This document contains the weekly lesson plans for birds and giraffes. It includes the morning and afternoon large and small group activities, extras, before lunch group, and extensions for each day of the week from Monday to Friday. The activities focus on topics like outdoor snow play, books, songs, calendar, weather, sensory play with snow, and visits from special guests. They are designed to meet Ohio's early learning guidelines and Key Developmental Indicators in various domains like science, social-emotional development, creative arts, and math.

1. Birds and Giraffes Weekly Lesson Plans Winter
A.M. Large AM Small Extras Before Lunch Extensions Ohio’s HighScope P.M. Small
Group Activity Group Activity Group Guidelines Key Developmental Group Activity
(9:15) (9:45) (11:15) Indicators (3:15)
1. Shake our Sillies Puffy Polar
Outdoor Polly Snowflake g. Science Scientific
Monday
2. Start our day song Book, Songs
Snow Play Visits Matching and Inquiry for EC Bear
1-7
3. Calendar/helpers & Finger
& Weather Technology Doing Scientific
plays
4. Book:
45. Inquiry 5
Observing
1. Shake our Sillies Book, Songs Snow in G. Science and
2. Start our day song ELI Trip Technology Scientific Q-Tip
& Finger the
Tuesday
3. Calendar/helpers Donna plays 46. Classifying Inquiry for EC Snowflakes
1-8
& Weather Snow Story Sensory Doing Scientific
4. Book: Table
PIcture Time Inquiry 6
1. Shake our Sillies Grand Book, Songs
Show and Snow in the B. Social Economics for Cutting and
Wednesday
2. Start our day song & Finger
Tell parenting Sensory and EC Lacing
3. Calendar/helpers
1-10
for Birds plays
& Weather Table Emotional Scarcity and MIttens
4. Book:
Development Resource
11. Allocation 2
Community
1. Shake our Sillies Grand Book, Songs F. Creative
Paper Plate Snow in Social Studies Intergen
Thursday
2. Start our day song & Finger
Snow Globe parenting the Arts Skills and Group
1-11
3. Calendar/helpers plays
& Weather for 40. Art
Giraffes Sensory Methods for EC Giraffes
4. Book:
Table Communicating
Information 3
Marie
1. Shake our Sillies Book, Songs
2. Start our day song visits in Snow in E. Geometry and Lid
& Finger
Friday
Coffee Filter AM the Mathematics Spatial Sense Snowman
1-12
3. Calendar/helpers plays
& Weather Snowflake Sensory 34. Shapes for EC
4. Book:
Dan Table Characteristics
visits in and Properties
PM 4