Lily has a new purse that she is very proud of, but what happens when she brings it to school and tries to interrupt the teacher?

Materials

• Blue Prints
• Purse shape
• Pillowcase

Vocabulary

• Jaunty (playful)
• Lurched (jerked forward)
• Furious (very angry)
• Demonstrated (to show how something works)
• Diva (a starlet)

Before Reading the Story

Ask the children to think about a career that they think they would like to be when they grow up?  Help the children learn to recognize that things that they like doing can perhaps be a career later.  (Andres likes to build with blocks, maybe he will grow up and build houses.  Lisa likes to pretend to cook in the dramatic center, maybe she will grow up to be a famous cook and write a cookbook.  Wanita is always playing with the musical instruments, maybe she will grow up to be in a rock and roll band).

Social & Emotional Development/Knowledge of Families & Communities; develops growing awareness of jobs and what is required to perform them.

Reading the Story

Stop on  the page where Lily reads the note that Mr.Slinger placed in her purse.  Though the pictures are small, ask the children to see if they can tell how Lily is feeling,shy?  On the page where Lily’s father makes a tasty snack, ask the children why he said,”I think Mr. Slinger will understand” (Lily said he was a fat mean teacher-she was angry)

Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation;Shows growing interest and involvement in listening to and discussing a variety of fiction and non-fiction, and poetry.

After Reading the Story

Tell the children that you will have a day that they can bring something special to share with the rest of the class.  Let them know that you will send a letter home telling their parent what day they may bring their special item to share.

Discovery

Gather up several objects from each of your centers.  For younger children choose more familiar objects.  Keep these items out of view of the children and place one inside a pillowcase.  Challenge a child to put their hand inside the pillow case and try to figure out what the object is by using their sense of touch only.  Encourage the children to play this game with a partner.

Science/Scientific Skills & Methods; begins to use senses and a variety of tools and simple measuring devices to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships.

Music and Movement

Put on some music and tell the children that you are all going to do some “Interpretive Dancing” just like Lilly and Mr Slinger did.  Put on the music and have fun.

Creative Arts/Movement; expresses through movement and dancing what is felt and heard in various musical tempos and styles.

Sing I’ve Got A Penny

            I’ve got a penny, I’ve got a penny

            I’ve got a penny shiny and new.

            I’m gonna buy all kinds of ______

            That’s what I’m gonna do.

Child names what they would buy if they had money.  Use a quarter like in the story and as you sing the children can pass it around so that the person with the quarter gets to name what they would buy.

Approaches to Learning/Reasoning  & Problem Solving; develops increasing ability to find more than one solution to a question, task, or problem.

Blocks

Add blueprints to the center and encourage the children to see if they can follow them just  like a real builder or architect would. 

Mathematics/Patterns & Measurement; enhances abilities to recognize, duplicate, and extend simple patterns using a variety of materials.

Ahead of time, make simple block structures using 3-6 blocks. Challenge the children to copy your structure.  This can also be done by taking pictures of the structures and tape them to the wall for the children to copy using the blocks.  As they copy tell them that they are reading the directions.

Mathematics/Patterns & Measurement; enhances abilities to recognize, duplicate, and extend simple patterns using a variety of materials. 

Art

Give each child a simple purse shape.  Put out magazines and scissors and have the children cut out items and then glue them onto their purse.  These can be hung on the wall with a sign that states, “What’s In Your Purse?”.   (When I have told the children that this is what out bulletin board says, they begin to have fun and cut out crazy stuff and laugh that it would be found inside a purse (cars, spaghetti on a plate,animals, a baby). 

Approaches to Learning/Reasoning & Problem Solving; develops increasing ability to find more than one solution to a question, task, or problem. 

Sand and Water

Add play money/coins to the sand today.  As the children dig and find the coins, ask them if they can name the coins.  After they have found a handful, encourage them to sort the coins by like kinds. Then have them bury them back into the sand for another child to dig and find.

Mathematics/Geometry & Spatial Sense; begins to be able to determine whether or not two shapes are the same size and shape.

Library and Writing

Remind the children that in the book, the children went to the Lightbulb Lab where they could draw and write about any ideas that they had. Tell the children that today you are going to use your writing center as a Lightbulb Lab.  Encourage the children to use paper and pencil to draw out inventions or things that they would like.  Go over occasionally and ask the children if they would like you to add any dictation to their work.

Literacy/Early Writing; begins to represent stories and experiences through pictures, dictation, and in play.  AND Science/ScientificSkills & Knowledge; develops growing abilities to collect, describe, and record information through a variety of means, including discussion, drawings, maps, and charts.

Dramatic Play

Add purses to the center today.  Try to have many smaller items that the children can put into their purses (play money, wallet, small mirror, paper and pencils, sunglasses, gloves, etc.)

Approaches to Learning/Initiative & Curiosity; chooses to participate in an increasing variety of tasks and activities.

Math andManipulatives

Put out any puzzles that you might have that depict children at school.  As the children work on the puzzles ask them to talk about what is happening in the picture. Can they describe using full sentences? 

Language Development/Speaking & Communicating; progresses in abilities to initiate and respond appropriately in conversation and discussion with peers and adults.

Outdoor Play

Remind the children that in the story, Lily was so happy that she ran and skipped and hopped all the way home.  Play a follow the leader game on the playground and run and skip and hop about.

Physical Health & development/Gross Motor Skills; shows increasing levels of proficiency, control, and balance in walking, climbing, running, jumping, hopping, skipping, marching, and galloping.

Transitions

Bring a purse to the rug and a box or bag that the children cannot see through filled with different pieces of equipment from the room.  Put an item into the bag without the children seeing and let a child feel inside to guess what it is in the purse.  Make sure you use items that the children are familiar with.  (Some things that I have used are; small cars, crayons, magnifying glass, play person, wallet from dress-ups, a shoe from dress-ups, turkey baster from water table, etc)

Science/Scientific Skills & Methods; begins to use senses and a variety of tools and simple measuring devices to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships.

Dear Parent-  We have decided that we would like to do ashow and tell at school.  Your child isbeing asked to bring something that they consider special to school to shareand talk about with the other children. We will make sure that this item is put up safely after your child hasshared  it with the class.  Your child’s day is _____________.

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