MATH. Daily Lesson Plans. Pre-K. Attributes. Macmillan /McGraw-Hill. Extend the Unit

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1 Daily Lesson Plans Extend the Unit Pre-K Week 1: Week 2: Week : Math Songs for each theme available on CD. Macmillan /McGraw-Hill 1

2 1 s 1-2 Objective Identify and name colors Materials classroom objects of different colors; Content Area Flip Chart, p. ; Mini-Motor Activity Cards 1a, 1b; transportation counters Share and Read Display three items of the same color. Ask: What do these three things have in common? Identify the color, then guide children to name other items of the same color. Repeat with an object of a different color. Introduce a few colors each day. Display Content Area Flip Chart, page. Identify the colors pictured. Help children to draw a circle around the red crayon. Erase and repeat with the other colors. Play the Please Stand Up! game. Say: Everyone wearing blue pants, please stand up! Continue until all children are standing up. Talk About It Display Activity Card 1a. Help children name the colors. Guide volunteers to sort and place counters on the card. Repeat with 1b. Objective Identify and name colors Materials Math Songs CD: Track 6 Sing Please Stand Up Have children identify the colors in the song. Practice by calling out a color and asking everyone who is wearing that color to stand up. Then have children sit down. Practice standing and sitting down with all the colors in Please Stand Up : red, blue, green, yellow, orange, black, brown, white, purple, and pink. Next, repeat the color names and add the accompanying movement (e.g., clap your hands, shake, jump, hop on one foot, wiggle knees). Model the movements in the song by standing each time you name a color you are wearing and pointing to that article of clothing. This will reinforce the concept visually as well. Finally, play Please Stand Up, Math Songs CD: Track 6. Have children listen for the colors and do the movements while continuing to model it yourself. Copyright. All rights reserved. 2

3 1 Objective Identify colors Materials paper, crayons, colored dot stickers, connecting cubes Play Color I Spy Play I Spy with the class, focusing on the color of objects in the classroom. Display a color chart and point to the color to which you are referring and say: I spy something blue. Ask volunteers to identify and describe the mystery object in the classroom. Continue until you have introduced every color on the chart: blue, red, yellow, orange, green, purple, brown, pink, black, white, and gray. Class Color Search Assign each child, or pairs of children, a color by passing out color dot stickers or connecting cubes of different colors. Instruct children to search for an object in the classroom that is the color of their sticker or cube. Distribute a sheet of paper and allow each child to draw the object he or she finds with a crayon of the corresponding color. Objective Identify colors Materials colored construction paper, colored markers, colored dot checklists Extension Activities Use the following activities to reinforce/extend the learning in upcoming days and weeks. Color Construction Paper Hunt Display different-colored sheets of construction paper on a table. Have children locate objects in the room with different shades of each color and then place the items on the corresponding construction paper. Colored Marker Caps Show children a set of colored markers with the tops removed. Remind children that they must put the caps back on the markers so that the markers do not dry out. Call on children to match a cap to a corresponding marker and then say the color. Color Walk Checklist Go on a walk around the school grounds looking for different colors. Distribute a color dot chart for pairs of children to use to check off all the colors they see on the walk. Copyright. All rights reserved.

4 2 s 1-2 Objective Listen to and identify loud, soft, high, and low environmental sounds Material Music Favorites CD :2-1 Play environmental sounds on Music Favorites CD :2-1. Help children identify the sounds, such as a car horn. Introduce a couple of sounds a day by saying: I am going to play some sounds, and I want you to do the following things: Using a loud voice, say: When you hear a loud sound, cover your ears. Using a soft voice, say: When you hear a soft sound, put your fingers to your lips. Using a high-pitched voice, say: When you hear a high sound, raise your hands up high. Using a low voice, say: When you hear a low sound, put your hands down low. After playing the, invite children to make their own sounds. Say: When I cover my ears, I want you to say LOUD in a loud voice. Repeat with the other sounds. Objective Identify sound patterns Materials rhythm instruments Sing a Chant Lead children in reciting a chant called March This Way, sung to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat! March! March! March this way, Let s all yell Hooray! Clap, snap, clap, snap, clap, snap! Make your hands obey. Guide children to form a circle and replicate the marching pattern following your lead, repeating the clap, snap sequence several times. Make other movement patterns, repeating three times, such as hop, hop, turn. Encourage volunteers to create patterns for the class to copy. Repeat and have children listen to the sound patterns made with rhythm instruments, such as a triangle, bell, tambourine, or drum. Help children to describe the sound patterns, such as ring, bang, ring, bang, ring, bang. Copyright. All rights reserved.

