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*** Funky Recycled Flowers***

4/30/2020

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What is our theme? 
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 


What is the lesson (overall purpose)?  
Can you make a flower with recycled materials? 


MA Guidelines/Standards:
  • investigate how various media, surfaces, tools, and techniques can be used to produce different visual effects.
  • experiment with a single material/medium on multiple surfaces, try many materials on the same surface to discover the different ways materials can be used to produce a variety of effects, the advantages or disadvantages of each for specific purposes, and revisit materials to build on past experiences. 
  • experiment with combining various materials.
  • use found materials to create collages (e.g., feathers, buttons, fabric, recycled materials). Pg. 161


Learning Outcomes:
The educator can emphasize valuing process over product by
  • creating open-ended opportunities for the creation of art that encourage originality over conformity
  • providing children with appropriate space, materials and sufficient time to experiment with their arts projects (e.g., extended time for practice, opportunities to perform)
  • making accommodations for children’s individual abilities and needs
  • recognizing that not all young children want to, or are ready to, articulate some ideas



Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjW2agk7nOg Ms. Julia reading a book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OasbYWF4_S8 Reduce Reuse Recycle Clip 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1ZKVPO-fM Ms. Amanda reading a book 


Materials:
Toilet paper roll & Egg carton Flowers 
  • Toilet paper roll (or paper towel roll) 
  • Egg carton 
  • Scissors 
  • Coloring Tools 
  • Pipe Cleaners (or you could collect sticks from outside) 

Cupcake Liner Flowers 
  • Empty water bottle and/or cup 
  • Pipe Cleaners (or you could collect sticks from outside) 
  • Scissors 
  • Coloring Tools 
  • Cupcake liners


Activity (Procedure):
Toilet paper roll & Egg carton Flowers 
  1. Gather all materials 
  2. Color the toilet paper roll, and then egg cartons
  3. Cut the egg cartons so you have each section separated (this will act as the flower petals) 
  4. With adult supervision poke a hole in the flat part of the egg carton so you can stick your pipe cleaner through it.
  5. take your pipe cleaner/ stick and that will act as the stem for the flower. Poke one end of the pipe cleaner into the hole you made in the egg carton.
  6. Place flowers in toilet paper roll (vase) 

Cupcake Liner Flowers 
  1. Gather all materials
  2. Color empty water bottle and cupcake liners
  3. Take pipe cleaner and poke it in the flat side of the cupcake liner (pipe cleaner will act as flower stem)
  4. Place flowers in the colored water bottle vase!


Activity Wrap Up:
Reduce, reuse, Recycle, what can you make? 


How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Creating visual art is an ancient, and probably universal, practice. Young children start illustrating and decorating as toddlers, and are usually eager to work on and study art throughout their school years, if not through adulthood. With skilled guidance, making and studying art can help children cultivate not only art techniques and creative expression, but also thinking skills such as questioning, observing and describing, comparing and connecting, and exploring complexity. pg. 160 



How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
See materials listed above.


Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
See materials listed above.

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***Let's Make A Flower Stem With Your Name***

4/28/2020

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What is our theme? 
Alphabet - Recognizing the letters in your name


What is the lesson (overall purpose)?  
  • recognize and/or name some uppercase and lowercase letters (especially in their own names).
  • begin to notice some letter-sound connections.


MA Guidelines/Standards:
F.PK.1: With guidance and support, demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed and written text: books, words, letters, and the alphabet.

a. Handle books respectfully and appropriately, holding them right-side-up and turning pages one at a time from front to back.

b. (Begins in kindergarten or when the individual child is ready.)

c. (Begins in kindergarten or when the individual child is ready.)

d. Recognize and name some uppercase letters of the alphabet and the lowercase letters in one’s own name.


Learning Outcomes:
  • provide opportunities that involve linking an initial sound with an object or a printed letter or word in the room (e.g., “I spy something that begins with mmmmm”).

