This document provides the weekly lesson plan for a preschool classroom focusing on exercise. The plan includes: 1) Daily interest areas and activities related to different types of exercise like dramatic play with exercise equipment, art projects with exercise pictures, and games like Twister to explore movement. 2) Large group activities like songs, discussions, and movement games to learn about exercise. 3) Read-alouds of books about sports and movement. 4) Small group activities focusing on topics like cooking, puzzles, and graphing to integrate other learning. 5) The goals of helping children understand how physical activity helps the body and identifying body parts and their functions. Families are encouraged to discuss types

1. Week of: January 12-16 Teacher: Sara, Karen, Mary, Gabbie, Jenn
Study: Exercise Investigation: 1. What are different kinds of exercise?
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Interest
Areas
Dramatic Play: new
pieces of exercise
equipment
Art: magazines with
pictures of people
exercising; scissors; glue
Toys and Games: Twister®
games; beanbag game
Dramatic Play: collection of
exercise equipment,
clothing, and shoes;
examples of exercise
journals; masking tape for
fitness stations
Discovery: a variety of
empty and clean plastic
water bottles with lids;
scale; markers; tape;
sand; scoops; funnels
Question of
the Day
What can we do
with this?
What types of exercise
will we see on our site
visit?
How can you exercise with
this?
Do you have a
question for our
visitor?
Which of these exercises
do you like
to do with a partner?
Large
Group
Song:
“Paper Towel Rap”
Discussion and Shared
Writing: New Years
Tradition Vistior
Song:
“Hi-Ho, the Derry-O”
Discussion and Shared Writing:
Site Visit
Movement:
Let’s Pretend
Discussion and Shared
Writing: Fitness Stations
Movement:
Listening Story
Discussion and Shared
Writing: Exercise Visitor
Movement:
Let’s Stick Together
Discussion and Shared Writing:
Exercise Charts
Read-
Aloud
Soccer Counts/
¡El fútbol cuenta!
Bear on a Bike Soccer Counts/
¡El fútbol cuenta!
Bear on a Bike Soccer Counts/
¡El fútbol cuenta!
Small
Group
Morning: Tallying
Afternoon: Cooking
Club
Morning: Stick Letters
Afternoon: What Was
for Breakfast?
Morning: My Shadow and I
Birds - Intergen
Afternoon: Putting Puzzles
Together
Morning:
Bookmaking
Afternoon: Intergen
Group
Morning: Library
Afternoon: Graphing
Ohio Early
Learning &
Development
Standards
Personal family
stories and traditions
support the
understanding of
heritage
Demonstrate basic
understanding that
physical activity helps
the body grow and be
healthy
Use non-locomotor skills
with control, balance and
coordination during active
play (e.g., bending,
stretching, and twisting)
Identify and
describe the function
of body parts
Follow basic health
practices
Gold
Objectives,
Dimensions
& Indicators
Demonstrates
knowledge about
self
Takes responsibility for
own well-being
Experiments with different
ways of balancing
Demonstrates
knowledge about
self
Takes responsibility for
own well-being
Outdoor Experiences: Various Types of Exercise; Hopping; Body Part Balance
Family Partnerships: Please teach your children this week about the types of exercise you enjoy.
Wow! Experiences: Monday: Classroom visitor who shares a New Years family tradition.
Tuesday: Site visit where children can see others exercising.
Thursday: Classroom visitor who shares information about an exercise he/she likes.