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i am in high school and iam a preschoolers teacher and i need a lesson plan okay well the theme is Seussville or the letter Nn and the subject area is science. help!! Also another is the theme is Kindergarten here i come or the letter Ww and Xx and subject area is Science. please help if yoou can!!!

Our focus letter is Nn this week. Here are some things we have done or will be doing.
* build Nn with noodles.
* sensory-noodles- you can add a variety to work in sorting, patterning, etc. Color noodles with rubbing alcohol and food coloring.
* name sort…we do this in various ways through the year but this time we are going to sort newspaper/magazine letters into their appropiate column to match their name.
* write multiple N’s and n’s with white crayon on white construction paper and let the children use watercolor to paint over top. If you press hardly with the crayon, the better the effect. The watercolor will resist teh crayon. You may wish to do this for Ww.
* We use the focus letter in a song and find all the Nn’s and count them. Even include simple addition by counting upper case and then counting lower case. The chant we are using for N goes like this.
“N” is for Nuts
N is for nuts that I like to eat, (form circles with thumbs and fingers)
N is for nest where a bird can sleep. (cup hands together)
N is for net to catch a big fish, (Pretend to net fish)
N is for noodles, my favorite dish. (pretend to eat)
N is for noise, a very loud sound, (cover ears with hands)
N is for nails that I like to pound. (pretend to hammer)
Jean Warren
* There are quite a few "n" opposites that you can use for a language activity. I sometimes create picture pairs and glue them onto the block letter. Night/day; naughty/good; narrow/wide; never/always; noisy/quiet; now/later; near/far; new/old; neat/messy…
* we use this time to work with number/letter sorts. Etc

Seussville:
There are a great many books that you can use as jumping boards for rhyming, etc.

One year I took a digital picture of each child wearing a cat in the hat hat and we glued it to a background and added red and white squares in an ABAB pattern and spelled their name.

Dictation: There’s a Wocket in My Pocket…what is in their pocket? You cut a half piece of construction paper lengthwise and then fold in half and trim to make it look like a pocket. Write the question, What is in your pocket? and have them write their name on the front and then lift the flap to draw a picture of what could be in their pocket and have them dictate a sentence or two.

Patterning again…make a paper hat using red and white strips.

Make a cat face with uppercase letters and hats with lower case letters (or match upper to upper and lower to lower if that is where they are at developmentally),

Seriation: remember the little guys a,b, and c? Use an adult cat in the hat hat and place inside the little guys in different sizes and have them sort from largest to smallest…put the letters on each to reinforce letter recognition/sound/order, etc.

Dr. Seuss’ ABC is great intro to alliteration.

Read multiple books and graph favorites

Discuss rainy day activities and create a rainy day bulletin board by having the children list their favorite thing to do on a rainy day. Have them place their ideas on a cut-out of a raindrop. Place the raindrops on the board around a picture of a house and a cat in a hat. Title the board "Fun in the Rain

Collect various pictures of hats and place them around the room. Discuss each hat and when or where you might wear the hat.

I do not claim these as my own original ideas. Most were ideas from the internet. If you search Dr. Seuss activities I’m sure you’ll come up with many more!

Science: does it have to be in accordance to your theme? I strongly suggest you check your local library and see if there are back issues of The Mailbox Preschool magazine. They have science explorations in every issue! As well as a great many more very appropiate activities!

Ww
* Weave
* W picture collage
* Hang up blue b.b. paper or provide individual blue paper and have them practice making W for waves. \/\/\/\/\/\/\/ (pre writing)
* Wiggly Worm Painting- use yarn for worms
* Can of worms…read a book about worms/garden; go over w pictures/words; and then provide a simple can on construction paper with the word worms on it. Use narrow paintbrushes and brown paint to make the worms.
* cut strips of paper for free cutting and then provide them to glue and make w’s…same for x’s
* Do a share ‘n’ tell session and have the children bring in something made of wood to share about.
* W is for water…lots of ideas there! Our kids like to "go fishing". I put water in a plastic dish tub and magnetic letters and numbers. You can sort by whether it is a letter/number or sort letters by sticks, curves, or both.
* Playdough "worms" to make the letter… can be used for the other letters as well.

Good luck on Xx! That is one of the letters that I have very few ideas collected for. We always incorporated xrays.

