This document outlines the weekly lesson plan and activities for a preschool classroom. The theme for the week is "Pets" and focuses on where pets live. Each day includes activities like art, library time, group discussions and writing about habitats, cages, and the needs of pets. Read-alouds, small group activities, and outdoor play are also scheduled. Guest visitors include an animal expert and swimming. The goals are to learn about similarities and differences in animals, rhyming words, alliteration, and classification skills.

1. Week of: April 13-17 Teacher: Sara, Mary, Karen, Lisa, Robin
Study: Pets Investigation: Where do pets live?
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Interest Areas Blocks: Photos of various
habitats
Discovery: materials
for creating a nest
Library: Writing
Materials
Art: Books about
Classroom Pets
Library: photos or
books that show how
to approach
unfamiliar animals
Large Group Song: This is the Way
Discussion and Shared
Writing: What Does our
Classroom Pet Need in
Their Habitat?
Letter A
Game: My Name Too!
Discussion and Shared
Writing: How do Pets
Make Their Own Bed?
Game: Oh! Dear
What Can the Matter
Be?
Discussion and
Shared Writing: Why
Do Some Pets Live
in Cages?
Movement: Silly
Willy Walking
Discussion and
Shared Writing: Our
Pet in the Natural
World
Song: We Like
Clapping
Discussion and
Shared Writing:
Visitor An animal
expert
Read-Aloud Clifford the Small Red
Puppy
Have You Seen my Cat Mice Squeak, We
Speak
A Fish Out of Water The Best Nest
Small Group Morning: Tongue
Twisters/Magic Noodle
Pet Creation
Afternoon: Same Sound
Sort/Cooking Club
Morning: Calm-Down
Place/Bird’s Library (at
Kendal)
Afternoon: Doggy,
Doggy, where’s your
bone
Morning: Writing
Poems/Bird’s
Grandfriends
Afternoon:
Swimming
Morning: Same
Sound Sort
Afternoon:
Rhyming Riddles/
Giraffe
Grandfriends
Morning: Giraffe
Library
Afternoon: Lining It
Up
Ohio Early
Learning &
Development
Standards
Recognize when words
share phonemes
Similarities &
differences exist among
individuals of the same
kind of animal
Recognize & produce
rhyming words
Recognize when
words share
phonemes
Describe measurable
attributes of objects,
such as length or
weight
Gold Objectives,
Dimensions &
Indicators
Notices & discriminates
alliteration
Demonstrates
knowledge of the
characteristics of living
things
Generates a group of
rhyming words when
given a word.
Notices &
discriminates
alliteration
Use classification
skills
Outdoor Experiences: Play Dough Weaving
Family Partnerships: Swimming - Wednesday
Wow! Experiences: Story Time with Donna, Cooking Club, Intergen. Bird’s Library at KELC on Tues, Giraffe’s Library on Friday