1 Ilse Martinez CD 258

Curriculum Plan
Topic/Title of Lesson- Decorate my Arms Focused Domain- Creative Arts

Goal: Children express their creativity. Objective: Children will draw an Octopus and decorate it how they like. Procedure: Step 1- Cut long pieces of construction paper, eight for each child. Step 2- Have children draw a big circle to represent the octopus body. Step 3Now, tell children to decorate their octopus with any colors they want. Step 4After they are done coloring, children can now cut their octopus out. Step 5Children can now pick out 8 pieces of construction paper to represent the arms. Step 6- Have children glue the arm onto the side that it not colored. Step 7- Now children can glue some wiggly eyes on the color side of the octopus. Step 8- Number the octopus arms from 1-8. Step 9- Have children glue one cereal on the arm number 1, two cereals on arm number 2 and so on. Advanced Preparation: Cut the pieces of paper representing the arms beforehand. List Materials: Paper, scissors, glue, crayons, cereal, marker, wiggly eyes, and construction paper. Developmental Benefits: Creativity, fine motor, cognitive, social, math and language. Future Plans: Have children name the body parts in an octopus. Student Learning Outcomes: The developmental benefits that are involved in the Octopus activity are, fine motor skills, math skills, social skills, language skills, and cognitive skills. They are enhancing their fine motor skills by coloring, cutting the octopus, and gluing the eyes and the cereal. Math skills are involved because they are learning their numbers from 1-8. They are gluing one cereal on the number one, two cereals on the number two and so on. This activity was also a social activity because some of the children were helping out the children that needed help and they were working together. The activity involves language skills because they listened to the directions of the activity and they were also talking about the octopus. It involves cognitive skills because the children had to use eye hand coordination to glue, and cut. Also creativity because they get to decorate the octopus how they want to. Transition Plan: Puzzle on sea animals.

Ilse Martinez CD 258

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Topic/Title of Lesson- Feel My Spikes Focused Domain- Creative Arts

Goal: Enhancing fine motor skills. Objective: Children will be putting together a starfish by drawing, cutting, and gluing. Procedure: Step 1- Place a toy starfish on the table and tell children to look at it. Step 2- Give each child paper and a pencil. Step 3- Have the children use their creativity to draw a starfish. Step 4- Have children cut out the starfish they just drew. Step 5- Crush some Cereal to represent the spikes in the starfish. Step 6- Have children glue the crush cereal onto the starfish. Advanced Preparation: Crush the cereal beforehand. Also, buy a starfish toy. List Materials: Crush cereal, plastic bag, scissors, paper, pencils, and glue. Developmental Benefits: Creativity, fine motor skills, social skills, and language skills. Future Plans: Have children make a more complicated sea animal. Student Learning Outcomes: The developmental benefits that were involved in the starfish activity were cognitive skills, fine motor skills, social skills, and language skills. It involved cognitive skills because the children had to get the concept of looking at a starfish and try to draw it. Fine motor skills were involved because they had to cut their starfish out and glue the cereal onto the starfish to represent the spikes. Again, it became social and language activity because the children started talking to one another and some started telling the other children how they should put glue on their starfish. Its also creativity because they made their starfish however they saw it. Transition Plan: A puzzle on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Title of Lesson- I Can Name Sea Turtle Body Parts Focused Domain- Creative Arts

Goal: Understand the body parts of a turtle. Objective: Children will name the body part of a turtle by making their own turtle. Procedure: Step 1- Go over the body parts of a sea turtle with the children. Step 2- Give each child a bowl. Step 3- Have construction paper, glue, paint, and wiggly eyes at reach. Step 4- Make sure each child is wearing a protective gear paint suit. Step 5- have children paint the back of the bowl green. Step 6- After paint has dried off, have children paint brown spots on the turtle. Step 7- While paint is drying, have children use construction paper to make a head, tail, and legs. Step 8- Children will now glue wiggly eyes to the head of the sea turtle. Step 9- After turtle is done drying, have the children glue the legs, tail and head on the turtles body. Step 10- Have the children show you each part of the turtles body. Advanced Preparation: Have all materials ready and go over a sea turtles body. List Materials: Brown and green paint, paint brushes, paint suits, glue, wiggly eyes, different color of construction paper and scissors. Developmental Benefits: Creativity, fine motor skills, social skills, language and cognitive skills. Future Plans: Have children write out the words of a sea turtles body part. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn creativity because they are expressing themselves. They are using their imagination on how to draw the body parts. They also learn fine motor skills be gluing all the pieces together and by painting. They learn social skills because they are interacting with children and sharing their ideas together. They learn language skills because they are telling you the parts of a sea turtle. They learn cognitive skills because they have to use their brain to go back and remember the body parts of a sea turtle. Transition Plan: A book on sea turtles.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Jellyfish Fun Focused Domain- Creative Arts

