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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson: What Will I See At The Zoo? Board Focused Domain: Language

Goal: Help children learn the different kinds of zoo animals there is.

Objective: Children will cut out pictures from magazines of zoo animals and paste them to the board.

Procedure: At large group children will be notified of the activity taking place, they will be cutting
pictures of zoo animals and pasting them in to a big board. The board will have the letters, what will I see at the zoo? In small groups of five, children will first cut pictures of animals from magazine and lastly they will paste them onto board.

Advanced Preparation: Have magazines of zoo animals and board available with the words
what will I see at the Zoo? already on it and ready to present.

List Materials:

Scissors, magazines, board with letters, and glue sticks.

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Cognitive, Physical, Social, Emotional and Creative.

Future Plans: Simplify: If children need to practice cutting, I will draw a shape around the piece
they want to cut.

Challenge: As they paste the pictures in the board, I will ask them what are the sounds that each of
the animals make.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, Children will learn what kinds of animals are found in
the zoo; Cognitive, are learning concepts of space between objects when they are cutting; Social, children work together; Physical, children are exercising fine motor skill when cutting; Emotional, children learn self-regulation skills And Creative, children use their creativity to figure out what they cut out to paste at board.

Transition Plan: Clean up song Were Going To the Zoo! to get children ready for physical
activites.

Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Story Book
Topic/Title of Lesson______
Whats the Matter Habibi?

Focused Domain__________
Language

Goal:

Understand that print has meaning.

Objective:

Children will be listening to the story and participating as I read.

Procedure:

Introduce the book to children and say This book is funny and its about a camel that wanted a hat, Will you like to hear it? have children participate in the reading by engaging them in the repetitive, predictable parts of the book.

Advanced Preparation: Had practiced reading the book a few times and ready to present, in order
for the story to flow smoothly. Identify the predictable parts to engage children in story.

List Materials: Book, Whats The Matter Habibi?

Developmental Benefits: Language Cognitive, Emotional and Social.

Future Plan: Simplification: Reread story so children can remember lines. Challenge: Children will reenact story with props made by them.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, children will learn a certain zoo animal which is the
camel and apply it in their language; Cognitive, children will make connections to past learned materials; Emotional; self-soothing skills are taught; Social, children learn prosocial skills when working as a whole group.

Transition Plan:
Sing the song Sally the camel to transition to lunch time.

Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson______ Dramatization, My Heart is Like a Zoo. Focused Domain __________ Creative.

Goal:

Children will use creativity and know there is more than one way to do things.

Objective:

Children will act out the story book characters with action verbs from the story.

Procedure : After having heard the story of My Heart is Like A Zoo a few times in previous days .
Children are going to reenact the story. First, an explanation and demonstration will be given to let them know they could reenact as they perceive it to be. Second, the Props that children made previously will be passed out according to children that volunteer for the dramatization. Finally, the story will be read for the reenactment.

Advanced Preparation: Have the props and book in a container and ready to begin at circle time.

List Materials:
Already made animal props from story book. Book: My Heart is Like A Zoo.

Developmental Benefits:

Creative, Language, Physical, Social, Emotional and Cognitive.

Future Plans: Simplify: If child doesnt really know what to do give examples for the child to act
out and let them do it for self.

Challenge: Ask what types of sounds does the animal who they are presenting, makes.

Student Learning Outcomes: Creative, children can act out

the action verbs from the story in any way they wish or interpret; Language, they are building language skills ;physical ,they are exercising gross motor skills as they act out the book; Social ,they are socializing with the group members ;Emotional, they get to enjoy activity; Cognitive, children make mental processes by thinking back to previous readings.

Transition Plan:

Sing a song We Went To The Animal Fair for lunch time.

Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Zoo Animals Smallest to biggest. Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal:

Children will learn size and sequence.

Objective:

Children will put together the zoo animals from smallest to biggest.

Procedure:

After previous demonstration at large group with animal shapes the concept of small and big. Children will be asked to play an individual activity with animal figures and put them from smallest to biggest.

Advanced Preparation: Have shapes cut out and laminated to present the activity individually.

List Materials:
Google images of animals, scissors, laminating sheets, and tape.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, language, Social, and physical.

Future Plans: Simplify: Scaffold and ask child which shape is smaller than the other. Challenge: Add more animal figures to the activity.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, when child is

able to understand the concept of smallest to biggest; Language, is extended as the concept of smallest to biggest is understood and added to childs vocabulary; Social, emerging social skills are practiced when the child and teacher interact; Physical, hand and eye coordination are exercised as the child puts the sequence in order.

