Birds Nest

LESSON PLAN

Thematic Unit: The Birds

Name of the Lesson: Weaving a Nest for 5 years old

Objective:	Ø  At the end of the lesson, the children will be able to understand how the nest is made by seeing an illustration of varied types of nest. Ø  Refine their physical skills through fine motor activity as they learn to weave their own nest using a yarn or a ribbon.
Pre-requisite Skills:	Recognition and understanding how and why the birds made their own nest and the importance of it. It will allow also the children to develop emotional and spiritual skills through empathizing with the Birds efforts of making it as they also making their own model nest.
Materials Needed:	Ø  Half a paper plate cut and punched hole across twice Ø  1 large strip of yarn or ribbon for each child (30 inches) Ø  1 brown or yellow crayon per child to shade the paper plate Ø  1 book about Birds Ø  1 real or fake birds nest
Classroom Dynamics:	Ø  During the discussion or presentation of the lesson and the display of the materials particularly the nest, the children must be seated in a semi-circle arrangement. Ø  During the activity or the nest weaving the children will be seated at their desk.
Presentation:	Ø  Children will be shown a bird’s nest. It will be passed around from child to child as the teacher will remind the students
Reinforcement Activity	Gather the students outside preferably in the park and let them look for a bird's nest. If they cannot find, bring them back inside the classroom or just gather them around you and show to them the man-made nest that you made. Let their imagination started to flow as you are discussing about the activity for the day. In the classroom: let them make their own bird's nest. Let them manipulate the materials and create according to their own will.
Developmental Focus:	Social, cognitive, emotional and fine motor skills

THE SENSE OF TOUCH

LESSON PLAN

THE SENSE OF TOUCH

Science Lesson for 4 to 5 years old

Objective:	After the lesson, the children will be able to feel things into their skin the sense of touch and understand the concepts of it as one of the 5 human senses.
Pre-requisite Skills:	Recognition and understanding of the objects in their world. It will allow the children to explore their curiosity how to feel things in different ways like when clothes are wet, dry, or soapy.
Materials Needed:	Ø  Warm water, liquid soap Ø  Doll clothes, cloths lines Ø  Basin and towels (basin will be on top of the towel, and there should be enough towels around to avoid mess and accident)
Classroom Dynamics:	Children will be positioned in one line or two depending on how big is the class. Prepare the materials needed but not the doll clothes.
Presentation:	Ø  Introduce the new lesson “The Sense of Touch”. Ø  Explain to the children how important it is as one of the five senses of human being. Ø  Show some colored pictures pertaining to the topic. Ø  Ask the children how they feel when touching wet or dry things to enhance their interest of the topic.
Reinforcement Activity:	Ø  Let children gather up the doll clothes in the housekeeping area and educator will gather the rest of the materials and positioned it to them. Ø  Encourage the children to wash all the clothes. Ø  First, wash in plain water. Ask them “How does it feel?” “Do the clothes feel different?” Ø  Next, let the children use liquid soap on them. Ø  Rinse the clothes. Ask “How do you feel?” Hang the clothes on a line. Ask “How do you feel as they begin to dry?” Ø  Discuss the different ways the clothes feel, why we wash clothes, why we use soap and why we hang clothes on a clothe line.
Developmental Focus:	Touching objects helps children become familiar with them. It is important to explain the sense of touch to the children because it works together with sight to help them identify and understand objects in their world. Ø  Intellectual, social, emotional and physical

Planting Seed Experiment

PLANTING SEED EXPERIMENT

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This is a science experiment for young children ages from 5 to 7 years old. This activity will enhance the children's ability to grasp the concepts of how the  plants grow and the importance of water and sunlight to make a plant survive.

I-                Objective: To understand how the seed grow into a plant.

                     Collecting daily data.

          Comparison: Seed with enough water & sunlight vs seed with a lot of water & no sunlight

                                               

II-              Materials: Sunflower seed (any seed available), Plastic cup, water, paper & pen

III-            Procedure:

Prepare materials, wear gloves and plant the seed.

IV-             Data:    

  

Day	Seed with enough water & sunlight Measurement (cm)	Seed with lots of water & no sunlight Measurement (cm)
1	Just planted 0 cm	Just planted 0 cm
2	0 cm	0 cm
3	0 cm	0 cm
4	0 cm A little bit of soil breakage	0 cm
5	2 cm Sprout is coming	0 cm
6	2.5 cm	0 cm
7	1 inch	0 cm
8	2. 7 inches	0 cm
9	3.1 inckes	0 cm

  

1.      What did you notice on the first day of planting? 

-        Just dirt on the cup

2.      After a week, what did you notice about the two seeds? Does the seed grow or not?

-        The first cup, the seed grow but the other cup no.

V-               Analysis

When planting seed, we need to put enough water and sunlight in order for them to grow, however if we put a lot of water, the seed will get drowned and die and cannot survive. If we put a lot of water and place the pot in a sunny area, there will be possibilities that the seed will survive but if the seed will stay in the dark, the seed will die.

Important thought: 

Seed is like a child, if the mother will give enough love which is the water & sunlight, the child will grow healthy, if too much love or the child is always alone, the child maybe survived however, the child will grow unhealthy.

Great Taste Popsicle Fun Making

Activity Name: great Taste Popsicle Fun Making
Age Group: 4 to 5 years old
Number of Children: 10
Length of the Activity: 15 to 20 minutes

Goal of the Activity: Promoting cognitive skills and enhancing curiosity.

Objective of the Activity: The children will be able to anticipate the concept of making a Popsicle and be able to understand that there are steps that need to be done before they get the product.

Materials & Ingredients Required:

• Fruits of any kinds
• Sugar to taste
• Milk
• Yogurt
• Blender

Introduction: Introduce the activity & the materials to the children.

Detailed Progression of the Activity:

1. Prepare all the materials needed for the activity.
2. Cut all the fruits & place it on the plate.
3. Measure the sugar, milk & yogurt as needed.
4. Prepare the Popsicle molder or we can use plastic cups and Popsicle sticks.
5. Let the children guess how many hours does the Popsicle gets ready.
6. Record their answer and compare the data after.
7. Let the children draw what their Popsicle look example, the taste. Let them tell a short story about Popsicle, this is to enhance their imaginative and creative thinking skills plus language skills enhancing. (You can make video of the children when they describe or tell their experiment, this is optional).
8. Compare the guesses and the actual data result.

This activity is whole group participation.

Transitions: 

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