Goal: Understand a Jellyfish as a whole. Objective: Children will make a jellyfish and name the body parts. Procedure: Step 1- Show children the body parts of a jelly fish and go over them. Step 2- Have children fold in half a cupcake liner to represent the jellyfishs body. Step 3- Have children color the jellyfish any way they would like. Step 4- Have children glue wiggly eyes onto the jellyfish. Step 5- Cut out pieces of ribbon to represent the jellyfish tentacles. Step 6- Have children glue as many strings of ribbons inside the folded part of the cupcake liner as they would like. Step 7- Tell children to name some of the body parts. Advanced Preparation: Cut out enough pieces of ribbon. List Materials: Cupcake liners, wiggly eyes, crayons, marker, ribbon, scissors, and glue. Developmental Benefits: Creativity, Fine motor skills, social skills, cognitive, and language. Future Plans: Have the children learn a harder sea animals body parts. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn creativity because they decorate the jellyfish how they like. They learn fine motor skills by coloring, gluing and pasting the cereal and ribbon. They learn social skills because they talk with other children and help each other out. It involves cognitive skills because they have to remember the body parts of the jellyfish. It also involves language because they have to listen to the body parts of the jelly fish and talk about it as well. Transition Plan: Look at the poster of the jellyfishs body parts.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Under the Sea I See Focused Domain- Creative Arts

Goal: Understand the life under the sea. Objective: Children will create their own sea on a plate with sea animals, seaweed and coral. Procedure: Step 1- Give each child a paper plate. Step 2- Lay out various colors of construction paper and crayons, markers, color pencils on table. Step 3Have children color the plate blue to represent the water in the sea. Step 4Have children draw different kinds of sea animals on the construction paper. If they want they may use coloring tools to color animals. Step 5- Have children cut out the sea animals. Step 6- Have children draw sea weed, and coral as well. Step 7- Have children glue their sea animals and coral onto their plate how they would like. Advanced Preparation: Read the book- Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck List Materials: Paper plate, coloring tools, glue, scissors, pencils, and construction paper. Developmental Benefits: Creativity, Fine motor skills, Social skills, Cognitive, and Language. Future Plans: Have the children make a sea as a group project. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn creativity because they are able to draw what they like with no help. They can express themselves by using the colors they liked. They learn fine motor skills by gluing, pasting, cutting coloring their sea animals. It became social because they started looking at their classmates ideas and helping each other on what to draw. They learn cognitive because they have to remember the animals in the book and how they looked. It involves language because they had to listen to the book and talk about the book. Transition Plan: Read the book Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Dive Under the Sea with Me! Focused Domain- Aesthetic

Goal: Understand sea life. Objective: Children will dive in the sea to sea real like sea creatures. Procedure: Step 1- Cut realistic sea animals from books or computer. Step 2Glue the animals onto a clear shower curtain. Step 3- Hang the shower curtain on a pole. Step 4- Let children dive into the sea to see all the different animals. Note- You can also put blue paper on walls to make it seem like a more under the sea theme. Advanced Preparation: Cut and glue the pictures of sea animals onto the clear curtain before this activity. List Materials: Scissors, a clear curtain, a pole, and books of sea animals, computer, and printer. Developmental Benefits: Aesthetic, social, language, and cognitive. Future Plans: You can have children discuss what they think about how the sea animals look like. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn aesthetic skills because they use their imagination to pretend play. They learn social skills because they are interacting with other children. They learn language skills because they are using their words to express how they feel. They are learning cognitive skills because they have to think of a way of how they are going to dive into the sea. Transition Plan: Sing the song The Underwater Song by Matthew J. Dorman

