preschool

9:30 Gathering – 
Puzzles
9:40 Circle Time 
-song –If you're happy and you know it- clap snap, rap, tap etc.
-home/school poster
-Read Aloud "where the wild things are"

9:50 Literacy Activity – rhyming AP 
SEEL AT HOME
Playing to Learn
Goal: Read and write words ending with –ap (e.g., cap).
You will need: Items in the folder: paper
From home: scrap fabric or paper, toy animal or doll, scissors, stapler or 
tape, pencil
Activity: Make a Cap
1. Help your child make a cap with flaps and straps out of scrap fabric or paper for their favorite toy or 
doll:
• Cut a circle of fabric or paper.  Cut a slit to the center of the circle and wrap the fabric or paper 
to make a shallow cone (cap).
• Cut 2 half circle flaps and attach them to both sides of the cap.
• Cut 2 straps of fabric or paper and attach them to the cap.
2. Say phrases with the –ap words as you work together (e.g.; Wrap the paper to make a cap. Snap the 
flap to the cap. Look, there’s a gap in the cap).
3. Have your child write several –ap words and attach them to the cap. 
4. Send the toy or doll to school with your child to show off its cap with a flap to a teacher and a friend. 
Remember to be playful and have fun!  
The activity can be repeated several times.
© 2010 Project SEEL, McKay School of Education, Brigham Young Universit
If extra time- have child write -AP words onto the cap or label the flaps, and straps
10:05 Math – Sorting 
Dump seashells out on table
Have children sort by color, size, etc.
Talk about the different ways to sort
Make a chart signifying one of these ways to sort
Let kids paint them/ or color/marker on them, and then talk about how differently they could be sorted now.
If extra time: discuss where seashells come from (which type of body of water)
Talk about the difference between oceans/lakes/rivers. Connect seashells to fossils.


10:20 Break/Snack – Pop Popcorn and talk about the salt that we add on top, and then have a discussion about where salt comes from, and talk about the great salt lake

10:40 Science/Social Studies – 
Explain that we are going to the  Great Salt Lake for a field trip – Let the kids taste water, then salt water. They look the same but they taste different. Why? Explain that there is salt in the salt water and you can’t see it because it dissolved. Pour salt in a clear water bottle. Add water. Get out the magnifying glasses and let the kids look at the salt at the bottom of the bottle. Then put on the lid and let the kids take turns shaking it. Ask where the salt went? Talk about how the Great Salt Lake is filled with salt, but you can’t see it unless the water evaporates leaving the salt behind.

11:05 Choosing Time 
make a salt painting with water color then sprinkle salt and watch it dissolve/react
puzzles 
Make more fossils for field trip

11:25 Clean up, Gather to sing and read until picked up