Follow along as a little girls spends a day joyfully along with her Mother. The illustrations help capture the love bond between Mother and Daughter.

Materials

A bit of moss if it grows in your area

Roll of aluminum foil

Paint color samples in reds, pinks, blues, purples, and fuschia (these are free anywhere wall paint is sold) TWO of each sample

Cut out several heart shapes from manila file or cardboard

Vocabulary

Silver (a shiny grayish white color)

Fuschia (a purpley pink color)

Plaid (fabric with a checkered pattern)

Before Reading the Story

Play If You’re Wearing; Call out If your wearing______ name a color-do an action. (If you’re wearing red jump up and down). As you play make sure to include the color silver. (Many children do not know what silver color looks like. Have them check their zippers and shoe ielts).

Language Development/Listening & Understanding; shows progress in understanding and following simple and multiple-step directions.

Reading the Story

On the page where it starts, “Out we go!”, ask the children where they think the Mama and girl are going? On the next page where it states,”I watch for Max’s tail” ask the children if they can guess who Max is? On the page with the word, “splash!” ask the children what they think this means? (They are playing in the puddles).

Literacy/Book Knowledge & Appreciation; demonstrates abilities to retell and dictate stories from books and experiences; to act out stories in dramatic play; and to predict what will happen next in a story

After Reading the Story plaid

In the story the girl put on her plaid pants. Ask the children if any of them are wearing plaid? Explain that plaid is made by a checkered pattern (show them a picture of plaid if no one is wearing it). Does your room contain any plaid patterns? If so, can the children recognize it?

Language Development/Listening & Understanding; understands an increasingly complex and varied vocabulary.

On a large piece of paper draw two bowls of oatmeal. On one put blueberries on top and on the other put banana slices. Ask the children to tell which they like better, bananas or blueberries on top. Write their name underneath the correct bowl and hang it on the wall where they can see it.

Social & Emotional Development/Self-Concept; begins to develop and expres awareness of self in terms of specific abilities, characteristics, and preferences.

Discovery

If moss grows in your area, bring in a clump for the children to explore. Put it onto a damp washcloth or it will dry out. How does it feel, smell, look? Encourage the children to use their senses to describe.

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

Sing to I’m a Little Teapot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E6_PNxed5Y The children can act out the poem-song.

I’m a little paint brush short and stout,

Dip me in paint and pull me out.

Move me across the page and you will see,

What pretty pictures are made by me!

Creative Arts/Music; participates with increasing interest and enjoyment in a variety of musical activities, including listening, singing, finger plays, games, and performances.

Have the children pretend to put on their boots. Play the song, Jump in Puddles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mKSJV8L9nU

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

Do the chant, Brush Your Teeth. As you chant, act out the different motions.

Brush your teeth everyday,

Up and down it is the right way.

Back and forth and circles too,

That’s just what you’ve got to do.

Brush your teeth everyday,

Up and down it is the right way.

Physical Health & Development/Health Status & Practices; shows growing independence in hygiene, nutrition, and personal care when eating, dressing, hand washing, brushing teeth, and toileting.

Blocks

Make many squares of aluminum foil that are large enough to cover different sized blocks. Show the children how to ‘wrap’ a block with foil. Let the children wrap blocks and later use to build. Note to the children that the color of the foil is silver.

Physical Health & Development/Fine Motor Skills; grows in hand-eye coordination in building with blocks, putting together puzzles, reproducing shapes and patterns, stringing beads, and using scissors.

Art

At the easel today put out red, blue, and white paint for the children to mix and experiment with. Can they make purple, violet, pink, and fushia?

Science/Scientific Skills & Methods; begins to participate in simple investigations to test observations, discuss and draw conclusions, and form generalizations.

Encourage the children to draw pictures of their families today using colored pencils or markers. When they are finished, help them name and label the people.

Social & Emotional Development/Knowledge of Families & Communities; develops ability to identify personal characteristics, including gender and family composition.

Library and Writing

Put out the heart shapes for the children to trace around using markers or crayons. Ask the children what they call their Mother and write it on a piece of paper along with “& me”. The children can then write Mama/Mommy/Mom and Me onto the heart shape and cut it out.

Literacy/Early Writing; progresses from using scribbles, or shapes to represent ideas, to using letter-like symbols, to copying or writing familiar words such as their own name. AND Physical Health & Development/Fine Motor Skills; grows in hand-eye coordination in building with blocks, putting together puzzles, reproducing shapes and patterns, stringing beads, and using scissors.

Sand and Water

Put out containers for pouring. Make sure to include any containers you have with holes in the bottom to make rain.

Social & Emotional Development/Self-Control; demonstrates increasing capacity to follow rules and routines and use materials purposefully, safely, and respectfully.

Dramatic Play boots

Add boots of various sizes and raingear to the center today. Include a recording of a rainstorm.

Creative Arts/Dramatic PLay; participates in a variety of dramatic play activities that become more extended and complex.

Set up a doll house if you have one.

Creative Arts/Dramatic PLay; participates in a variety of dramatic play activities that become more extended and complex.

Math and Manipulatives

Put the samples into a bowl and let the children match the sets of colors. If more than one color on the paint sample, seperate them.

Mathematics/Geometry & Spatial Sense; shows increasing abilities to match, sort, put in a series, and regroup objects according to one or two attributes such as color, shape or size.

Outdoors make a puddle on the sidewalk-barefoot

Make a puddle on the sidewalk today. Let the children take off their shoes and go barefoot through the puddle and make foot prints beyond. Afterwards have them dry their feet, can they put their shoes back on the correct feet?

Physical Health & Development/Health Status & Practices; shows growing independence in hygiene, nutrition, and personal care when eating, dressing, hand washing, brushing teeth, and toileting.

Make a puddle on the sidewalk and use a piece of chalk to draw all around the edges. As your outside time goes, check back to see if there are any changes to the puddle. Talk to the children about evaporation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRLqAhaniyg

Science/Scientific Knowledge; shows increased awareness and beginning understanding of changes in materials and cause-effect relationships.

Transitions

Play Which is…taller, longer, wider, smaller, bigger, shorter, heavier, lighter. Ask the child a question that has two answers (which is longer, a jump rope or your foot? Which is taller a house or car? Etc.).

Mathematics/Geometry & Spatial Sense; begins to be able to determine whether or not two shapes are the same size and shape. AND Approaches to Learning/Reasoning & problem Solving; develops increasing abilities to classify, compare and contrast objects, events, and experiences.

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