Preschool Lesson Plans: Spring

PRESCHOOL LESSON PLANS: SPRING
Preschool Lesson Plans SPRING is week 31 of the Teach for Mastery Preschool Curriculum. Lesson plans are done in a weekly format that can be posted in the classroom, as well as, detailed activity plans which include how to prepare the activity.

INCLUDED IN PRESCHOOL LESSON PLANS SPRING:
- 1 book recommendation (You read the same book all week to allow children to deeply process and connect with the book. This is why children love to read a book over and over. This also allows you to discuss different aspects of the book at different times: characters, setting, plot, summary, retelling, sequencing)

- 5 detailed activity plans with printables (*if needed)
1. Spring Base Tens*

2. Spring Letter Tracing*
3. Color Changing Flowers Experiment*

4. Spring Letter Sound Sort*
5. Spring Graphing*

- Group Time Routine (printables for Group Time are not included)

- 5 center play ideas with printables (*if needed)
1. Spring Discovery Bin
2. Spring ABC Match*

3. Spring Building Shapes*

4. Spring Measuring Cards*
5. Caterpillar Name Puzzles*

Teach for Mastery Preschool Curriculum is based on the TN-ELDS. The TN-ELDS compare to most state preschool standards. Therefore, these lesson plans will meet your preschool standards easily. The academic focus for Spring is review.

STANDARDS COVERED IN PRESCHOOL LESSON PLANS SPRING:

• PK.CC.A.1 Count forward from 1 to 30.
• PK.CC.A.4 Begin to name numerals 0-10. 
• PK.CC.B.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
• a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, using one-to-one correspondence.
• b. Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted.
• PK.CC.B.5 Understand that a number represents a corresponding quantity.
• b. Given a number from 1-10, count out that many objects.
• PK.ETS1.01a. Use senses to gather, explore, and interpret information.
• b. With modeling, prompting, and support, record and organize data using graphs, charts, science journals, etc., to communicate conclusions regarding experiments and explorations.
• c. Make predictions based on observations and prior explorations.
• PK.FL.PWR.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text. a. Begin to demonstrate knowledge of one-to-one letter sound correspondence by producing the most frequent sound for familiar consonants.
• PK.FL.WC.4 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when encoding words. a. Begin to recognize the difference between upper and lowercase letters.
• PK.FL.PC.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. d. Recognize familiar uppercase letters and some of the most common lowercase letters.