Preschool Science Experiments

This is lesson plans for 2 days of preschool science. The children were ages 3 and 4. All of the links will take you to other posts within ldscraftproject and give you directions and pictures on how to do the experiment.

Preschool Ideas: Science day 1

Objective: To help the children experiment and see reactions.

Lesson Plan: April 23 & 24  Letter “S” Science

Gathering (9-9:15): Day 1: Color mixing in Ziplocs on table

Weather/Calendar/Letter/Song(9:15-9:25): Letter S-Fridge Alphabet letter “S”,

The E says “s” the S says “s” every letter makes a sound the S says “s” (also letters M-Matthew, D-Dexter, T-Tyson, H-Hope, W-Whitney, L-Lydia)

Lesson & Activity (9:25-10): Discuss what experimenting is and what happened when mixing the colors, what they thought might happen and what did.

• Lava lamps


• Baking soda, colored vinegar, droppers, foil pans


• Colored milkn8

Snack (10-10:10):

• Strawberry or chocolate milk (let the kids mix their own and watch the milk change colors


• Graham crackers, marshmallows,

Music/Movement (10:10-10:25): Primary songs,

Book (10:25-10:40) Books on color: Mouse Paint, A color of his own, A bad case of stripes

Free Time(10:40-pick up): Outside time

 

Preschool Ideas: Science day 2

Lesson Plan: April 23 & 24  Letter “S” Science

Gathering (9-9:15): Day 2:  Crystal trees, balloons with pennies

Weather/Calendar/Letter/Song(9:15-9:25): Letter S-Fridge Alphabet letter “S”,

The E says “s” the S says “s” every letter makes a sound the S says “s” (also letters M-Matthew, D-Dexter, T-Tyson, H-Hope, W-Whitney, L-Lydia)

Lesson & Activity (9:25-10): Discuss what experimenting is and what happened when mixing the colors, what they thought might happen and what did.

• Sharpies, Fabric, Cups, Rubber bands, Alcohol, droppers


• Grow sponge animals


• Elephant Toothpaste


• Growing Soap

Snack (10-10:10):

• Ziploc bag slushies


• Graham crackers, marshmallows,

Music/Movement (10:10-10:25): Primary songs,

Book (10:25-10:40) Books on color: Mouse Paint, A color of his own, A bad case of stripes

Free Time(10:40-pick up): Outside Time

Preschool Fall Ideas

Today my topic for preschool was Fall

Here's the lesson plan I followed:

Preschool Ideas: Fall

Objective: To help the children become familiar with Fall as a season and time of year.

Lesson Plan: November 2, 2011  School: Fall  Letter: F  Color: Yellow/Brown

Gathering (9-9:15): Leaf rubbings with crayons

Weather/Calendar/Letter/Song(9:15-9:25): Letter F-Fridge Alphabet letter “f”,

Lesson (9:25-10): Using leaves talk about leaf colors, what happens to leaves, etc

• Allow the children to throw the leaves in the air and see how they fall.


• Sing “Leaves are Falling All Around” using leaves

Craft/Hands On Activity:

• Fall tree: Glue leaves onto tree


• Count the leaves: place candy corn where the leaves are and practice counting


• Fall leaf “stained glass”-tissue paper & contact paper

Snack (10-10:10): Leaf shaped cookies, carrots

Music/Movement (10:10-10:25):

• Leaves are Falling All Around
  
  
  
  • ALL THE LEAVES ARE FALLING DOWN
    Tune:  “London Bridges Falling Down”
  
  
  
  

All the leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down.  (Imitate leaves falling down)
All the leaves are falling down, it is Fall.

Take the rake and rake them up, rake them up, rake them up.  (Imitate raking up leaves)
Take the rake and rake them up, it is Fall.

Make a pile and jump right in, jump right in, jump right in.  (Children jump forward)
Make a pile and jump right in, it is Fall.

• Turning Turning Turning

Book (10:25-10:40): Fall Books

• The Leaves on the trees


• There was an old lady who swallowed some leaves


• Colorful leaves

Free Time(10:40-pick up): Outside, train, blocks, more play dough

Leaf Rubbings (We do not live in an area with interesting leaves! So we used die cuts of leaves which totally still worked!):

Stained Glass Leaves: Use clear contact paper and randomly place pieces of tissue or other paper. Place another pieces of contact paper onto to sandwich in the tissue paper. Trace and cut out leaves. (In the end we traced a leaf shape onto the contact paper, time ran out!).


Fall Trees: Our school district has an awesome AV center filled with die cuts. I cut trees, leaves and the word FALL. This was great gluing practice!


Count the Leaves: This is how we started snack. They had to count the candy corn before they could eat them!


The kids favorite book on Fall: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves!!

Preschool Alphabet-day 1

Here is my lesson plan as well as some pictures from my first day of teaching our coop preschool. Things went well and the children enjoyed themselves. I will revamp snack for Wednesday, but other than that things went as planned!

Preschool Ideas: ABC and the letter “A” Day-1

Objective: To help the children become familiar with the alphabet through hands on, books & art with an emphasis on their first name and first letter of their name.

Lesson Plan: Sept 19^th School: ABC’s  Letter: A  Color: Red/Blue

Gathering (9-9:15): Play dough with Alphabet cookie cutters

Weather/Calendar/Letter/Song(9:15-9:25): Letter A-Fridge Alphabet letter “a”,

The A says “a” the A says “a” every letter makes a sound the A says “a”

Lesson (9:25-10): Caterpillar alphabet & Chika Chika Boom Boom book with tree

• Reinforce the letters of the alphabet using Leapfrog Alphabet Caterpillar


• Read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
  
  
  
  • Using Coconut Tree with letters removed have kids: 1- pick a letter 2-say letter name 3-put letter back onto tree
  
  
  
  

Craft/Hands On Activity: Apple A, First letter of name coloring

• Apple A- glue & q-tips,


• First letter of name coloring-crayons

Snack (10-10:10): Cinnamon Sugar Pie Crust Names + Apple slices

Music/Movement (10:10-10:25): ABC song

Preschool Playlist

• ABC’s


• Shake the sillies out


• Turning Turning Turning

Book (10:25-10:40) Alphabet books

• Star Wars ABC’s


• A is for Ark


• Eating the Alphabet


• Dr Suess ABC’s

Free Time(10:40-pick up): Play outside

Playdough with ABC cookie cutters:

Apple  "A":

Coloring 1st letter of their name:

Alphabet books:

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree: