Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Lesson Plans

I spent most of my day working on Lesson Plans - reviewing the templates used for the Primary grades and then creating my own version for the Pre-School. I will have three 1.75 hour classes a day. The 8:00 class will be with the 5 year olds, the 10:00 class with the 4s, and the 12:00 class with the 3s.

That means there are a lot of Lesson Plans to create! I've got lots of ideas swimming around my head. I just have no idea what a 3 year old is going to understand in a language the child doesn't know. And what if they start crying for their mammas? And what if they get into a spat with another child? Worst of all, what if my teaching is so bad that they fall asleep???

If anyone has some good, simple, worthy teaching ideas for pre-schoolers, please let me know!

5 comments:

Brenda Maas said...

Don't worry so much, you will be great.
I will send you an email.

Babs said...

Keep em moving! All 3 year olds like to mooooooove........

Mark and Ann Overby said...

Hi Cynthia! I read your blog every day :) What is your current email address? I googled preschool activities and came up with a bunch of sites. Have fun!

Frankly Ronda said...

Good Luck Monday!

Unknown said...

Hi Cynthia!

I'm glad to hear you like your new school. :o)

Here are some websites I've found helpful for teaching little ones:

http://www.crayola.com/educators/
All kinds of great projects and lesson plans

http://www.primarygames.com/print_zone/print_zone.htm
Stationery, Awards, Coloring Pages and Activities

http://www.esl-kids.com/worksheets/worksheets.html
A worksheet generator - You choose a theme and select the vocab, it puts together worksheets, flashcards and games with pictures. I love it!

http://www.pitara.com/activities/craft.asp
A teaching website from India. It has a lot of fun arts and crafts activities for kids.

http://www.eslprintables.com
If you ever create your own resources on your computer, this site is great. You can submit your own lesson plans, games or worksheets, and get points to download other teachers' submissions. I've used this one a lot.

Hope those are helpful for you.

Cheers!

D-