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Sea Animal Mask Focused Domain- Aesthetic

Goal: Understand a sea animal. Objective: Children will pretend to be a sea animal using mask. Procedure: Step 1- Cut out different kinds of sea animals big enough to cover face. Step 2- Glue the sea animals on sturdy popsicle sticks. Step 3- Let children pretend they are that sea animal. Advanced Preparation: Have the mask ready to use. List Materials: Popsicle sticks, glue, computer, and printer. Developmental Benefits: Aesthetic, social and language skills. Future Plans: Have children make their own sea animal mask. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn aesthetic domain because they are using their imagination to pretend to be a certain sea animal. They learn social skills because they are playing with other children. They are learning language skills because they are speaking in complete sentences and using words and phrases. Transition Plan: Read a book on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Sea Food Restaurant Focused Domain- Aesthetic

Goal: Understand the meaning of a restaurant. Objective: Children will pretend play to be in a restaurant. Procedure: Step 1- Have pretend sea food available. Step 2- Have one child be a waiter. Step 3- Some children can be the clients in a restaurant. Step 4Children will play and pretend they are eating sea food. Advanced Preparation: Have pretend sea food available. List Materials: Pretend sea food Developmental Benefits: Aesthetic, social, cognitive, and language. Future Plans: Children can predict what sea food tastes like. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn aesthetic because they are using their imagination to pretend they are in a restaurant. They are learning social skills because they are interacting with other children. They are learning cognitive skills because they are probably observing the food. They are learning language skills because they are using phrases and talking to one another. Transition Plan: Do a puzzle on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Under the Sea Focused Domain- Aesthetic

Goal: Understand life under the sea. Objective: Children will pretend to live under the sea using props. Procedure: Step 1- Cut out different kinds of sea animals big enough to cover face. Step 2- Glue the sea animals on sturdy popsicle sticks. Step 3- Cover walls with blue paper to represent water. Step 4- Place fake sea weed and coral around the area. Step 5- Have children play around and act like the sea animal they are. They can go around and swim how the animal swim and go find food their sea animal eats. Advanced Preparation: Have the mask ready and the blue water, coral, sea weed, and food ready. List Materials: Blue butcher paper, fake sea weed, coral, glue, popsicle sticks, computer, and printer. Developmental Benefits: Aesthetic, social, language, and cognitive. Future Plans: Have children be different kind of animals. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn aesthetic because they are using their imagination to live under the sea. They learn social skills because they playing with other children. They are learning language skills because they are using their words and saying phrases. They are learning cognitive skills because they have to think back to how sea animals live. Transition Plan: Read a book on sea animals.

10 Curriculum Plan Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson-Rainbow Fish Puppet Show Focused Domain- Language Domain

Goal: Show comprehension of a story by re-enacting a story. Objective: Have children use puppets to re-enact the story of Rainbow Fish by: Marcus
Pfister. Procedure: Step 1- Make a Rainbow Fish, an Octopus, a Starfish, and about 3 regular Fishes puppets. Step 2- You can make these using sticks to hold up the puppet and a paper lunch bag for the Octopus puppet by stuffing the bag with tissue half way and with a rubber band tie the bag. Step 3- Make cuts on the bag so you can end up with 8 legs. Then glue some googly eyes and a mouth to finish the octopus. Step 4- For the fishes you can draw a fish and cut it out and paste it on the stick. For Rainbow fish draw a fish and make shiny scales on it. Step 5- For the Starfish, do the same as the fishes, draw it and paste a stick to it. Step 6- Read the story Rainbow Fish multiple times before doing the puppet show with the children. Step 7- Ask children questions about the story or have a discussion of the story. For example, ask Why was Rainbow Fish sad in the middle of the story? Step 8- Select children who want to participate to be in the puppet show. Make sure to have someone be Rainbow Fish, the octopus, the starfish, and the other fishes in the story that want a shiny scale. Have the rest the class be the audience. You can do this more than once so that every child gets a turn to be in the puppet show and in the audience as well. Advanced Preparation: Have all puppets ready and made. Read the story Rainbow Fish multiple times before doing this show. Also make sure you have done a discussion of this story multiple times as well. List Materials: Paper lunch bag, googly eyes, large popsicle sticks, copy paper, scissors, a rubber band, tissue, glue, markers, and crayons. Developmental Benefits: Social skills, listening skills, fine motor skills, language skills, and emotional skills. Future Plans: Have children create their own puppets and have them do a puppet show for another story. Student Learning Outcomes: They are learning social skills because they are interacting with other children. Listening skills because they are listening to directions and when it is their turn to play their role. Fine motor skills because children are holding the stick to the puppet, so they are holding a grasp of the stick. Language skills because during your discussion you will questions being asked. Emotional skills because you can express different emotions being targeted in the story. Transition Plan: Have children sing a song about fishes.

