Daily Lesson Plans Extend the Unit Pre-K Week 1:......... 2- Week 2:........... - Week : More..... 6-7 Math Songs for each theme available on CD. Macmillan /McGraw-Hill 1
1 s 1-2 Objective Identify objects that are alike and Materials pairs of socks of colors; Content Area Flip Chart, p. 17 Share and Read Hold up a sock. Ask: What is the color of this sock? Have children say the color with you. Hold up a sock of a color next to the first sock. Ask: Are these two socks the same color or colors? Repeat with socks of the same color, varying the language to include alike. Content Words Display the Content Area Flip Chart, page 17. Guide children to say the colors of the shoes with you. Help them mark an X over the shoe that is. Help children describe how the other shoes are alike. Scramble the three pairs of colored socks. Help children to sort the socks by color. Discuss the sock-color groups. Talk About It Help children sort themselves according to the color of their shoes. Guide them to discuss the shoe colors. Objective Identify things that are alike and Materials Math Songs CD: Track Sing Let s Find Out Play Let s Find Out, on Math Songs CD: Track. Ask children to listen for the words in each group as they are sung. Have children put their heads down and lift them up only if they hear a word that doesn t belong in the group of words. Have children call out the word that does not belong when the teacher says: SHOUT IT OUT! Optional Verses You might wish to use the following optional verses: Things you would find in a kitchen: chair, table, stove, rock, refrigerator, window, sink, clock. Can you say what doesn t fit? SHOUT IT OUT! Things you would find in a park: swings, slide, octopus, grass, children, monkey bars, a container for trash, bikes. Can you say what doesn t fit? SHOUT IT OUT! Names of animals: dog, cow, cat, deer, bear, lion, rabbit, mirror. Can you say what doesn t fit? SHOUT IT OUT! 2
1 Objectives Identify objects that are alike and Materials blocks of shapes and colors Building a Difference Distribute blocks so that each child has the same number and same types of blocks. Explain to children that they will be using the same kinds of blocks to build. Direct children to build something with their blocks. Have children compare what they built. Discuss what is alike and about the structures they built. Ask what will happen if they do the same activity again. Objectives Identify objects that are alike and Materials related objects, drawing materials; Attribute Buttons Extension Activities Use the following activities to reinforce/extend the learning in upcoming days and weeks. Related Items Place several related items on the table, such as a fork and spoon or a pencil and paper. Select one item and ask children to find the related item. For example, you might say: This is a fork. We use a fork when we eat. What other item do we use when we eat? Draw a Friend Have each child draw a picture of a friend and then describe how he or she and his or her friend are alike and. If the Shoe Fits Tell children to remove one of their shoes. Mix up the shoes and have children describe the similarities and differences. Then have children find the shoe that matches the one they have on. Attribute Buttons Give each child an button. Have children find a partner with a similar button (e.g., same shape or color). Have partners tell how their buttons are alike and.
2 s 1-2 Objective Sort and classify objects by one Materials pictures pasted on cards, label cards Picture Sort Make picture cards of people wearing glasses and people not wearing glasses. Content Words Hold up a picture of a person wearing glasses next to a picture of a person not wearing glasses. Ask: What is about what the people are wearing? Guide children to discuss wearing glasses/not wearing glasses. Draw labels for the groups wearing glasses and not wearing glasses. Place the labels where the two groups of pictures will be arranged. Display each picture and have children say wearing glasses or not wearing glasses. Have a volunteer place the picture near the label for that group. Ask: Is this the only way we could sort the pictures? What others things about the people could help us make a rule? Repeat the game with other s. Possible groups include wearing a hat/ not wearing a hat, child/adult, boys/girls, smiling/not smiling, straight hair/curly hair. Objectives Sort and classify objects by one Materials Attribute Buttons Clothing Sort Select a group of children who share a common piece of clothing (e.g., children wearing shoelaces or short sleeves) to stand at one end of a circle area. Select another group of children without that trait to stand at the opposite end of the circle area. Have the rest of the class determine the sorting rule. Ask: How are all these children alike? What is the same about them? Why are these children not a part of that group? Assign children to an is and is not group based on another easily identifiable trait and have the rest of the class determine the sorting rule. Vary this activity by using sets of concrete objects, such as Attribute Buttons, which you can sort by more than one category--size, shape, color.