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBDTPHZO-xo Book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKakY4OQthA ABC Song 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rRm7LMxJ2M Book


Materials
  • Paper 
  • Scissors
  • Coloring Tools 
  • Glue and/or tape 


Activity (Procedure):
  1. Gather materials 
  2. With adult assistance, have your child cut out the number of squares that are in their name. example; Julia would be 5 squares to cut out
  3. Write 1 letter on each square, continue doing that for your entire name. 
  4. Organize the square letters in the correct order forming a vertical rectangle. 
  5. Once you have organized your name, you can glue/tape it to the paper!
  6. When your vertical flower stem  name is complete, you can color and decorate a top to the flower!

Activity Wrap Up:
  • provide a wide selection of books and board books with illustrations and simple accompanying words for children to explore.

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Systematic and explicit instruction should include: teacher modeling, practice, and application to authentic reading and writing experiences. Techniques to teach sound-spelling correspondence for decoding unfamiliar words and recognizing some words by sight might include:
  • identifying individual letters and matching them with corresponding sounds;
  • pronouncing sounds commonly associated with corresponding letters:
  • blending onset-rimes to read one-syllable words (e.g., /c-at/, /b-at/, h-at/); and
  • blending letter sounds to decode and read one-syllable words.

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
Simply practice writing the letters of your name. You could also pick two letters a day and practice writing those! 

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Start off by writing your child's name, then see what letters they can recognize. Once they recognize the letters, practice writing them. Once they have accomplished it, then you can go ahead and have them write the letters on their name on a square to make a flower stem! 

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How Many Petals Does Your FLower Have?

4/28/2020

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What is our theme? 
Counting Flower Petals 

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?  
Counting 

MA Guidelines/Standards:
PK.CC.3. Understand the relationships between numerals and quantities up to ten.
PK.CC.2. Recognize and name written numerals 0–10.

Learning Outcomes:
  • play games and listen to stories and poems that contain numbers and counting sequences. (5 Little Pumpkins, 10 Apples Up on Top)
  • in partners, explore books that include numerals (e.g., I Spy Numbers by Marzollo), discuss and share their observations.
  • demonstrate the process of how to write numerals 0-9.


Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E6bNa_X2lI Ms. Julia reading a book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ra5JNj820&t=25s Book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By2hmo323xM  - Counting Clip 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cAGoxFqSFQ - Counting Clip


Materials:
  • Paper
  • Scissors 
  • Glue and/or tape 
  • Coloring Tools, crayon, marker, etc. 

Activity (Procedure):
  1. Gather all materials 
  2. Cut out multiple petal shape pieces 
  3. Write a number on the paper 
  4. Depending on the number you wrote, place the amount of petals surrounding the number. Example; if you wrote down the number 5, then you would put 5 petals around that number with 5 being the center of the petals. 

Activity Wrap Up:
What number can you count to? What numbers can you recognize? 


How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
  • model the use of number words and numerals including zero, in everyday situations.
  • read books, poems, and chants with numerals and number concepts.
  • display and point out numerals in the environment (e.g., group size limits, labels on materials, projects, or activity areas, children’s bus numbers).


How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
This activity could be done outside too! If it is nice out, you could write the number 5 in the dirt/sand, then go gather leaves in the yard, and place 5 leaves around the number 5!


Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Start off with minimal petals, then gradually move to 20!

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*** Snippet FLowers ***

4/27/2020

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What is our theme?
Flower Shapes

What is the lesson (overall purpose)? 
Use fine motor skills to cut paper, and identify shapes to create a flower with snippet shapes!

MA Guidelines/Standards:
PK.G.2. Identify various two-dimensional shapes using appropriate language.