Transition Plan:

Song Lets go to the zoo to transition to group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Bears in a Row Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal: Children will learn sequence of patterns with colors.

Objective:

Children will sequence the pattern of AB, AB with color bears.

Procedure: In large group children will be mentioned that an individual activity will take place
where they will arrange a pattern with colored bears. First, at a table, having all the materials, a demonstration of the pattern AB, AB will be placed and lastly, the child will be asked to finish the pattern.

Advanced Preparation:

Have manipulatives in a bucket and colored stripes available, so each child is able to play individually.

List Materials:

A pack of 3 different colored bear manipulatives, colored stripes and bucket.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, Physical, Social and Language.

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Future Plans:
pattern.

Simplify: simplify by using the illustration of colored stripes with the AB, AB

Challenge: Have children do an ABC, ABC pattern with the colored manipulatives.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, Child will learn what patterns are; Physical, child is
exercising hand and eye coordination; Social, child and teacher interaction; Language, child is learning and reinforcing color concepts.

Transition Plan:
Song, Animals are so charming to transition to large group for physical exercises.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Animal Numbers Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal: To help children understand number concepts through zoo animal pictures.

Objective:

Children will roll dice and identify the number from dice and color the picture of one of the six animal figures with the number on the dice.

Procedure: In large group children will be given a demonstration of the game and told that when
they roll the dice a number will show that indicates what figure they will color. Step 1:In a group of five , children will be instructed to play and roll the dice . Step 2: Children will then color one of the six pictures indicated by the dice.

Advanced Preparation: Have the copies of animal prints printed out and ready.
checked for replacement if necessary.

Have colors

List Materials: Copies of animal sheets, colors, and dice.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, Language, Social, Physical and Creative.

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Future Plans: Simplify, change the dice to animals instead of numbers. Challenge: Change the dice to dots instead of numbers.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, Children will identify numbers and recognize them;
Language, number concepts and animals are reinforced in vocabulary. Social, children are interacting with teacher; Creative, children will use creativity to color the picture; Physical children are exercising fine motor and hand and eye coordination.

Transition Plan: Song Walking in The Jungle to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Snake Puzzle Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal:

Help children understand classification of animals and arrangement of numbers.

Objective:

Children will color and cut the snake picture to put it in numerical order.

Procedure In large group children will be introduced to the activity they will be playing in small
groups of five. Step1: In small group they will be instructed to color the puzzle picture of the snake. Step2: Children will cut the snake picture .Step3: Children will put it back together in numerical order.

Advanced Preparation: Have sheets of puzzles printed out. Have crayons and scissors checked
for damages.

List Materials: Snake sheets printed, crayons and scissors.

Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, Language, Social, Emotional, Creative and Physical.

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Future Plans: Simplify, have children cut picture and color it and help them put it back together.
Challenge, instead of numbers place letters.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, children will learn the animal snake and the
arrangement of numbers; Language, children will include snake and numbers into their language; Social, children learn prosocial skills working with other children; Emotional, children learn emotion regulation skills; Creative, children use creativity, coloring the picture; Physical, children exercise fine motor skills and hand ad eye coordination.

Transition Plan:
Song At The Zoo to transition to physical activity for large group.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Book: Biggest, Strongest, Fastest Focused Domain __________ Language

Goal:

Help children learn about the different kinds of animals at the zoo and facts about them.

Objective:

Children will listen to the story and interact in the story telling.

Procedure: Story will be read in large group time. Step1:

children will listen to the story reading Step 2: Children will interact with questions such as who knew that the elephant was the biggest animal in the land?

Advanced Preparation: so it may go smoothly.

practiced reading the book a few times before presenting to the children

List Materials: Book, Biggest, strongest, Fastest.

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Cognitive, Social ,Emotional, and creative

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Future Plans: Children will make a group collage on zoo animals.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, children will learn different kinds of animals and
differences between them; Cognitive, children can categorize differences in animals; Creative, children can be creative and interact in reading with no right or wrong answers; Social, children interact with one another; Emotional, children learn self-regulation skills.

Transition Plan: to lunch.

finger play, Five Little Monkeys swinging In a Tree for hand washing to transition

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Z for zebra Focused Domain __________ Language

Goal:

Children will learn letters through zoo animals.

Objective:

Children will trace and color the letter z along with the picture of the zebra.

Procedure:

At large group children will be introduced to the activity and explain that in small groups of five they will be tracing and coloring the letter z for zebra. Step1: In small groups of five children will first trace the letter z. Step2: Children will then color the letter z and the picture of the zebra.

