Lesson plan for 3 year olds?

Question

Ok so I need a lesson plan about snow for 3 year olds. My topic is snow. I was going to read frosty the snowman at first and give the kids popsicle sticks with animals or children on them from Frosty's play group. I was going to write the book using the kids names so it is like it is really them in the story.

But I need a better idea and it is due this Wed.! Please help!

Topic - Snow

Storytime activity?

Answer 1

u can get play dough and they could make somthin in the snow or whatever i like the book idea too

Answer 2

Ok..So here are some great activities that you can use for your lesson plan on snow:

Have your children glue precut snow people shapes onto dark blue construction paper and add details with crayons. Pour small amounts of white tempera paint over sponges placed in shallow pans. Then invite the children to press their fingertips onto the sponges and make fingerprint “snowflakes” all over their papers.

Let the children use white chalk to draw snowflakes on dark colored paper. Show them how to make a large X shape and then draw a horizontal line across the middle of the X to make a six-pointed snowflake base. Have them decorate the lines of their snowflake bases with the chalk any way they wish. SNOW SCIENCE

Spoon snow into three containers. Add drops of red and blue food coloring to one container, drops of red and yellow to another, and drops of blue and yellow to the third. What new colors are formed as the snow melts?

Place one cup of snow outdoors, one indoors, and one in the freezer. Observe what happens during the day. Why are the results different?

These were created by jean warren.

Also, you can read books like "A Snowy Day" by Ezra Keats...or the Mitten by Jan Brett..

Answer 3

maybe you could read frosty the snowman like you planned and get cotton balls and let them make their own frosty.

Answer 4

Book: When it Starts to Snow, by Phyllis Gershator

it is a story about what animals do when it snows, then what a child does in contrast to the animals...after reading the story, ask the children what will they do when/if it begins to snow. Then do an art project, or, if you really want them to experience the feel of snow, let them feel ice that has been fluffed/ shaved in the blender. They could make snow cream! (mix fluffy ice and sweetened condensed milk.)

Answer 5

How about gluing 3 pieces of cotton onto the popsicle sticks and making their own snowmen!  You could supply felt cutouts of different hats, colored scarfs and let them pick and choose how to "dress" theirs!!

Answer 6

Shaved ice so they can feel cold?

Cotton ball snomen?

styrofoam sno ball fight?

Answer 7

they could decorate snowmans or they can make snow flakes

Answer 8

Maybe you could add something about the seasons? Snow falls in winter. This would make it educational.

Answer 9

Here is a bunch of winter themed activities

http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Winte...

http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/stm/winter_sites.h...

Probably not enough time to get this for your lesson or don't know if you have a budget but if you are in an area it doesn't actually snow this fake substitute snow is great and kids love it

http://www.sno-wonder.com/

http://www.vat19.com/dvds/instasnow.cfm

My favorite book is The Mitten about how all the animals in the snow climb into a mitten that a boy looses in the snow. I have had kids make their own paper mittens and color the animals and put each in as you are reading the story.

You could also do something with weather, how snow is made, unique snowflakes.. no two are the same just like no two kids are the same. Have them make snowflakes. cut them out or white chalk or paint on black or dark blue paper see how no two projects are the same.

Good luck.