Sample Weekly Lesson Plan Toddlers

Early Morning
Activities
Sample Weekly Lesson Plan
Toddlers
Area Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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Social Emotional
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Sensory
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Gross Motor
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Outdoor Activities
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Health & Nutrition
Children assist with simple morning tasks (opening the classroom).
Children participate in prepping activities for the day.
Open exploration of the classroom.
Hide and Seek in large cardboard boxes.
Sing “Where is Katy” song with children’s pictures.
Take pictures for scrap-book: the process of washing, mashing and eating mash potatoes.
Teachers will take pictures of children involved with the different steps of mashing potatoes.
Rub shaving cream on
tabletops.
Wash/scrub potatoes for
food activity
Teachers encourage
children to touch the
shaving cream and talk
about its sensory
properties.
Move to music with
streamers.
Teachers encourage and
model large muscle
movements such as up
and down.
Explore different textured
balls.
Teacher will have
different textured balls
for children to explore,
describing the texture
(soft, rough, sticky, etc.).
Mash potatoes with
mashers.
Teachers will involve
children in the process of
cooking and setting up
materials for mashing
potatoes. Teachers will
model using mashers.
Rub shaving cream on
tabletops.
Explore oatmeal – dump
and scoop with cups.
Move through large
wooden shapes.
Teachers assist as
needed.
Run and yell through tunnels – weather permitted. Discuss changes in weather.
Teachers draw attention to physical changes in environment – wet, cold, windy, etc.
Eat healthy foods for snacks – bananas and mash potatoes.
Explore different textured
balls.
Throw different sized
bean bags into baskets.
Wash plastic balls in
soapy water tubs.
Teacher will invite
children to place balls
inside the tubs to wash.
Move bodies on riding
toys in the classroom.
Teachers bring in
outdoor scooter, push
and play toys from
outside.

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Math/Cognition
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Literacy
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Music & Movement
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Fine Motor
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Rest Activities
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Afternoon Activities
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Teachers discuss the foods and nutrition as they eat.
Fit various-sized tubes
inside boxes with holes.
Stuff stuffed animals in
and out of hanging
pockets.
Read new classroom books with caregivers.
Sing songs with finger and stick puppets.
Label familiar pictures under flaps.
Select appropriate books to read in classroom and read to a group of children.
Teachers encourage children to label pictures under flaps.
Dance and move to music with new tambourines.
Drum on large buckets and coffee cans.
Play music instruments.
Teacher participates in music and movement activities with children.
Pour and dump oatmeal
in large sensory tables
using measuring cups
and buckets.
Begin to paint with
watercolors and small
brushes.
Teachers direct children
to paint on the paper.
Quiet tubs toys on rest mats.
Read books with caregivers.
Explore water in child sink.
Assist teachers with rest-time clean up tasks – folding laundry – sorting laundry in drawers, washing chairs, etc.
Count 1, 2, 3 as we
jump from small
stools.
Continue pouring and
dumping oatmeal in
tubs.
Wash chairs with
soapy sponges.
Continue pouring and
dumping oatmeal in
tubs.
Draw on butcher paper
with jumbo crayons.
Hammer pegs into
Styrofoam blocks.
Crawl in and out of
tubs filled with balls.
Contact paper collage
with shredded paper.
Contact paper collage
with shredded paper.
Explore toys stored in
hall cupboard.