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Curriculum Plan
Ilse Martinez CD 258 March 31, 2014

Topic/Title of Lesson- Clap Sea Animals Syllables with me! Focused Domain- Language Domain

Goal: Have children comprehend syllables. Objective: Have children clap syllables in sea animals names. Procedure- Step 1- Ask children to listen to you clap a sea animal syllable name. For example, Dolphin would be clapping in Dol, pause and clap in Phin. Step 2- Do a couple more examples. Step 3- Ask children to name a sea animal and clap the syllables. Keep doing this to for children can understand syllables. Advanced Preparation: Have some sea animals in mind to clap. Introduce sea animals to children as well. List Materials: None Developmental Benefits: Listening skills, language skills, cognitive skills, and social skills. Future Plans: Have children clap other syllables and eventually name the number of syllables in a word. Student Learning Outcomes: They are learning listening skills because they are listening to the word and when to clap. Language skills because they are suggesting sea animals. Cognitive skills because they are thinking of animals that are from the sea. Social skills because they are participating and interacting with the class. Transition Plan: Read a poem on Sea Animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Book: Commotion in the Ocean Focused Domain- Language

Goal: Understand what the story is about. Objective: Children will answer questions about the story. Procedure: Step 1- Explain to the children what an Author and an Illustrator is. Step 2- Read the book Commotion in the Ocean to the children. Remember to ask questions throughout the story. While youre reading make sure to use your finger to read along. Step 3- After youve read the story ask each child a different question. Since a lot of sea animals are mentioned, you can ask each child a question about a specific sea animal. Advanced Preparation: Buy the book Commotion in the Ocean. List Materials: Book Commotion in the Ocean Developmental Benefits: Language, Cognitive, Communication skills Future Plans: The book also has some rhyming words so you can have the children learn rhyming words. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn language skills because they are listening to the story, seeing print appreciation, they are also speaking about the book. They also learn cognitive skills because they are using their brain to remember what happened in the story with each character. They are learning communication skills because they are talking about the characters. Transition Plan: Do a puzzle about sea animals in the ocean.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Find My Tail Focused Domain- Language

Goal: Recognition of uppercase and lowercase letters. Objective: Matching uppercase letters to their corresponding lowercase letter. Procedure: Step 1- In a white blank paper write out the alphabet in uppercase and lowercase letters. Make sure to make them big enough for the children can see them. Step2- Cut the letters in squares. Step 3- On the foam sheets draw a C and connect the ends with a line that will represent the body of the fish. Then draw a trapezoid that will represent the tail of the fish. Make sure to make 26 of each shape Step 4- Cut out all of these shapes. Step 5- Now glue all the uppercase letters on the body of the fish and glue all the lowercase letters to the tail of the fish. Step 6- Have one child pick an uppercase letter. Step 7- Now have that child find the lowercase letter that matches with the uppercase letter. Step 8- Continue doing this, rotating so that every child gets a turn and make sure to go through all the letters. Advanced Preparation: Make your body and tails beforehand. List Materials: Foam sheets, glue, paper, marker, and scissors Developmental Benefits: Language, Social, Cognitive, and Physical Future Plans: You can make them say the sound of the letter they pick. Student Learning Outcomes: They learn language because they are learning the alphabet. They are also seeing the uppercase and lowercase of the letter. They are learning social skills because they interact with the other children and help each other out. They learn cognitive skills because they learn math skills if you ask them to count how many fishes they have. Also because they have to use their brain to try and find the lowercase letter. They are learning physical fine motor skills because they are picking up the letters with their fingers. Transition Plan: Read the poem about a fish.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Catch the Fish Focused Domain- Physical

