How to put together your weekly lesson plan

Step 1: To start pick a weekly theme.  Try a theme that goes with the season or a holiday.  Pick themes that your child(ren) are interested in. Click to see my "2015 Tot-school and Preschool Weekly Themes" list.

Step 2: Coordinate your education builders to your theme.

Education builders:

Color:

Shape:

Number:

Letter:

Opposite words:

Texture:

Step 3: Find activities that will support your nursery rhyme. Plan activities that your child(ren) can do by themselves as well as activities that require your supervision and assistance. I try to plan activities with items I already have around the house; that way I don't need to spend any extra money.

Support Activities:

Art:

Books:

Cooking:

Dramatic Play:

Fine motor:

Gross motor:

Language:

Math:

Music:

Outside time:

Science:

Sensory:

Step 4: Go to the library and get books!  I love the library; we spend almost every Monday at the library collecting new books for our weekly theme. Don't forget to let your child(ren) pick a few books for themselves.  Reading is very important!

Step 5: Start playing and learning with your children and have fun!  Remember to get on their level and learn with them.

**Record your ideas: I bought a spiral notebook to write down all of my ideas. The first page has a list of the weekly themes for the year.  The rest of the pages look like this...                            

(Weekly Theme Title)

   Monday      Tuesday      Wednesday      Thursday      Friday
Subcategory:___________________________________________________
Color:_________________________________________________________
Shape:________________________________________________________
Number:_______________________________________________________
Letter:________________________________________________________
Opposite words:_________________________________________________
Texture:_______________________________________________________
Art:___________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Books:_________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Cooking:_______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Dramatic Play:___________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Fine motor:_____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Gross motor:____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Language:______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Math:_________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Music:_________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Outside time:____________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Science:_______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________
Sensory:_______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________