Advanced Preparation: Have enough copies sheets of the zebra with the letter z.

List Materials:

Copy sheets, colors, and pencils,

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Creativity, Social, Emotional, Cognitive, and Physical.

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Future Plans:

More letters through animals.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, children will learn the letter z through the zebra;
Creative, children will use creativity to color; Social, children learn to work with other children; Emotional, children learn self-soothing skills; Cognitive, children learn to make connections of learned materials; Physical, children exercise fine motor skills along with hand and eye coordination.

Transition Plan:
Song Were Going To The Zoo to transition to large group physical activity.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Animal Habitats Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal:

Classification of animal habitats where animals live.

Objective:

Children will classify where the dolphin, penguin, and lion live, into three categories of aquatic, land, or land/water.

Procedure:

In large group children will be given a story of what kind of animal habitats there is. In small groups of five children will Step1: color the Penguin, Lion, and dolphin pictures.Step2: children will then cut the pictures. Step: 3 children will paste the picture to the habitat picture indicating land, water or land/water.

Advanced Preparation: Have 3 pictures per child indicating the land, water and land/water
already colored for them. Have the sheets of the animals printed out for the activity.

List Materials: Habitat sheets, animal sheets, scissors, colors and glue sticks.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, language, social, emotional, creative, and physical.

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Future Plans: Simplify: Show only the aquatic and land animals, two categories instead of three.
Challenge: Add more animal pictures.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, children will learn the different kinds of animal
habitats there is; Language, children will apply new vocabulary into their language; Physical, children exercise fine motor skills along with hand and eye coordination; Creative, children use creativity with activity; Social, children learn to work as a group; Emotional, children are learning emotional regulation skills.

Transition Plan:

Song We went to the animal fair to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Am I a Domestic or Wild Animal? Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal: Help children understand the differences between domestic and wild animals.

Objective:

Children will classify animals into the categories of domestic and wild.

Procedure: At large group time children will be told a story, about what kinds of animals are
domestic and which are wild. In small groups of five children will; Step1: color the pictures of a dog, cat, and lion. Step2: children will cut the animal pictures. Step3: children will paste the animal pictures into two pictures, one of a house and the other of a jungle.

Advanced Preparation: have two sheets of both the house and jungle per child already colored
for them, copies of animals coloring sheets one per child. Colors checked and scissors.

List Materials: Copies of sheets with house and jungle, copies of animal sheets, colors, scissors, and
glue sticks.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, language, creative, emotional, physical, and Social.

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Future Plans: Read a story about what animals eat.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, children learn to classify between what animals are
domestic and which are wild; Language, children learn new vocabulary and apply it to their language; Creative, children acquire creative skills in problem solving with activity; Social, children learn to work with others; Emotional, children learn emotion regulation skills; Physical, children exercise fine motor skills along with hand and eye coordination.

Transition Plan:

Finger play The Zoo to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ I am the King of The Jungle. Focused Domain __________ Creativity

Goal:

Help children use their creativity in the process of making a lion .

Objective:

Children will make a lion face with paper plates.

Procedure: At large group a demonstration of what they will be doing in small groups with the lion
activity will take place. In small groups of five children will Step1: paint the paper plate with whatever color they like. Step2: children will color the eyes, nose and mouth pieces from the sheet. Step 3: children will cut the eyes, nose and mouth pieces. Step4: children will glue the body parts to the paper plate. Step 5: children will then glue yarn strings to make the lions main.

Advanced Preparation: have paint ready, enough plates, yarn pieces cut for children to glue,
scissors checked and ready for activity.

List Materials: Glue sticks, colors, paint, scissors, plates, yarn and copy sheets of the body parts of
the lion.

Developmental Benefits:

Creative, language, cognitive, social, emotional, and physical.

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Future Plans: Make more different animal plates.

Student Learning Outcomes: Creativity, children learn to use creativity all around the activity;
Language, art vocabulary is acquired ;Physical, children exercise fine motor skills along with hand and eye coordination; Cognitive, children learn to problem solve through art materials, Emotional, children learn emotional regulation skills; Social, children learn to work with each other.

Transition Plan:
Poem Zoo Fun to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Animal Paw Prints Focused Domain __________ Creative

Goal:

To introduce children to the different characteristics in animals.

Objective:

Children will print sponge paws of the lion, giraffe, monkey, and the bear onto construction paper.

Procedure: In large group a demonstration of what they will be doing with the paw sponges in small
groups, will take place. In small groups of five children will, Step1: Soak the sponge paws onto one of the four different paint plates. Step2: children then will print sponges of the different animals onto construction paper.

