activity/ Gross Motor: Find The Berries

Tell the children how some of the forest animals eat berries they find in the woods in
the summertime. Have the children pretend to be forest animals looking for berries.

Give each of the children a small paper lunch bag to collect the blue and red large sized
pom-poms which will be pretend blueberries and raspberries. Help each child count
how many berries (pom-poms) they found.

Special Activity: Who Has The Blueberry

You will need the forest animal cards and a small blue circle (pretend blueberry)
Lay all the forest animal cards in a row, have the children turn around and teacher will
place the blueberry under one of the animal pictures.

Have the children turn back around and sit in a row facing the forest animal cards. Have
the children take turns guessing which animal has the blueberry the first child to find
the blueberry gets to hide it next under one of the forest animal cards.

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