MCCSA HEAD START WEEKLY LESSON PLAN

Week: March 22-25, 2004 Unit Theme: Appreciating the Arts/ Music

Curriculum Goals: Gross Motor & Representation and Symbolic Thinking

Curriculum Objectives: #14 Demonstrates basic locomotor skills & #31 Takes on pretend roles and situations

Daily Routine	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Individual Planning
Arrival Routine Planning Centers	Open Snack Toothbrushing Writing out plan for free choice; journals	Open Snack Toothbrushing Draw plan for free choice	Open Snack Toothbrushing Journals	Open Snack Toothbrushing Rubber stamps and word cards
Morning Meeting Book Finger plays	Sing Sophie Sing Daily News	Froggy Plays in the Band Daily News	Snake Alley Band Daily News	Color Dance Daily News
Outdoors Gross Motor	Marching Outdoors with instruments	Soccer ball, Football, pretend to be cheerleaders	Climber, swings, listening walk	Musical games, such as London Bridges in the gym
Free Choice Discovery Time	Water play	Play the classics in the background	Listening Center “Down by the Bay” Tape and book	Visit with our guest, play with real instruments
Art Experience	Paint w/ biocolors on paper plates for shakers	Spread paint around paper by blowing through a straw	Rockin’ and Rollin’ painting in a can	Set out an assortment of boxes, cardboard tubes, color tape, etc. create an instrument
Small Group	Make paper plate shakers	Introduce lower case rubber stamps Make paper plate shakers	Musical Instruments Memory Game	See art Musical Instruments memory game
Large Group Music/Movement Story Time	Jamberry Experiment with instruments/ play fast, slow, quiet, etc.	Ben’s Trumpet Guess the sound: Without looking children will guess which instrument was played	I Have Another Language Other than instruments what can we find to make sound/ assemble a band	Brown Bear (book and cd) “ The Freeze” with live music; sing together with classical guitar music
Lunch Routine Transition Activity	Our favorite “Sleeping, Sleeping” but insert “drummer, piano player, guitarist” etc	Stretchies with classical music	Hap Palmer’s song “Touch”	Sing eachother’s names as dismissed/ sing it with loud voice, opera voice, rap, etc
Weekly Materials to Enhance the Environment
Literacy/Library/Writing Upper and lower case rubber stamps		Numeracy/Math Manipulatives Graph music preference Clapping patterns		Discovery/Science Drums, rainstick, sound shakers, tape recorder and music tapes
Computer Sammy’s Science House/ Make a Movie Visit http://www.northern-pine.com/songs/ and sing songs together		Blocks Use large hollow blocks to make stages for performing		Sensory/Sand/Water sound shakers; Water play w/an assortment of sponges, soak up water and squeeze into another pan; playdough with alphabet cookie cutters
Vocabulary Instrument, band, orchestra, violin, accordion, guitar, perform		Dramatic Play Make and sell tickets to a performance; cash register, scarves, costumes, poster of musical		Health/Safety/Self-Help Discuss how we can take care of our ears (cover when cold outside, not listening to too loud music); How can our ears help keep us safe? Take a listening walk, listen for sounds of traffic, dogs barking, etc
Family/Community Partnership PICL folders March Parenting Awareness Handouts		Multicultural Exposure A variety of music, some from other cultures (Arabic children’s songs, polka music		Outdoor/Gross Motor Instruments/parade; Old classic music games such as Ring Around the Rosie, Farmer in the Dell, London Bridges
Special Guests/Activities/Field Trips A musician is coming to play for us on Thursday

Transition song “Sleeping, Sleeping, all the children are sleeping; and when they woke up they were ____________________