I have a student that I am tutoring. He is almost ten years old and he is about 2 years behind in mathematics as well as reading. Do any of you have a good lesson plan idea for him?

There are tons of lessons that you can use via the collaboration of the web. Do a search for math lessons for 5th grader or the grade that the student is in. You can tweak the lessons to help the student with specific skills and build them from there.
Best Wishes
Blessings

Why should educators differentiate their teaching style and lesson plans in order to accommodate multiple intelligences?

In any single class, there will be students who have different learning styles. Some have to see a word written down. Some remember what they hear. Others remember visual images. And some need kinetic experiences. Many students learn words set to music more easily.

As you say, there are also different types of intelligence, including musical intelligence, artistic and right-brain appreciation.

Apart form all that, it’s more stimulating (less boring) to have variety.

I’m a certified substitute teacher but I haven’t done any jobs yet and I still need to find some lesson plans in case I sub for a class that doesn’t have one for me. Is there a website where I can download free lesson plans?

There are all kinds of them out there. A really good one is readwritethink.org.

Whatever you do, I’d encourage you to keep it simple. You’re probably not, for example, going to be able to go into incredible depth in a substitute situation. Kids will be ‘playing’ you. No matter how much you may think otherwise, substitutes are limited in what they can do by students who know the rules aren’t quite the same as when their regular teacher is in the class.

Good luck.

What can make me an effective as well as interesting MBA teacher? I want best lesson plans to teach marketing. Accordingly, I also require best PPTs, cases , motivating tools etc. Kindly help.

I would do it on Social networking, how to manage people or sales. This are things they never teach in collage but is the most usefully in the real work world

I am in a graduate teacher education program. I need some science lesson plans or some science labs. Does anyone know a good web site that has lesson plans on science, please help me out.

brainpop.com

Where can I find religion lesson plans for grade 2?
Feeding the five thousand, good samaritan, palm sunday, last supper and the resurrection of Jesus.
Where can I find good ones….

there is sunday school or if you want the child to learn more you can put your child in a catholic school and ask for special course or something

Where I come from, teachers have to present their lesson plans daily to their superiors. It makes me feel quite offended, as if I had homework to do and be checked every day. Is there any similar process of overseeing teacher’s performances in class in the US?

At my previous school, I was required to submit an online copy of my lesson plan the week before, and to have a hard copy in my grade book when I was observed. It was a huge waste of time and paper. That was a school policy, not a district-wide one (Chicago Public Schools) and all of us felt like we were being checked-up on.

The school where I teach now, a private school, has no such rules, so my time is spend doing more constructive things.

I am giving her art lessons weekly all summer and can’t find a good book or free web site that has great ideas for arts/crafts for 7 yr olds or lesson plans to teach her art education early. Thanks! : )

These are teacher books I have used for teaching a summer art class:
25 Terrific Art Projects based on Favorite Picture Books
by Karen Backus, Linda Evans and Mary Thompson
Published by Scholastic

Art for All Seasons
published by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Art Works for Kids
published by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers

Masterpiece of the Month
published by Teacher Created Resources

The Usborne First Book of Art- with lots of projects to do
by Usborne publishing

The Children’s Book of Art- an introduction to famous paintings
by Usborne publishing

***Storybook Art by MaryAnn Kohl (will be at the library)
****this is excellent

Pictures I have used that work well:
Starry Night, Sunflowers both by Vincent vanGogh
Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet

Websites I have learned from:
Art Select.com (you can look up a painting or artist)
princetonol.com (a school art show)
brightring.com (a site by teacher Mary Ann Kohl)

Picture books to check out from the library:
Allison’s Zinnea by Anita Lobel
Creation by Gerald McDermott
Waiting for Wings by Lois Ehlert
Zoo Looking by Lois Ehlert
Camille and the Sunflowers by Lawrence Anholt (about VanGogh)
books by Eric Carle

try making your own paper by using watercolors or rubbing a crayon against a rough surface, then make a picture. We did this with the book "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle.

try making your own paper and

I’m training to become a teacher. What kinds of things do 6th graders learn. Can someone give me a few lesson plans in the following subjects:
Math
Science
English
Social studies

in math we learn about how 2 reduce and add fractions

in science we learn about air masses and things like that

in english we are learning about how to make a paragraph with a topic sentence and everything

in social studies we are learning about different countries