Goal: Understand their colors. Objective: Children will use a homemade fishing pole to catch certain color fishes. Procedure: Step 1- Using a wooden spoon, tie about 1 feet of string at the end of the spoon. Step 2- Attach a magnet to the end of the sting using super glue. Step 3- Using construction paper, cut and laminate different color of fishes. Step 4- Punch hole each fish. Step 5- On the hole, clip a paper clip onto it. Step 6- Spread all the fishes on the ground. Step 7- Have children try and catch a red fish, a blue fish, and a yellow fish and so on. Advanced Preparation: Cut and laminate all the fishes beforehand. List Materials: Wooden spoon, string, magnets, super glue, construction paper, scissors, laminated paper, marker and scissors. Developmental Benefits: Large motor skills, math skills, social skills, and language skills. Future Plans: Have children fish different sizes of fish. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn large motor skills by throwing the sting onto the water where the fishes are at. They learn math skills because you are telling them to catch a red fish. They learn social skills because they are looking around to see how their friends are doing. They are learning language skills because they are telling you the color of the fish. Transition Plan: Read the poem Fish.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Count the Sea Animals Focused Domain- Cognitive

Goal: Learn numbers 1-10. Objective: Children will place the correct number of sea animals in the corresponding cup. Procedure: Step1- Gather sea animals counters and cups as well. Step 2- With a marker write the number 1 on the first cup, 2 on the second cup and so on. Step 3- Have children place one sea animal on the number one cup, two sea animals on the number two cup, and so on. Advanced Preparation: Have the cups numbered already and enough sea animals at reach. List Materials: Different type of sea animal counters, cups, and markers. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, fine motor skills, social skills and math skills. Future Plans: Have children learn numbers up to 15. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills because they have to use their brain to recognize the number and how many sea animals go in that certain cup. They learn fine motor skills because they are picking up the sea animals and placing them on the cup. They are learning social skills because they start helping their classmates. They learn math skills because at the end of this activity they will be able to count to 10. Transition Plan: Do a finger play; Five Little Fishes.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258

Topic/Title of Lesson- Match Me Up

Focused Domain- Cognitive

Goal: Recognize identical sea animals. Objective: Have children pick the two cards facing down to find the identical animals. Procedure: Step 1- Print out medium sizes of different sea animals. Make sure to have two of each sea animal. Step 2- Cut out and laminate the sea animals. Step 3- Place the sea animals facing down on the table. Step 4- Have children pick a card and guess where the identical sea animal is at by picking another card. Step 5- keep playing this until all sea animals are found. Advanced Preparation: Have the different sea animals cut and laminated before you start the activity. List Materials: Scissors, laminated paper a computer, and printer. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, fine motor skills, social skills, and math skills. Future Plans: Have children play this activity using more sea animals, or maybe three identical sea animals. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills because they have to remember where each sea animal is at. They learn fine motor skills because they are picking up the cards. They learn social skills because they are interacting with children, helping and getting help from other children. They learn math skills because they are matching two of the same sea animals. Transition Plan: Do a sea animal puzzle.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Sort the Dolphin Focused Domain- Cognitive

Goal: Understand different sizes and colors. Objective: Children will sort dolphins by size and color. Procedure: Step 1- On different color construction paper cut out a small dolphin. Make sure to make about 10 small dolphins. Step 2- Using a different color of construction paper previous to the first one cut out about 10 medium dolphins. Step 3- On a different color of construction paper cut out large sizes of dolphins. Step 4- Mix them up all together. Step 5- Have children sort the dolphins by the sizes small, medium, and large. Keep doing this until you see the child understood the concept. Advanced Preparation: Cut all the sizes of the dolphins beforehand. List Materials: Construction paper, scissors, and a marker. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive skills, social skills, and math skills. Future Plans: Have children sort dolphins of the same color just different sizes. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills because they have to use their brain to know where each dolphin fit into. They learn social skills because they might be helping their friends, or their friends might be helping them. They also learn math skills because they are sorting by color and size. Transition Plan: Sing the song Dolphin in the Sea (Unknown author).