Advanced Preparation: Have the different animal sponges for children, and check cans of paint.

List Materials: Four different kinds of color paints, plates, animal sponges, and construction paper.

Developmental Benefits:

Creativity, language, cognitive, social, emotional and physical.

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Future Plans: Children will make animal shapes.

Student Learning Outcomes: Creativity, children use creativity, mixing colors; Language,
children acquire art vocabulary, Social, children learn to work with others; Emotional, children learn how to calm; Physical, children exercise fine motor skills and hand and eye coordination; Cognitive, children learn problem solving skills when working in the activity.

Transition Plan:
activities.

Song Sally The Camel for clean-up to transition to large group physical

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Animal Hunt Focused Domain __________ Emotional/Cognitive

Goal:

Help children with self-awareness skills and reinforce learned concepts of zoo animal names.

Objective:

Children will hunt under the beans for zoo animals.

Procedure: After announcing at large group of the new activity at the sensory table, with given
instructions on safety. In small groups of two children will: Step1: feel the materials in the activity.Step2: children will hunt for the various zoo animals.

Advanced Preparation: have the sand area full of black beans and have various zoo animal figures ready for the activity.

List Materials: Black beans and various zoo animals.

Developmental Benefits:

Emotional, Cognitive, language, Social, Creative and Physical.

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Future Plans: Create the water sensory table with various aquatic and amphibian animals.

Student Learning Outcomes: Emotional, children learn awareness of self and self-soothing
skills for emotion regulation; Cognitive, children reinforce learned concepts from previous activities; Language, children learn to dialogue with each other; Social, children learn to share and work with each other; Creative, children learn to be creative with their imagination and pretend play; Physical, children are exercising both gross and fine motor skills.

Transition Plan:
Song Lion song to transition to physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Under The Sea Focused Domain __________ Emotional/Cognitive

Goal:

Children will learn awareness of self and reinforcement of learned concepts from zoo animals.

Objective:

Children will feel with their senses the water and play with the aquatic animals such as

dolphins, penguins, seals and turtles.

Procedure: After announcing in large group of the new activity and bringing children back to the
previous activity of animal habitats. In small groups of two children will feel the water and play with the aquatic animals in the water table.

Advanced Preparation: Have the figures of dolphins, turtles, seals, and penguins.
Fill the water table with water.

List Materials: Water table, water, and animal figures dolphins, turtles, seals, and penguins.

Developmental Benefits:

Emotional, Cognitive, Language, Social, Physical, and Creative.

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Future Plans: Sensory activity with sand with land zoo animals.

Student Learning Outcomes: Emotional, children learn awareness of self along with selfsoothing skills; Cognitive, children reinforce the previous activity concept of land versus aquatic animals; Language, children learn new vocabulary such as aquatic animals; Social, children dialogue with each other as well as learning to play with one another ;Physical ,children exercise both fine and gross motor skills , playing with the figurines; Creative, children learn to use their imagination with activity.

Transition Plan:
Song Ten Little Penguins to transition to physical exercises at large group.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ The Lion and the Mouse. Focused Domain __________ Creative

Goal:

Introduce children to the various forms of art (dramatization).

Objective: Children will act out the story fable book of The Lion and the Mouse with props made by
them.

Procedure :At large group children will be told of the dramatization activity where they are going to
act out the story book of The Lion and The Mouse . Teacher will first pass out the props that the children made, at a previous activity of the story. Second, teacher will ask for volunteers to act out the lion and the mouse parts of the book but will emphasize that the lines dont have to be exact. Finally, children will reenact along with props the lines from the book.

Advanced Preparation: Have the book The Lion and The Mouse and the props ready for the
activity.

List Materials: Story book The Lion and The Mouse and props.

Developmental Benefits: Creative, Language, Physical, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive.

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Future Plans: Simplify, the teacher can make a demonstration if child doesnt understand and child
can imitate from example. Challenge: Children will be asked during another dramatization of the same play, if they ever did anything nice for a friend that later found it to be rewarding.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, Children learn new vocabulary from the story book;
Creative, children learn to use body expression and creativity with the play since there is no wrong or right way to reenact a story; Physical, children exercise gross motor skills in activity; Emotional, dramatization helps with playing out fears, if any and self-regulation skills; Social, Children learn to play with one another in a large group; Cognitive, children learn to apply past knowledge to new experiences.

Transition Plan:
Song The Kangaroo to transition to lunch.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Welcome To the Zoo. Focused Domain __________ Creative

Goal:

Help children discover the use of art materials and techniques.

