I need some preschool ideas! :)?

Question

I need to create one lesson for gross motor, and one sensory/science lesson. Anyone have any suggestions? The children are of ages 3-5, and are a very hectic group that gets out of control easily. Any good ideas?

Answer 1

gross motor - have a snowball fight this time of year - give them each a piece of paper, wad it up and start throwing - blow your whistle for STOP to get them back under control.

sensory table - we have bubbles in our sensory table right now - we have also used sand, construction vehicles, beans, corn, flour.

science table -we have balancing bears out right now - we also have a microscope , plants, insects, anything from outdoors although avoid nuts because of so many peanut allergies out there.

Good luck.

Answer 2

for gross motor, there are lots of different things you could do to keep those wiggle worms busy!

-play red light/green light or mother may I with different types of motions (walk, skip, hop, jump, run, gallop, slide, etc.)

-there are a lot of songs out there that encourage gross motor skills, like I know there is a Greg and Steve one that uses different animal movements, New Zoo Review I think it is called; or you could find the cd for the carnival of the animals and have the kids act out how the animals move

-relay races using different types of motions

-incorporate language arts by laying out big letter cards and have them march/skip/hop/run/walk/jump/crawl/slith... around the ABC's and then when the music stops, pick up the letter that is closest and tell what letter it is or what sound it makes

for sensory/science, one of my favorites is making "clean mud" - you grate ivory soap into shavings (or I think you can buy it already in shavings?), tear up some toilet paper, and add water. Squish it all together, and it feels really cool! Plus for clean-up all you have to do is rinse and dry.

Or you could try Oobleck/goup/I've heard lots of names for it, but basically you just mix cornstarch and water an dit makes this awesome stuff that acts like a solid when you apply pressure by hitting it/rolling it/jumping on it, but then when the pressure stops it goes into a liquid. Really fun, but a little messy.