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Floating Sea Animals Focused Domain- Physical- Fine Motor

Goal: Understand floating objects. Objective: Children will play and experiment with floating sea animals. Procedure: Step 1- In the water table put floatable sea animals. Step 2- Children will play with the sea animals. Encourage children to try and push the sea animals down to see what happens. Advanced Preparation: Place the floatable sea animals in the water before you do this activity. List Materials: Floatable sea animals, and water table. Developmental Benefits: Physical- fine motor skills, social, cognitive, and language. Future Plans: Have children play with sea animals in the sand table. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are using their hands to play with the animals. They learn social skills because there are other children around them playing in the water table as well. They learn cognitive skills because they start learning that these sea animals float. They learn language skills because they are using their words. Transition Plan: Do a puzzle on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Rubber Sea Animals Focused Domain- Physical- Fine Motor Skills

Goal: Understand the way sea animals look. Objective: Children will play with rubber sea animals in the sand table. Procedure: Step 1- Place rubber sea animals on the sand table. Step 2- Children can now play with the rubber sea animals. Encourage the children to cover the animals in sand. Advanced Preparation: Place the rubber sea animals in the sand table before this activity. List Materials: Rubber sea animals, and a sand table. Developmental Benefits: Physical- fine motor skills, social, cognitive, and language. Future Plans: Have children play with floating sea animals in the water table Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are using their hands to play with the rubber sea animals. They are learning social skills because they are interacting with other children. They are learning cognitive skills because they are finding out you can hind the sea animals with the sand. They are learning language skills because they are talking to one another. Transition Plan: Read a book on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Sea Life Focused Domain- Physical- Fine Motor Skills

Goal: Understand the life in the sea. Objective: Children will play in the water table with sea animals. Procedure: Step 1- Color the water blue. Step 2- Place Sea animals in the water. Step 3- Place fishing nets and boats in the water. Step 4- Children can now play in the water. Advanced Preparation: Have the water colored, sea animals, fish nets, and boats in the water table before you do this activity. List Materials: Water table, food coloring, sea animals, fish nets, and boats. Developmental Benefits: Fine motor skills, social, language, and cognitive. Future Plans: Have children make their own sea animal. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are using their hands to play in the water table. They learn social skills because they are playing with their classmates. They learn language skills because they are using their words. They learn cognitive skills because they are learning how sea animals live underwater. Transition Plan: Read a book about sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Changing Color Octopus Focused Domain- Cognitive

Goal: Understand how an octopus changes colors. Objective: Children will have a discussion octopus changing colors and then blend the octopus to its blended color. Procedure: Step 1- Have a discussion with the children on how an octopus changes color when it wants to blend into their surroundings. Step 2- Have children pick a colored octopus. Step 3- Have children find a background where their octopus can blend in. Advanced Preparation: Have enough octopuses to each child. List Materials: Different color of octopuses. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, large and fine motor skills, social and language skills. Future Plans: Learn the body parts of an octopus. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills because they are having a discussion and because they have to find a place to blend their sea animal. They learn large motor skills by walking around the classroom to find a place to blend their octopus. They learn fine motor skills because they are picking up an octopus. They learn social skills because they can help others. They learn language skills because during the discussion they are using complete sentences. Transition Plan: Finger play- Once I Saw an Octopus.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Observe the Fish Focused Domain- Cognitive

Goal: Understand how a Fish looks its texture. Objective: Children will observe the fish using a magnified glass and feel the fish. Procedure: Step 1- Have a medium size fish in the center of the table. Step 2Give a magnify glass to each child. Step 3- Have each children observe the fish and feel the fish. Step 4- Talk about how it felt and how it looked. Advanced Preparation: Have a fish in a bowl ready. List Materials: Fish in a bowl, and magnify glasses. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, social and language. Future Plans: Have children observed tiny sea animals. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills because they are observing and coming up with ways the fish looks, and feels. They learn social skills because they are interacting with children and sharing information with each other. They learn language skills because they are following directions and speaking and using complete sentences. Transition Plan: Do a puzzle of a fish.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- What do Sea Animals Need to Live? Focused Domain- Cognitive