Learning Outcomes:
The Massachusetts pre-k standards apply to children who are at the end of the preschool age group, meaning older four- and younger five-year olds. In preschool or pre-kindergarten, activity time should focus on two critical areas: 
(1) developing an understanding of whole numbers to 10, including concepts of one-to-one correspondence, counting, cardinality (the number of items in a set), and comparison; and 
(2) recognizing two-dimensional shapes, describing spatial relationships, and sorting and classifying objects by one or more attributes. Relatively more learning time should be devoted to developing children’s sense of number as quantity than to other mathematics topics. pg. 84

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi847DQKpWc&t=6s - Ms. Julia reading Kindness Snippet Jar 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-VHFMhLR6k Book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZn3d3rmufc Book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfqgRtvaYQ Shape Song


Materials:
  • Scissors
  • Paper
  • Glue and/or tape

Activity (Procedure):
  1. Gather all materials
  2. With adult supervision use the scissors to cut out shapes! (The shapes can be a random assortment, triangles, circles, ovals, rectangles, etc.)
  3. Using the glue or tape, place your shape pieces on a larger piece of paper to create your very own flower!

Activity Wrap Up:
To wrap up this activity, they children can play a shape game and ask you what shape that is, and they will tell you if it is correct or not! A little flower shape guessing game.

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
  • find examples of basic shapes in the environment (e.g., go on a “shape walk” indoors or outdoors to find examples of circles, squares, triangles, rectangles in buildings, in the classroom, in nature, etc.). 
  • identify basic shapes in pictures, magazines, or picture books (e.g., I Spy books).
  • feel and name parquetry blocks or pattern blocks, then try to identify them without looking – by naming or pointing to a block that matches.
  • play shape challenge games such as placing basic shapes on the floor and prompting children’s movement (e.g., “Stand in the square”).

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
If you do not have scissors, you could draw different shapes to create a flower on paper!


Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Observe the shape of a flower first, then have the child tell you what shape they think the stem is, then they could recreate that shape.

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*** Cutting Paper Bird Eggs ***

4/24/2020

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What is our theme? Fine Motor skills - cutting with scissors

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?  
Using your fine motor skills

MA Guidelines/Standards:
Physical Activities and Fitness pg.139
This section will be updated to reflect the Comprehensive Health Curriculum Framework currently undergoing revision
  • Show cutting skills including unstructured snipping (e.g., snipping pieces of plastic straws or strips of paper); cutting within a “track,” and cutting on a line and stopping at a marked point.
Learning Outcomes:
Fine Motor Skills 


Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvziIgtXXFM - Book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhY5nlxptqM- Robin eggs hatching 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiM1lPrlElY - Book 


Materials:
  • Paper
  • Scissors
  • pen and/or marker 


Activity (Procedure):
  1. Gather materials 
  2. With adult supervision have the child cut out and oval (egg shape). Adults, you can draw the oval shape for your child and then have your child cut on those lines. 
  3. Have your child, or you draw wiggly lines, zig-zag lines, straight lines, etc. through the middle of the egg. 
  4. With adult supervision have your child cut on those lines you created through the middle of the egg. 
  5. When done, you can create a puzzle match game with the egg pieces you cut! 


Activity Wrap Up:
Working towards fine motor skills to eventually work on inde

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Show cutting skills including unstructured snipping (e.g., snipping pieces of plastic straws or strips of paper); cutting within a “track,” and cutting on a line and stopping at a marked point.pg. 139 


How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
See materials and procedure above.


Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
See materials and procedure above.

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*** Homemade Bird Feeder***

4/23/2020

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What is our theme? What do birds eat? 

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?  
To discover, learn, and compare what birds eat to what humans eat. 

MA Guidelines/Standards:
Physical Activities and Fitness pg.139
This section will be updated to reflect the Comprehensive Health Curriculum Framework currently undergoing revision
  • Show cutting skills including unstructured snipping (e.g., snipping pieces of plastic straws or strips of paper); cutting within a “track,” and cutting on a line and stopping at a marked point.
Comprehensive Health pg. 140 
This section will be updated to reflect the Comprehensive Health Curriculum Framework currently undergoing revision
  • talk about young animals and humans in age-appropriate terms (e.g., babies, puppies, kittens, etc.)