Objective:

Children will color a background picture of a zoo and cut and paste pictures of animals

from a magazine that are zoo animals.

Procedure: Announce in large group that children will be coloring, cutting and pasting zoo animal
pictures. In small groups of five children will: Step1: color the background picture of the zoo. Step2: children will cut pictures of zoo animals from magazines.Step3: children will paste them onto background zoo picture.

Advanced Preparation: Have background zoo sheets copied and magazine ready for activity.

List Materials: Magazines, colors, scissors, and glue sticks.

Developmental Benefits:

Creative, Language, Social, Emotional, Cognitive, and Physical.

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Future Plans: Children will dictate a story on the book Biggest, Strongest, Fastest.

Student Learning Outcomes: Creative, children are creative when cutting and looking for the
animals they want to paste in their collage; Language, children acquire new vocabulary of animal names as they interact with each other and teacher; Social, children learn to interact with each other and teacher in socially accepted ways; Emotional, children learn self-regulation skills with activity; Cognitive, children learn to connect past experiences to activities in order to reinforce concepts ;Physical children exercise both gross and fine motor skills for later reading and writing readiness.

Transition Plan:

Song finger play The Elephant for large group activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ My Story Focused Domain __________ Language

Goal:

Help children understand that print has meaning.

Objective: A: Children will listen to the story of Biggest, Strongest, and Fastest. B: collect foam pictures of zoo animals and paste them to a writing sheet. C: Children will then dictate the story of Biggest, Strongest, and Fastest.

Procedure : After reading the story Biggest, Strongest ,Fastest in large group and Activity
announced , children in small groups of five will: Step1: In a writing sheet , they will paste desired zoo animal foam pictures. Step2: children will then dictate what they want to write in their story that reflects on the story told.

Advanced Preparation: Have sufficient zoo animal foam pictures for the story, writing sheets glue checked for dryness and pencils sharpened.

List Materials: Writing sheets, foam zoo animal pictures, glue sticks, and pencils.

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Cognitive, Creative, Physical, and Social.

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Future Plans: Making a dramatic play for the story.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, children build emerging readiness skills needed for
academic reading and writing; Cognitive, children reflect on reading lesson in order to carry out this activity; Creative, children learn innovating ways of using writing materials; Physical, children exercise both gross and fine motor skills; Social, children learn to act in appropriate ways with other children and teacher.

Transition Plan:

Poem The Kangaroo to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Stuffy zooannies Focused Domain __________ Creative

Goal:

To expand childrens imagination and pretend play.

Objective: Children will pretend play with the stuffed zoo animals.

Procedure : After large group presentation , children will be introduced to the new application of
stuffed animals at the dramatic play area. Children will then play at the area.

Advanced Preparation: Make sure to have various stuffed animals and plenty for all children.

List Materials: Stuffed snakes, elephants, lions, zebras, bears, dolphins, and giraffes.

Developmental Benefits:

Creative, language, social, emotional, cognitive, and physical.

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Future Plans: Provide costumes and boxes that children could design as cages where zoo animals
are kept.

Student Learning Outcomes: Creative, children use their imagination to understand zoo
animals and materials discussed in class; Language, children are able to communicate with one another and learn new vocabulary as they interact with each other; Social, children get to problem solve and work with each other with the help of the teacher as facilitator; Emotional, children benefit from play to even work out fears that may arise and practice to be brave, to overcome an obstacle; Cognitive, children are reinforcing learned materials with hands on activities.

Transition Plan: of the week.

Finger play Elephant Action Play to transition to large group calendar and days

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Zoo Animal Cages Focused Domain __________ Creative

Goal: Expand childrens imagination with items that relate to the zoo animal theme.

Objective: 1: children will paint two big boxes with the cage design on them.
2: Children will then play with the cages and pretend play with them.

Procedure : After announcing in large group that children will be painting zoo cages, in groups of
three children will : Step1: Children will put on smocks and then paint the two large boxes of the cage design. After painting children will then clean brushes in the cups of water. Step2: After the project is done and has been dry for at least one day, children will then play with the finished project and pretend to be zoo animals.

Advanced Preparation: Draw the design of the cage on the two boxes and have the other parts of
the boxes cut out by teacher or assistant. The boxes should not be cut by children.

List Materials: Boxes, paint, brushes, smocks, cups of water, and scissors.

Developmental Benefits:

Creative, Language, Physical, Emotional, Cognitive and Social.

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Future Plans: Add costumes of zoo animals to the dramatic play area.

