Preschool Theme: Lion or Lamb
Is today's weather more like a lion or a lamb?
Is today's weather more like a lion or a lamb?
Skill
Tip:
Use nursery rhymes to promote the understanding of rhyming words:
• Recite rhymes in a whisper and say the rhyming word aloud.
• Recite the rhyme stopping and waiting for the children to fill in the second rhyming word in a rhyming word pair.
• Recite the rhyme in a loud voice and whisper the rhyming word.
• Have the children clap on rhyming word pairs.
Use nursery rhymes to promote the understanding of rhyming words:
• Recite rhymes in a whisper and say the rhyming word aloud.
• Recite the rhyme stopping and waiting for the children to fill in the second rhyming word in a rhyming word pair.
• Recite the rhyme in a loud voice and whisper the rhyming word.
• Have the children clap on rhyming word pairs.
Book
Introduction/Modeling skill:
Read Mary Had a Little Lamb by Mary Ann Hoberman and Nadine Bernard Westcott. As you read through the book,
recite the rhyme stopping and waiting for the children to fill in the second
rhyming word in a rhyming word pair.
Additional theme related book (optional):
Don’t Get Lost by Pat Hutchins
Tie-in song, rhyme, fingerplay and/or
large group activity:
If You’re Happy and You Know It by Jan Cabrera sing-along action book
Additional Book(s):
Rory and the Lion
What’s Wrong with My Hair by Satoshi Kitamura
Watch us Play by Miela Ford
Tie-in Activity
"March comes in like a lion but goes out like a lamb." March is the time of year when the seasons change from winter to spring. Sometimes people compare the cold, blowy weather in early March to a lion's roar. By the end of March, the weather becomes milder and calmer like a lamb. Is today more like a lion or a lamb?
Materials
paper plate
crayons
yellow and orange strips of construction paper
glue
cotton balls
Follow the rebus directions to
create Lamb/Lion on the paper plate.
Sources
Cornell, Teresa and Amy Weaver, Follow-the-Directions Art Activities, Scholastic, 2005.
Sources
Cornell, Teresa and Amy Weaver, Follow-the-Directions Art Activities, Scholastic, 2005.
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