Learning Outcomes:
To discuss healthy choices for humans, and you can compare those choices to what birds can eat. 


Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKIyeeCBL-w - DIY Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbEfQXVAFCE - DIY Cheerio Bird Feeder 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSHFqFokFl4 - DIY Pine Cone Bird Feeder 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7mZ06H9V-4 - Egg Carton Bird Feeder 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTNLSAddebM - Book 

Materials: 
**You can substitute bird seed for fruit, crushed mixed nuts, bland or fruit cereal. *** See videos for DIY visual steps***
  1. Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeder:
  • Toilet paper roll or paper towel roll
  • Peanut Butter, WOW butter, or almond butter etc. 
  • Bird seed 
  • Plate 
  • String 
  • Scissors 
  1. Cheerio Bird Feeder:
  • String 
  • Scissors 
  • Cheerios 
  1. Pine Cone Bird Feeder:
  • Collect pine cones on a walk, or in your backyard
  • Utensil 
  • Peanut Butter, WOW butter, or almond etc. 
  • String
  • Scissors
  • Seed
  1. Egg Carton Bird Feeder: 
  • Recycled egg carton (6 or 12-whatever you have!) 
  • String
  • Scissors
  • Seed

Activity (Procedure):
  • Toilet Paper Roll Bird Feeder:
  1. Collect all materials
  2. Put seed on plate
  3. Use utensil (with adult supervision) and spread Peanut butter all over toilet paper roll 
  4. Roll toilet paper roll in seed on the plate 
  5. Put string through toilet paper roll, tie knot to secure.  
  6. Hang on the tree and watch the birds enjoy! 
  • Cheerio Bird Feeder:
  1. Collect materials 
  2. Grab a hand full of cheerios 
  3. Grab string & tie a knot at one end of the string 
  4. Use your fine motor skills to place cheerios on string until full
  5. Tie knot at the end
  6. Hang outside and watch the birds enjoy!
  • Pine Cone Bird Feeder:
  1. Go on a pine cone hunt in your yard, or in a walk around your neighborhood 
  2. Put seed on plate
  3. Use utensil (with adult supervision) and spread Peanut butter all over pine cone 
  4. Roll pine cone in seed on the plate 
  5. Put string around pine cone, tie knot to secure.  
  6. Hang on the tree and watch the birds enjoy!
  • Egg Carton Bird Feeder: 
  1. Collect materials 
  2. Cut 2 holes at both ends, or in the middle in a recycled egg carton to make it level when hanging from a tree. 
  3. Pull string through holes, then tie a knot to secure it. 
  4. Put seed in egg holes
  5. Hang on the tree and watch the birds enjoy! 

Activity Wrap Up:
You can see what food the bird likes better, peanut butter, seeds, berries, it will be fun to observe the birds.


How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Learning about healthy choices, and that it's kind to help out the birds if you can. Also, comparing what the birds are able to eat vs. what humans can eat. 


How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
See materials and procedure above.


Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
See materials and procedure above.

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can you build a bird nest?

4/22/2020

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What is our theme? Creating a homemade bird nest!

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?  
To create a home for birds, and compare it to the home we live in.

MA Guidelines/Standards:
PreK-ESS2-1 (MA). Raise questions and engage in discussions about how different types of local environments (including water) provide homes for different kinds of living things.

Learning Outcomes:
  • visit local outdoor areas, ask questions about the environment (e.g., Why is it wet? What lives there?).
  • observe, explore and compare the habitats of humans, dogs, cats, squirrels, and insects. Categorize pictures or models of animals by their habitats.
  • build homes and other structures out of blocks and other materials (for humans, birds, animals) and provide a reason for why each is an appropriate structure for what lives in it. 

