English Language Arts Preschool-Age 4 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Speaking and Listening (P4.SL)

Students will learn to collaborate, express and listen to ideas, integrate and evaluate information from various sources, use media and visual displays as well as language and grammar strategically to help achieve communicative purposes, and adapt to context and task.

Standard P4.SL.3:

Use age-appropriate language, grammar, volume, and pronunciation when speaking or presenting.

• Activity - Dream Snow
  Child(ren) will interact with toy animals representing the farm animals discussed in Dream Snow by Eric Carle. Child(ren) will make animal sounds, sort, and sequence animals as they were named in the book.
• Cook - Make Fry Bread
  Children will talk about and measure ingredients to make fry bread. 
• Drama - Hello Toes, Hello Feet
  Children will act out the story by copying the actions the little girl has done while wearing different shoes  to help demonstrate the beginning, middle, and end of the story. 
• Drama - I Ain't Gonna Paint
  Children will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Children will be able to identify body parts, review and label several color words, and use rhyming to predict what will be painted next.  
• Drama - Re-enact Mel Fell
  Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Mel is learning to fly and perseveres until she is successful.
• Drama - Saturday
  Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. 
• Drama - Theo's Mood
  Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. 
• Read - Dragons Love Tacos
  Child(ren) will read the book Dragons Love Tacos with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Dream Snow
  Child(ren) will read the book Dream Snow with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Fry Bread
  Child(ren) will read the book Fry Bread with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Hello Toes, Hello Feet
  Child(ren) will read the book Hello Toes, Hello Feet with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - I Ain't Gonna Paint No More
  Child(ren) will read the book I Ain't Gonna Paint No More with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Kahlil and Mr. Hagerty
  Child(ren) will read the book Khalil and Mr. Hagerty with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.This story is about a house that has been separated into an upstairs and downstairs apartment.  A young boy named Khalil and and older gentleman, Mr. Hagerty,  form a friendship throughout the story. Together they share ideas, time, and thoughts. 
• Read - Mel Fell
  Child(ren) will read the book Mel Fell with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Saturday
  Child(ren) will read the book Saturday with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Seeds Move
  Child(ren) will read the book Seeds Move with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Silly Sally
  Child(ren) will read the book Silly Sally with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Strictly No Elephants
  Child(ren) will read the book Strictly No Elephants with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Read - Theo's Mood
  Child(ren) will read the book Theo's Mood with an adult for the first time. Story will be re-read several times during the week.
• Visual Arts - Dragons Love Tacos
  Children will create decorations, party gifts, and pretend food for a party they want to throw. Encourage them to create decorations, hats, signs, invitations, food, etc. 
• Weather
  Children will look out the window to determine what the weather conditions are for the day and determine what clothes would help them be comfortable to dress in for the day.

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