Student Learning Outcomes: Creative, children expand their imagination and pretend play with
the cages; Language ,children learn new thematic vocabulary to apply to their language skills; Physical ,children exercise both fine and gross motor skills; Emotional ,children learn self-soothing skills for emotion regulation, when they are painting ; Cognitive, children connect previous learned concepts related to zoo animals theme ;Social ,children learn to work with each other in acceptable ways with teacher guidance.

Transition Plan:
Song Were Going To The Zoo to transition to physical exercises.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Zoo Animal Costumes Focused Domain __________ Creative

Goal:

Help children expand their imagination through costumes and recognize themselves as creators of stories.

Objective:

Children will play with the various zoo animal costumes such as the bear, lion, dolphin, giraffe, zebra, and penguin.

Procedure:

After introducing the new costumes to children in large group, children will be able to play with them in free time.

Advanced Preparation: Have enough costumes for children to play with. Two for every zoo
animal.

List Materials: Two costumes for each animal.

Developmental Benefits:

Creative, Cognitive, Social, Emotional, Language and Physical.

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Future Plans: Children will play out a story with the costumes.

Student Learning Outcomes: Creative, children expend their imagination through the various
zoo animals in the dramatic play area ;Cognitive, children make connections to activities from previous lessons; Social, children play with each other and learn problem solving skills with teacher as a guide; Emotional, children learn to live in the moment and learn self-regulation skills; Language, children reinforce vocabulary of animals from previous concepts and learn new vocabulary from one another ;Physical, children exercise gross motor skills.

Transition Plan: Song At The Zoo to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Matching Letters to Animal Faces Focused Domain __________ Language

Goal:

Help children with alphabet knowledge through animal figures.

Objective:

Children will color and then match the beginning letters to the animal faces in a sheet of paper that has the elephant, dolphin, penguin, zebra, snake, and bear.

Procedure:

After announcing in large group about the activity, In small groups of four, children will: Step1: children will color the animal pictures.Step2: children will draw a line from the beginning letter of the animal to the animal face.

Advanced Preparation: Have sheets of paper for the activity ready, and check crayons for
replacement if necessary.

List Materials: Copies of sheets for the activity, colors, and pencils.

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Creative, Cognitive, Physical, and Social.

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Future Plans: Children will identify names of the animals with their picture.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, children acquire alphabet

letter concepts for emerging writing skills; Cognitive , children assimilate that print conveys meaning; Creative, children use creativity to problem solve when working with materials; Physical, children exercise fine motor skills and hand and eye coordination; Social, children learn to work with one another with teacher as a facilitator.

Transition Plan:

Song Sally the Camel to transition to large group physical exercises.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Zoo animals puzzle Focused Domain __________ Physical

Goal:

Help children control small muscles in hands.

Objective:

Children will put puzzle pieces in board cuts.

Procedure:

After announcement in large group of the new activity at the manipulative area, at free choice children will pick what they want to play with. Only three puzzles are available therefore only one child per puzzle. Step1 child will take puzzle apart. Step2: The child will then put it back together in designated board cut.

Advanced Preparation: Inform children at free choice that only three are available and only one
may play at a time furthermore, share taking will take place.

List Materials: Three zoo animal puzzles.

Developmental Benefits:

Physical, Cognitive, Social, Emotional, Creative, and Language.

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Future Plans: Place zoo animal manipulatives.

Student Learning Outcomes: Physical, children exercise small muscles in hand along with
hand- eye coordination ;Cognitive, Children make connections to the theme concepts of previous activities from class work ;Social, Children learn to work with each other in appropriate ways with teacher guidance ;Emotional ,children learn to control emotions with the patience the activity requires ;Creative, children learn to problem solve, to put puzzle pieces in place; Language, children learn new vocabulary and reinforce it through experiences with activities.

Transition Plan:

Song The Animals At The Zoo to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ How many am I? Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal:

Help children understand number concepts.

Objective:

Children will connect numbers to number figures of zoo animal pictures.

Procedure: After announcing in large group of activity, in groups of two children will: Step1:
children will look at the number figures and count them Step2: Children will then draw a line to connect the number to the corresponding number figures of the various animals.

Advanced Preparation: Have enough copies of the activities for the children.

List Materials: Copy sheets of the numbers and number figures of various animals, and pencils.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, Physical ,Social ,Emotional ,and Language

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Future Plans: Simplify: Structure more one to one correspondence. Challenge: Add higher numbers to next activity.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, children learn number concepts and counting figures;
Physical, children exercise fine motor skills along with hand-eye coordination ;Social ,children learn to work as a small group and interact with teacher; Emotional, children learn emotion regulation through concentration of activity ;Language, children learn math words and apply them to their speech;

Transition Plan:

Song The Brown Kangaroo to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Zoo Animal Fun Focused Domain __________ Physical

Goal:

Help children exercise fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.