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwi0tBRRcQ - Comparing animal homes 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7MiIiihuEo - Book 

Materials
  • Lint from your dryer - birds love lint, its knows to keep the nest warm 
  • Gather inside and outside materials: 
    • Lint
    • String 
    • Moss 
    • Leaves
    • Grass
    • Mud 
    • Dirt
    • Cotton balls 
    • Play-doh 


Activity (Procedure):
  1. Create a ball like shape with play-doh or mud
  2. Form it into a bowl (nest shape) 
  3. Start sticking materials (leaves, grass, moss, etc.  in/around nest shape

Activity Wrap Up:
To show and create a home for birds that is different from our homes. 

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Ask questions about various habitats (e.g., why does an animal live in one environment rather than somewhere else? How can an animal survive there? What does the environment provide for the animal? What would happen to the animal if it were moved to a different environment?). Pg. 108

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
See materials and procedure above. 




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bird binoculars!

4/21/2020

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What is our theme? Observing Birds 

What is the lesson (overall purpose)? 
Observe, discuss, and document (draw, tally, chart, write, cut out pictures, photograph) living creatures in their natural environment (e.g., ants, spiders, insects, worms, frogs, birds). Pg. 115

MA Guidelines/Standards:
PreK-LS1-2 (MA)
Explain that most animals have five senses they use to gather information about the world around them.
Pre-K-LS1-1 (MA). Compare, using descriptions and drawings, the external body parts of animals (including humans) and plants and explain functions of some of the observable body parts. 

Clarification Statement: Examples can include comparison of humans having two legs and horses four, but both use legs to move. 

Learning Outcomes:
To be able to observe the movement/actions of birds. You can compare them to human actions. 

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM-oM8fPduo - DIY Video 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V7SIUbGeUA&t=4s - Book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNznlv_BNPY - Book 

Materials
  • 2 recycles toilet paper rolls OR 1 paper towel roll cut in half 
  • Scissors 
  • String and/or, old shoe lace, ribbon, yarn
  • Glue, tape, or stapler to stick them together, and stick string on. 
  • Stickers, markers, anything to decorate them with


Activity (Procedure):
  1. Glue/tape/staple 2 rolls together 
  2. Glue/tape/staple string to inside of the rolls to hang around neck like a necklace when you are not using them
  3.  Decorate how you would like! 
  4. Search for birds through a window in your home, or go on a “bird hunt” and see what you can find!


Activity Wrap Up:
Discuss and act out behaviors or movements of plants, humans, animals, and insects (e.g., the way birds or squirrel eats seeds; how snakes slither, rabbits hop, birds fly). Pg. 115


How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Pre-K: The World Around Me pg. 105 
Pre-K children focus on experiencing and making observations of the world around them. They are beginning to learn about their own environment as they observe plants and animals, the moon and the sun, and the daily weather. They experience their world through their senses and body parts and begin to recognize that animals also use their senses and body parts to meet their basic needs. They investigate pitch and volume, shadow and light, liquids and solids, and how things move. They sort materials by simple observable properties such as texture and color. They share their understanding of these concepts through discussion as they develop their language and quantitative skills. Pre-K children build awareness of the wide variety of natural phenomena and processes in the world around them.

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
See materials and procedure above. 



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"B" is for birds...

4/20/2020

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*** B is for Birds ***

What is our theme? The Letter B 

What is the lesson (overall purpose)?  
To Write the Letter B and Identify the B sound.

MA Guidelines/Standards:
RL.PK.5. Show awareness of the rhythmic structure of a poem or song by clapping or movement. Example; sing the ABC song and clap when you sing the letter B
RI.PK.4. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in an informational text read aloud. Example; point out the letter B words so the child can see, and listen for that B word next time it pops up in the story

Learning Outcomes:
To be able to recognize the letter  by seeing it, hearing it, and work on those pincer grasp fine motor skills by writing it.

Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoFz9V_BEG4 - Letter B Song 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF0Id-hH9y4 - All about bird clip 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ3Jd32lfwk - Book 

Materials
  1. Shaving Cream B : Shaving cream, table, cookie sheet pan, finger to write the letter B
  2. Sand/Dirt B : Sand, dirt
  3. Loose Parts B : Paper, pen, Draw the letter B, then have the child line up loose part items over the pen mark to form the letter B. 
  4. Bird Seed B : Bird seed, paper, pen, Draw the letter B, then have the child line up the seed over the pen mark to form the letter B.

