LEARNING ACTIVITY PLAN

Name: Becky Snow___________

Site: Hertle Head Start____________

Description of Activity:
Read From Head to Toe by Eric Carle

Type of Activity: Reading story with actions

Age group: 3
Number in group: 15

Opening Question/Invitation/Prop/Finger Play:

Concepts & Skills:

Start with a focus activity, like follow the

leader that ends with the children sitting with
hands in their laps.

Match the action with the animal that did the

action in the book.
Questions to ask:
What animal did this (show action)?

Procedure:

Materials Needed:

Read the story and have the children act out

the actions in the book.

Oversized copy of book and easel to hold the

book.

After the story name an animal and see if the

kids can do the matching action.
Another way to do this would be to call up a
child to make an action that was in the book and
have the other children say what animal it was
that made the action in the story.

Performance Standards:

Potential Guidance Techniques Needed:

Developmental Domain :
Cognition and General Knowledge

Make sure the kids arent too close to the book,

I always end up with all the kids crammed
around me. The kids in the back then become
disengaged and find other means to entertain
themselves.

Performance Standard:
A.EL.1 Uses multisensory abilities to process

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information.
Developmental Domain: Language and
Development
Performance Standard:
A.EL.1 Derives meaning through listening to
communications of others and sounds in the
environment.
A.EL.2 Listens and responds to communications
with others.
WITC Instructor Use Only:
/2 Activity Plan is developmentally appropriate
/2 Activity Plan is comprehensive
/1 Professional presentation/spelling & grammar is correct