2 Objectives Sort and classify objects by one Materials Attribute Buttons Attribute Button Sort Display a group of buttons that vary in size, shape, and color. Make sure that no two buttons in the assortment are identical. Content Words Tell children that you are trying to find a missing button that matches the other buttons on a shirt. One at a time, provide three clues or s that describe the button. Pause each time you give one clue and have volunteers sort the buttons from the group that do not match the description. For example: My missing button is small. Which of these do not belong? My missing button is blue. Which of these do not belong? My missing button is shaped like a star. Which of these do not belong? Objectives Sort and classify objects by one Materials play store items, bags, trail mix, photos Extension Activities Use the following activities to reinforce/extend the learning in upcoming days and weeks. Sort the Merchandise Create a store in the play area. Have children decide how to sort the merchandise into categories so that items are easy for customers to locate. For example, foods can be sorted into groups such as fruits, vegetables, and cereals. Nature Walk Take the class on a nature walk. Have children collect various outdoor items and place them in a large bag. Be specific about what children can and cannot touch. Upon returning to the classroom, have children sort the items into groups. Make sure children wash their hands when they are completed. Trail Mix Sort During snack time, distribute bags of trail mix. Have children sort the entire mix by types of food in order to determine which ingredients were included in the snack. Photo Sort Place photos of the children in a center for sorting by hair color, hair style (curly/straight), boy/girl, etc.
More s 1-2 Objective Sort and classify objects by two or more s Materials cutout hats and bows; Content Area Flip Chart, p. 18 Share and Read Provide cutout hats--tall and short of the same color and cutout bows--some spotted and some striped. Give each child a hat or bow. Say: How can you sort yourselves into two groups? Guide children to form a hats group and a bows group. Say: Now how can the hats group sort themselves into two groups? Guide children to form a tall hats and a short hats group. Repeat with the bows group. Content Words Display Content Area Flip Chart, page 18. Point to the objects in the left circle. Ask: How are these alike? What is the sorting rule? Have children estimate the number of hats before counting. Then repeat for the objects in the right circle. Talk About It Guide children to identify the three objects in the far right section. Have them tell which object belongs in the center where the two circles come together and discuss why. Objectives Sort and classify objects by two or more s Materials Attribute Buttons, yarn Venn Diagram Sort Display a set of buttons and form two separate rings with yarn. Select a category, such as red buttons, and call on volunteers to help locate all of the buttons in the collection that have that. Designate one of the rings as a space for displaying the selected buttons. Choose a rule, such as small buttons, and specify the other ring as a space for children to place all the buttons belonging to the new category. Adjust the strings surrounding both groups to join the two rings together, making an intersection in the middle that resembles a Venn diagram. Ask: How are these objects alike? What is the sorting rule? Designate the intersection as a place for children to group all of the buttons that are alike from both rings that are red and small. Have children repeat the sorting rule. 6
More Objectives Sort and classify objects by two or more s Materials colored construction paper, basket, large envelopes Shape Sort Using construction paper, cut out multiple copies of the shapes children have learned, such as circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and stars. Make each shape in colors (e.g., multiple red squares and blue squares). Glue one of each type of shape to the front of individual envelopes. Place the other construction paper shapes in a basket. Have children sort the shapes by placing them into the corresponding envelope (e.g., all the squares go in the envelope with a square glued to the front). In this sort, children will focus on only one. Once children have successfully completed this task, have them sort the shapes by two s--shape and color. Have children state the new sorting rule for each envelope or pile of shapes. Objectives Sort and classify objects by two or more s Materials cooking utensils, modeling clay, clothing items Extension Activities Use the following activities to reinforce/extend the learning in upcoming days and weeks. Center Materials During Center Time, prompt children to discuss ways in which they could use the same materials in centers for purposes. For example, a child could write with a crayon in the Writing Center and color with the same crayon in the Art Center. Classroom Bakery Create a classroom bakery equipped with modeling clay. Provide chef hats, rolling pins, and cookie sheets. Have children make shape cookies and then pretend to fill orders requesting certain types of cookies that can be classified by more than one, such as red, star-shaped cookies. Clothing Sort Place a pile of assorted clothing in a center. Have children sort the clothing by type, then type and color (e.g., shirts versus socks, then blue socks versus white socks). 7