Activity (Procedure):
  1. Shaving Cream B : If you have shaving cream in the house you can clear off a section of the table, or even use a clean cookie sheet. Spray some shaving cream, then practice with your child writing the letter B. This could also be done in the bathtub for an easy clean up! 
  2. Sand/Dirt B : If you have a sand box at home, or can find some dirt in the backyard or when you take a walk on the beach one day practice writing the letter B in these areas. 
  3. Loose Parts B : Gather pine cones, rocks, beach shells, legos, coins, recycled yogurt tops, and form them in a B, then have your child copy your B to practice the shape of the letter B.
  4. Bird Seed B : If you have bird seed at your house, great! On your beck, driveway, paper, or on a small plate you can form the letter B with the seed. Adults- you can draw the outline of the letter B if your child needs assistance.

Activity Wrap Up:
Can you identify the letter B? Bird starts with B!

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
  • recall, reuse, or identify a picture of new vocabulary from an informational text. 
  • use words and phrases acquired through being read to and responding to texts.
  • support children to use vocabulary words from a text.
  • model how to use clues, such as images, to connect to words in order to support application of the learned word.

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
See Procedures for three different ways to write out the letter B. 

Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
See Procedures for three different ways to write out the letter B. 


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Self Portrait!

4/13/2020

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*** This lesson plan is creating your own self portrait with materials found in nature! ***

What is our theme? Nature Self Portrait

What is the lesson (overall purpose)? To observe yourself in a mirror, then recreate yourself using natural products found outside! 

MA Guidelines/Standards:
SEL1: The child will be able to recognize, identify, and express his/her emotions.
SEL2: The child will demonstrate accurate self-perception.

Learning Outcomes:
Self-perception/self-concept can be defined as recognition of the attributes, abilities, attitudes, and values that children believe about themselves. Children’s self-concept, whether positive or negative, can greatly impact their motivation to learn, as well as their engagement in social interactions, satisfaction with efforts, willingness to take on challenges, etc. Culture, environment, and experience influence self-perception. 

Resources you can use to help with this lesson: Songs, Books & Videos (Motivational Techniques)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTnJw91s7Wk - Fun clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VElcT3kVux0 - Book 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgSC_0rKsYs - Book 

Materials
  • Leaves
  • Sticks
  • Rocks 
  • Pine Cones
  • Pine Needles
  • Flowers
  • Any outdoor material you can find!
  • Paper plate/paper/cardboard in the shape of your face.
  • Glue
  • Markers/crayons


Activity (Procedure):
  1. Look in a mirror, talk about your features on your face. Example; eye color, hair color, do you have freckles, teeth, ears, rosey cheeks, glasses.
  2. Go on a nature walk, look for materials that represent your features.
  3. When you think you have collected all the materials, grab your paper plate/piece of paper/ or cardboard face shape and start creating! 
  4. If you have glue at home you can clue your materials to the paper, if not you can just place the materials in the designated spots!

Activity Wrap Up:
Is your hair curly or straight? 
Do you have brown or blue eyes? 
Does mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, etc. have the same facial features as you?

How do I know what my child is learning? (Assessment)
Your child is learning that it is okay to be different. Your child is also learning to match natural materials to their own facial features; eye color, hair color, etc. 

How can you extend this activity? (Modifications)
  • Instead of going on a nature walk and collecting materials outside, you can go on a hunt inside the house collecting things like, string, shoe laces, beads, coin, etc. 
  • If you do not have glue at home, no worries, you can just create your self portrait by placing the materials in the designated spots! 

​Helpful Hints: (Pitfalls & Solutions)
Be creative! If you have brown hair, look for brown materials to recreate that hair. If you have blue eyes, look for materials that are blue!

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