Goal: Understand sea animals environment. Objective: Children will predict sea animals environment and food they eat. Procedure: Step 1- Children will predict where sea animals live. Do they live in regular or salt water? Step 2- Children will predict what kind of food do sea animals eat. Step 3- Children can continue having this discussion on sea animals for a while. Make sure you write down these predictions on a white board. Advanced Preparation: Introduce sea animals to children. List Materials: White boards, dry erase marker, and eraser. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, social, and language. Future Plans: Have a discussion on a specific sea animal. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills because they are predicting where a sea animal lives, what they eat and so on. They are learning social skills because the whole class is involved and they share their answers. They are learning language skills because they are listening to their classmates, following directions and using complete sentences. Transition Plan: Sing the song Under the Sea by Peter Weatherall.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- O for Octopus Focused Domain- Physical- fine motor

Goal: Understand the letter O. Objective: Children will make an octopus in the shape of an O. Procedure: Step 1- Give children paper and pencil. Step 2- Have children draw a letter big letter O and draw a small circle inside the big O. Step 3- Have children cut the Big O and you can cut the small circle inside the letter O. Step 4- Children can glue wiggly eyes onto their letter O octopus. Advanced Preparation: Have all materials ready. Introduce the letter O. List Materials: Paper, pencil, scissors, glue and wiggly eyes. Developmental Benefits: Fine motor skills, social, language, and cognitive. Future Plans: Have children work on another letter. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are cutting and letter O and pasting wiggly eyes om the letter. They learn social skills because they are interacting with the children. They learn language because they are listening to directions and talking during the process as well. They also learn cognitive skills because they have to think back on how the letter O looks like. Transition Plan: Sing an Octopus song.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Label the Dolphin Focused Domain- Cognitive

Goal: Understand print awareness. Objective: Children will point to each part of the dolphin and name it and write. Procedure: Step 1- Give each child a picture of a dolphin. Step 2- Have children point to a body part and name it. Step 3- have child write the word down by showing them how to write the word. Step 4- Hang these pictures up to show children how writing is important. Advanced Preparation: Have the pictures of the dolphin ready to pass out. List Materials: Picture of dolphin, pencil, dry erase marker, eraser, and white board. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, fine motor, language, and social. Future Plans: Have children label a different animal. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills because they are thinking on how each part is called. They learn fine motor skills because they are writing the words. They are learning eye hand coordination by looking at how they are writing. They are learning language by speaking with others. They learn social skills by interacting with their classmates. Transition Plan: Do a puzzle on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Write My Name Focused Domain- Physical- Fine Motor

Goal: Learn fine motor skills. Objective: Children will learn fine motor skills by writing their name on a sea animal creature. Procedure: Step 1- Print and cut out traceable sea animal creatures. Step 2Trace and cut the sea animals onto light color construction paper. Step 3- Give each child a sea animal creature and a pencil. Step 4- Help the child write his name by showing him how to write his name in a white board. Make sure to write one letter at a time. Step 5- Have the child write his name now on his own on the sea animal creature. Advanced Preparation: Print, cut, trace and cut the sea animals before you do this activity. List Materials: Construction paper, pencil, marker, scissors, computer, and printer. Developmental Benefits: Fine motor skills, language and cognitive skills. Future Plans: Children can write other words once they can write their own name. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are holding the pencil and pressing to write their name. They also learn eye- tohand coordination because they look from the pencil to where to write. They also learn language because they are following directions, and repeating letter after letter with you. They also learn cognitive skills because they need to know what letter comes first and remember how the letters look like. Transition Plan: Have children read a book on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Printed Sea Animal Word Card Focused Domain- Physical- fine motor

Goal: Expand the childrens vocabulary. Objective: Have children practice writing sea animal names. Procedure: Step 1- Print and cut out different sea animals names with the picture of the sea animal next to the name. Step 2- Laminate the words. Step 3Hang these words in the writing center. Step 4- Children can now go and practice writing sea animal names. Advanced Preparation: Have the sea animal laminated cards ready and hung up. List Materials: Laminated paper, computer, printer, writing utensils, and paper. Developmental Benefits: Fine motor skills, language, and cognitive skills. Future Plans: Have children write the sea animal names without showing the name just the picture. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are holding the pencil and pressing to write their name. They also learn eye- tohand coordination because they look from the pencil to where to write. They also learn language because they are learning new words. They are learning cognitive skills because they need to know what letter comes first and remember how the letters look like. Transition Plan: Do a puzzle on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Sea Animal Puzzle Focused Domain- Fine Motor

