BYU-Idaho Preschool Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan #19

Lab 4
Gross Motor/Balls

CLEAN UP 2:50 – 3:00 p.m.

I will play the “Clean Up Song”
Transition to I will play the “Silly Dance Contest” song while the Kindle
Gathering Time children gather and follow along with the actions Speaker
of the song. Then I will invite the children to sit
down behind the tape.

GATHERING TIME 3:00 – 3:10 p.m.

Activity Name Description Materials
1. Some balls look “Hello boys and girls! There are many different
similar but they are types of balls that we can play with. I will show
used in different the children each of the different balls and talk
ways about how some of them look similar but they are
used differently. I will show them how we use
each of them and after I tell them how we
“bounce a basketball” I will have them move
their arm to pretend they are bouncing the ball. I
will do this for each of the balls I have.
IELG 3.31 Participate cooperatively in group
activities.
2. Inside of balls I will ask the children if they know what is inside of
a ball and how a ball keeps its shape? Then I will
show them the inside of a ball that has already
been cut open and we will talk about what we
see. I will tell the the inside is called a bladder
and that is what holds the air inside of the ball.
3 Song I will lead the children in singing a song/ doing
the actions along with it.
This is how I bounce the ball, bounce the ball,
bounce the ball
This is the way I bounce the ball
In preschool!
Repeat with throw the ball, roll the ball, and kick
the ball
Transition to Small Now let’s sing I Can Blow a Bubble as we go to
Focus our groups. We will sing “I can blow a bubble,
woo, woo, woo. It isn’t any trouble; woo, woo,
woo. Then I let float up high and watch it POP!
After each time we sing it I will dismiss a group to
go with their teacher.

SMALL FOCUS GROUP 3:10 – 3:25 p.m.

Green Circles Blue Stars Yellow Triangles Red Squares
Ms. Karmyn Ms. Aubri Ms. Sabrina Ms. Morgan

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 Bentley Emma B. Emma A. Tyson
Braxton Jacob Zoe Kylie
Dillon Andrew Jack Daniel
Teddy Simon Evelyn Abby
Xander Ty Elijah Grant
Your Activity Description & Objective Materials
Which ball goes with Description: Each group will get a poster size paper 1) Poster and ball
which activity? that is split into sections of bouncing, rolling, throwing, pictures
and kicking. Each group will get pictures of different 2) Jump, Frog, Jump
balls and they will glue the pictures where they think by Robert Kalan
they go on the poster depending on how that ball is (P K3)
used. 3) Move It! by
Child Objective: Children will use their cognitive skills Adrienne Mason
as they think and decide which are to glue each (P M27)
picture of a ball under. IELG 1.13 Children compare, 4) Skip to my Lou by
contrast, and evaluate experiences, tasks, and Nadine Westcott
events building on prior knowledge. (P W7)
Intentional Teaching: Teacher will model how to 5) I Need Something
place the pictures and they will help the children to Round by Gail
figure out where each picture goes by asking them Riley (P R18)
questions.

CLOSING CIRCLE 3:25 – 3:40 p.m.

Transition to Closing I will play the Freeze Dance song to gather the children over for closing circle.
Circle
Activity Name Description Materials
Movement Activity: I will play the Hokey Pokey song and we will sing and Kindle
Hokey Pokey follow along with the actions to it. speaker
Phonemic Awareness: I will have some farm animals. I will pull them out one Farm animals
Old McDonald at a time and we will sing the Old McDonald song
about the animal that picked.
Music Activity: The children will sing and follow along with the actions Five stuffed animal
Five Little Monkeys of Five Little Monkeys Singing in a Tree. monkeys
Story (non-book): There I will tell the story along with the visuals to the children. There was an Old
was an Old Lady Who Lady Who
Swallowed a fly Swallowed a Fly
(WR)
Age Appropriate I will play a song on the speaker. As the song plays the Bean bags
Game: children will pass the bean bag around and when I
Bean bag pass stop the music the child holding the bean bag will say
the color of it.
Book: I will read the book, Sheep in the Jeep to the children. Sheep in a Jeep (B
Sheep in the Jeep S6)
Parachute We will hold onto the parachute and I will tell them Parachute
whether to shake it high, low, fast, or slow.

WORDS TO SONGS & FINGERPLAYS:

Five Little Monkeys:

Five little monkeys sitting in a tree,

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Teasing Mr. Crocodile: “You can’t catch me!”
Along comes Mr. Crocodile
As quiet as can be and…SNAP!
Four little monkeys sitting in a tree…
Three little monkeys sitting in a tree…
Two little monkeys sitting in a tree…
One little monkey sitting in a tree,
Teasing Mr. Crocodile: “You can’t catch me!”
Along comes Mr. Crocodile
As quiet as can be and….SNAP!
And away swims Mr. Crocodile as full as he can be!

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