5 2 Materials none Objective Identify and distinguish sounds Listen for Letter Sounds Help children listen for and distinguish individual sounds. Teach children the sound /p/ and the corresponding movement of popping up and down like popcorn. Then teach children the sound /sh/ and the corresponding movement of holding your finger to your mouth and moving around very quietly. Have children form a large circle, spreading far apart from each other. Say a sound, such as /p/. Have children move in a circle saying the sound and performing the action. Switch back and forth between sounds to make the activity fun and surprising. Praise children for their good listening. Objective Identify and distinguish sounds Materials rhythm instruments, drawing materials Extension Activities Use the following activities to reinforce/extend the learning in upcoming days and weeks. Rhythm Instrument Patterns Play a sequence of sounds using rhythm instruments. Have children describe the sounds they hear. What Do You Hear? Have children sit very quietly, listening for sounds all around them. Ask them to draw what they hear. Help them to label their pictures. Roll Call Sort Call out children s names, one at a time. Use either a soft, loud, low, or high-pitched voice. Have children sort themselves according to how their name was spoken. For example, all the children whose names were spoken in a whisper would gather in one group. Use the groups formed for the day s activities. Copyright. All rights reserved.

6 s 1-2 Objective Identify size and weight attributes Materials adult s chair; child s chair; Content Area Flip Chart, p. 6 Share and Read Display an adult s chair next to a child s chair. Ask: Which is big? Which is small? Ask children to suggest other big/small pairs, varying the language to include large and little. Repeat with long/short, heavy/light. Display Content Area Flip Chart, page 6. Discuss which pairs are big/small, short/tall, thick/thin, wide/narrow. Point out that short can be compared with long and tall. Point to the kitten and ask: How can you tell the kitten is small? Discuss how you can hold a kitten in one hand. Help children discuss the other pairs and attributes in a similar way. Talk About It Provide pictures from magazines that show size. Help children use size words to describe the pictures. Objective Identify and distinguish size Materials similar objects of opposite sizes (e.g., small and large toy truck), blocks Which Is Bigger? Help children distinguish between big and small objects. Begin with one set of objects, such as a large and small toy truck. Show one object from the set, say its size, and have children repeat it. For example: This is a small truck. Continue with the other object in the set. For example: This is a large truck. Display a set of large and small objects. Describe an object and ask children to point to or pick up the appropriate one. For example, say: Pick up the large blue block. Ask children to hold the object as they describe it using the correct size word. Repeat the activity with other sizes such as long, short, thick, and thin. Copyright. All rights reserved. 6

7 Objective Identify size and weight attributes Materials modeling clay Make a Pretend Pizza Distribute a ball of modeling clay to each child. Tell children that you will give them directions on how to make a pretend pizza. Demonstrate as you give directions. Take a large piece of clay and flatten it into a wide, thick circle. Show children what thickness looks like by spreading your index finger and thumb wide apart. Take another piece of clay and roll it into a long, thin rope. Spread apart your hands to show what long looks like. Use your index finger and thumb to show thin. Cut the rope into short pieces. Model what short looks like using your hands. Flatten each short piece into a thin, small circle to make the pepperoni. Help children layer the clay to make the pepperoni pizza. Have children describe their pizza using size words. Objective Identify size words Materials story books Extension Activities Use the following activities to reinforce/extend the learning in upcoming days and weeks. Big Step, Little Step Demonstrate big and small movements and have children repeat. For example, take a big step and say: Big step. Have children repeat. Other big and small movements might include wiggling your finger (small) and wiggling your hips (big). Once children are familiar with the movements, shout out movement directions, such as Take a big step or Wiggle your hips, nice and big! Connect to Literature Read aloud classic stories and tales that feature size, such as The Three Little Pigs, The Three Bears, and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. Focus on the size words in the stories. Help children make finger puppets of story characters and act out the stories using the size words. Copyright. All rights reserved. 7