Objective: Children will play with manipulatives of the elephant, zebra, monkey, and giraffe.

Procedure: After announcing in large group of the activity they will play, children in groups of no
more than three will: Step1: play with the various animal manipulatives.

Advanced Preparation: Have four packets of the animal manipulatives, the elephant, giraffe,
zebra, and monkey.

List Materials: Four packets of the animal manipulatives, the elephant, giraffe, monkey and the
zebra.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, Social, Physical, Language, Emotional and Creative.

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Future Plans: Make an activity with animal sounds.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Physical, children exercise both fine and hand-eye coordination; Language, children learn vocabulary such as animal names ;Social ,children learn to interact with one another and teacher ;Cognitive, children make mental processes with previous learned concepts of previous activities with zoo animals; Creative, children learn to use creativity when they pretend play with manipulatives.

Transition Plan:

Poem, Zoo Fun to transition to large group physical activities.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Who Am I and how do I Sound? Focused Domain __________ Language

Goal:

Help children distinguish sounds and read visual pictures.

Objective:

Children will participate with teacher in discriminating sounds and pictures of animals.

Procedure: In large group teacher will step1: Ask children with flash cards what animal do they see
on the flash card Step: 2 Teacher will ask what sound does the animals make?

Advanced Preparation: Have flash cards available for the large group discussion.

List Materials: Flash cards.

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Social, and Cognitive.

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Future Plans: Have a story book dramatization.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, Children learn to read pictures and discriminate sounds
of animals; Cognitive, Children learn to classify objects and interpretations of representational objects; Social, children learn social skills when they interact as a group.

Transition Plan:

Poem Big Gray Elephant to transition outside.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ L For Lion Focused Domain __________ Language

Goal: Introduce children to alphabet letters.

Objective:

Children will trace the letter L and color the lion picture in the sheet.

Procedure : After

announcing in large group of the activity, children in small groups of three will : Step1:Trace the letter L Step2: Children will then color the picture of the lion.

Advanced Preparation: Have enough copies of the activity sheets.

List Materials: Copy sheets, colors, and pencils.

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Creative, Social, Emotional, Physical and Cognitive.

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Future Plans: Children will make zoo animal collages.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, Children learn alphabet letters through animals;
Creative, children use their creativity when coloring by aesthetic preference; Social, children learn prosocial rules with teacher guidance; Emotional, children learn to calm themselves and patience through activity; Physical, children exercise both fine motor and hand-eye coordination through activity for future academic success; Cognitive, children make mental processes by assimilating and accommodating previous learned concepts.

Transition Plan:
Poem Ten Little Penguins to transition to large group physical activities

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Story Dictation Into The A, B, Sea Focused Domain __________ Language

Goal:

Comprehends meaning from books and understands that print has meaning.

Objective:

Children will dictate the story book Into The A, B, Sea with their own interpretation of the story and paste foam pictures of sea animals to the writing paper.

Procedure: After reading the story book Into The A, B, Sea, in groups of four children will: Step1:
children will paste the foam pictures of various sea animals into the writing paper.Step2: children will then dictate to teacher what they liked about the story.

Advanced Preparation: Have plenty of the various sea foam animals for the story dictation.

List Materials: Foam pictures of sea animals, writing paper, glue sticks, and pencils.

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Creative, Emotional, Physical, Cognitive, and Social.

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Future Plans: Dramatization of the story.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, children develop understanding of print meaning

along with listening attention span skills; Creative, children use their own perception which there is no right or wrong way of looking at things ;Emotional, children learn self-regulation skills when doing activity with the patience it requires; Physical, children exercise both fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination; Cognitive, children make mental processes by applying learned materials into new experience; Social, children learn to work with other children in a group with the teacher as a guide.

Transition Plan:

Poem Zoo Fun to transition to large group for creative movement.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Land Animals Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal:

Help children apply knowledge to new experiences.

Objective:

Children will play with the sand along with the different land zoo animals.

Procedure: After announcing in large group of new sand activity at the sand/water table. Children in
small groups of three will: Step1 Play with the sand and the different kinds of land animals which are the lion, elephant, giraffe, zebra, monkey, and bear.

Advanced Preparation: Have the different kinds of zoo animals ready for the sand activity.

List Materials: The various different land zoo animals, and sand on the sand/water table.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, Creative, Language, Social, Emotional and Physical.