Goal: Expand fine motor skills. Objective: Children will expand their fine motor skills by doing a puzzle. Procedure: Step 1- Get different kind of sea animal puzzles. Step 2- Place these puzzles in the manipulative area. Step 3- Encourage the children to fix these puzzles. Advanced Preparation: Get the sea animal puzzles and place them in the manipulative area before class. List Materials: Different sea animal puzzles. Developmental Benefits: Fine motor, cognitive, social and language. Future Plans: Have children do more complicated puzzles. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are picking up the pieces in the puzzle. They are learning cognitive skills because they are trying to remember where each piece goes and how they puzzle looks. Also they are trying to fit pieces together. It becomes social because children can help each other out. They also learn language because they could use their words if they need help. Transition Plan: Read a poem about sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Large Sea Animals Focused Domain- Fine Motor

Goal: Introduce different ways to classify. Objective: Children will sort sea animals by color and size. Procedure: Step 1- Get different sizes and colors of sea animals. Step 2- Have them in the manipulative area for children can sort them. Step 3- Encourage children to sort the sea animals by color and by size. Advanced Preparation: Have the sea animals ready in the manipulative area before class. List Materials: Different color and sizes of sea animals. Developmental Benefits: Fine motor, math skills, cognitive and language. Future Plans: Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are picking up the different sizes and colors of sea animals. They learn math skills because they are classifying objects. They learn cognitive skills because they have to think about where each sea animal goes. They learn language because they are listening to directions and speaking too. Transition Plan: Read a story on sea animals.

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Ilse Martinez CD 258 Topic/Title of Lesson- Shark Sizes Focused Domain- Fine Motor

Goal: Introduce classifying objects. Objective: Children will sort different sizes of sharks. Procedure: Step 1- Get different sizes of sharks. Step 2- Have them in the manipulative area for children can sort the sharks. Step 3- Encourage children to sort the sharks. Advanced Preparation: Have the sharks in the manipulative area before class. List Materials: Different sizes of sharks. Developmental Benefits: Fine motor, math skills, cognitive and language. Future Plans: Have children sort different objects. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn fine motor skills because they are picking up the different sizes of sharks. They learn math skills because they are classifying objects. They learn cognitive skills because they have to think about where each shark goes. They learn language because they are listening to directions and speaking too. Transition Plan: Read a story on sea animals.

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Topic/Title of Lesson- Shedd Aquarium Field Trip Focused Domain- Cognitive

Goal: Get an understanding of how sea animals live. Objective: Children will go on a field trip and observe how sea animals live under water. Procedure: Step 1- Make a flyer, permission slip, and letter to the parents to let them know about the field trip. Step 2- Make name tags for all students. Step 3Have enough chaperones for the field trip. Step 4- Take children to the Shedd Aquarium. Step 5- Help children observe the animals and tell them some facts about the animals. Advanced Preparation: Make flyer, permission slip, and letter to parents ahead of time. Also make the name tags ahead of time. List Materials: Paper, laminator, marker. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, social, language, and large motor. Future Plans: Children will draw something they saw in the field trip. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills by using their brain to understand how sea animals live. They learn social skills because they are in a field trip with their classmates and they are sharing ideas with each other. They learn language skills because they are speaking and using their words. They learn large motor skills because they are walking. Transition Plan: Sing a sea animal song.

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Topic/Title of Lesson- Octopus Hotdog Focused Domain- Fine motor

Goal: Understand how to make an Octopus. Objective: Make slits in a hotdog to represent an Octopus Procedure: Step 1- Get enough hotdogs for each child. Step 2- Give each child a plastic safety knife. Step 3- Have children make slits on the hotdog. Step 4You the teacher put the hot dogs in boiling water. Step 5- After hot dogs are ready, let children observe how it looks now. Advanced Preparation: Have all materials ready List Materials: Plastic safety knife, hotdogs, pot, and water. Developmental Benefits: Cognitive, fine motor, social, and language. Future Plans: Have children make an Octopus a different way. Student Learning Outcomes: Children learn cognitive skills because they have to think of how the slits make the octopus. They learn fine motor skills because they are making slits on the hot dogs. They learn social skills because they are talking and interacting with their classmates. They learn language skills because they are using their words to explain how the hot dog looks. Transition Plan: Read a poem on sea animals.