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Future Plans: Make another sensory play activity where there is water and children can connect the concept of aquatic animals.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, children connect the previous activity about animal
habitats which includes the land animals and relate to the concept learned; Creative, children extend their imagination and use imaginative play with manipulatives; Language, children learn new vocabulary like land animals and apply it to their speech, Social, children learn to work with each other; Emotional, Children learn self-regulation skills which are relaxation and self-soothing techniques; Physical, children exercise fine and gross motor skills.

Transition Plan:
Song Walking In The Jungle to transition to large group creative movement.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Who Am I? Focused Domain __________ Language

Goal:

Help children visualize and discriminate sounds.

Objective:

Children in large group will guess what zoo animal the volunteer child is acting out by making the animal sound that was picked out from an animal prop box.

Procedure:

In large group time children will be introduced to the game, individual volunteering children will go in front of the group and do the following: Step1: child called will go in front of the group and pick an animal prop from box; Step2: Child will not let the group know of the animal picked; Step3, child will make the sound of the animal picked from the box and the group will guess what animal it is.

Advanced Preparation: Have the animal props of the lion, seal, monkey, wolf, snake, and
elephant, ready for the activity.

List Materials: The various zoo animal props.

Developmental Benefits:

Language, Cognitive, Emotional, Social, Physical and Creative.

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Future Plans: Have a dramatic story play of the animal props.

Student Learning Outcomes: Language, Children learn to discriminate sounds of animals and
learn to visualize mental pictures when describing sounds; Cognitive, children can interpret representations; Emotional, Children learn to be patient during activity; Social, Children learn to work with each other; Physical, children exercise large motor skills along with fine motor; Creative, children learn to use creativity to enact the animal role.

Transition Plan:

Song At The Zoo to transition to free play.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Field Trip (Brookfield Zoo) Focused Domain __________ Cognitive

Goal: Introduce children to the different zoo animals.

Objective:

Children will visit the Brookfield Zoo and get to know the different zoo animals explored in class. They will apply previous lessons to concrete representations of the animals.

Procedure: Children will be announce in large group prior to trip

that they are going to visit the zoo to look and explore the different zoo animals that were introduced in class the past month.

Advanced Preparation: Have the arrangements to the zoo already processed, the chaperones
identified and name tags made for the trip.

List Materials: Name tags, Chaperones, maps highlighted with locations to explore, busses, flyers,
permission slips, and arrangements at the zoo.

Developmental Benefits:

Cognitive, Language, Emotional, Creative, Physical, and Social.

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Future Plans: Children can make drawings about what they learned at the zoo.

Student Learning Outcomes: Cognitive, Children connect previous activities with new
experiences and assimilate and accommodate ;Language ,children learn new vocabulary at the zoo site and teacher can discuss vocabulary; Emotional, exploring and looking at sites has a soothing affect further, enhancing childrens self-awareness; Creative, children explore and appreciate the beauty of nature; Physical, children exercise gross motor skills; Social, children learn to socialize with other children and adults.

Transition Plan:

When children arrive at school, the class will sing Were Going To The Zoo to transition from school to the home.

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Child Development 258: Principles and Practices in Preschool Education

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson_______ Zebra and Giraffe Sandwich Shapes Focused Domain __________ Physical

Goal:

Introduce children to healthy snacks through zoo animal shapes

Objective:
animal shapes.

Children will prepare peanut butter and banana sandwiches which will be cut into zoo

Procedure: After introducing children in large group to the cooking activity, in small groups of three
children will: Step1: Each child will get two slices of bread and spread peanut butter on both slices; Step2: children will apply already cut pieces of bananas onto sandwich and put the two pieces together; Step3: children will then cut out shapes of the giraffe and zebra with the cookie cutter.

Advanced Preparation: Cut banana pieces prior to activity, plates and have shapes available.

List Materials: Cookie shapes, peanut butter, bananas, plastic knifes, plates and bread.

Developmental Benefits:

Physical, Cognitive, Language, Social, and Emotional

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Future Plans: Simplify: Children will only spread peanut butter onto two slices of bread. Challenge: Children will try cutting bananas with plastic knives to complete the whole task of
activity.

Student Learning Outcomes: Physical, children exercise fine motor skills by spreading peanut
butter and cutting shapes with cookie cutters; Cognitive, children learn cause and effect with materials; Language, children interact with one another and teacher and learn new vocabulary; Social, children learn to work with one another and teacher; Emotional, Children learn patience and are focused in the materials that promote self-soothing skills.

Transition Plan:

Poem Zoo Fun to transition to large group creative movement.

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