Develops an increasing capacity to pay attention, focus

Three Little PigsLesson Planner

TraditTihoenmael8Tales Week 1

Starting the Day • Develops responsive and reciprocal communication skills (B.4.e.)

• Begins to learn and internalize rules, routines, and directions (B.3.e.)

• Develops an increasing capacity to pay attention, focus, concentrate, and be involved (B.3.f.)

Language Development
• Shows interest in songs, rhymes, and stories (C.3.a.) • Develops a playful interest in repetitive sounds and words (rhythm,
rhyme, alliteration) (C.3.b.) • Demonstrates expressive language skills (C.1.d.)

■ The Three Little Pigs
■ Three Little Pigs
Puppet Story

■ Pig Nursery Rhymes

Cognitive Development • Develops and demonstrates the ability to remember and connect new
and known experiences and information (D.3.d.) • Develops the ability to make decisions and choose own materials (D.2.d.) • Makes things happen and watches for results and repeats actions (D.1.d.)

■ Photo Activity Cards
(14, 43)
■ This Little Pig
■ Story Sequence

■ Huff and Puff ■ Real and Make-Believe ■ Home Construction

Social Emotional Development • Increasingly understands non-verbal messages and makes non-verbal
requests (C.1.c.) • Understands and begins to use oral language for conversation and
communication (C.2.c.) • Develops an increasing ability to take another’s point of view and to
empathize with others (B.4.g.)

■ This Little Piggy

■ Packing

■ Oink

■ Farm Life

■ Huff-and-Puff Breathing

Physical Development • Develops an increasing ability to keep a steady beat through chants,
dances, and movement to rhythmic patterns (A.2.f.) • Develops control of large muscles for movement, navigation, and
balance (A.2.a.)

■ Pig Jig ■ Footprints ■ Pig Roll Over

■ Pig Tails in a Pail ■ Piggy Wiggy

Outdoor Play • Develops increasing ability to change positions
and move body from place to place (A.2.b.)
■ Here Comes the Wolf ■ Huff-and-Puff Bubbles ■ Pig Art

Learning Centers

■ Sensory
• Searches for missing or hidden objects (D.3.b.)

■ Pretend and Learn
• Uses imitation in pretend play to express creativity and imagination (D.4.b.)

■ Creativity Station
• Develops skill and confidence with processes of art, such as drawing, collage, painting, and constructing (D.5.a.)

■ Construction
• Demonstrates interest, curiosity, and eagerness in exploring the world around them (E.1.a.)

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The Three BearsLesson Planner

TraditTihoenmael8Tales Week 2

Starting the Day • Engages in positive relationships and interactions with adults (B.1.d.)

• Shows ability to cope with stress (B.3.a.)

• Develops an increasing awareness of the impact and consequences of their actions (B.3.c.)

Language Development
• Engages with stories and books (C.3.c.) • Develops increasing knowledge in syntax, meaning, and
vocabulary (C.1.f.) • Understands and begins to use oral language for conversation and
communication (C.2.c.)

■ The Three Bears
■ Going on a
Bear Hunt

■ Goldilocks Story
Pathway

Cognitive Development
• Matches items that go together (D.1.h.) • Learns and begins to use math concepts during daily routines and
experiences (D.2.g.) • Understands and begins to use oral language for conversation and
communication (C.2.c.)

■ Photo Activity Card
(44)
■ Bear Match Up
■ Chairs in Two Sizes

■ Building a Cottage ■ Goldilocks Puppets ■ Story Retell

Social Emotional Development • Develops responsive and reciprocal communication skills, such as
turn-taking (B.4.e.) • Applies knowledge to new situations (D.2.c.) • Develops small muscle control and coordination (A.3.b.)

■ Manners Matter ■ Bear Features ■ Bear Cave Getaway

■ Porridge Tasting ■ Goodnight Bears

Physical Development • Develops an increasing ability to keep a steady beat through chants,
dances, and movement to rhythmic patterns (A.2.f.) • • Coordinates eye and hand movements (A.3.c.) • • Moves body to achieve a goal (A.2.c.)

■ Teddy Bear,
Teddy Bear
■ Bear Claws
■ Seven Feet Tall

■ Bear Tricks ■ Bear Tracks ■ Goldilocks Says

Outdoor Play • Develops confidence with moving in space,
moving to rhythm, and playing near and with others (A.2.e.)
■ Balls for Bears
■ Neighborhood Stroll
■ Run Goldilocks

■ Math Learning
• Applies knowledge to new situations (D.2.c.)
]■ Creativity Station
• Develops skill and confidence with processes of art, such as drawing, collage, painting, and constructing (D.4.a.)

Centers ■ Pretend and Learn
• Uses imitation in pretend play to express creativity and imagination (D.4.b.)
■ Science
• Makes things happen and watches for results and repeats actions (D.1.d.)

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Lesson Planner Three Billy Goats Gruff

TraditTihoenmael8Tales Week 3

Starting the Day • Develops increasing ability to identify own emotional responses (B.2.g.)

• Begins to learn and internalize rules, routines, and directions (B.3.e.)

• Develops language skills in structured language contexts, such as singing, storytelling, and reenacting (C.2.d.)

Language Development

• Develops language skills in structured language contexts, such as through books, finger plays, singing, storytelling, and reenacting (C.2.d.)
• Develops an expectation that words, books, and pictures can amuse, delight, comfort, inform and excite (C.3.d.)

■ Three Billy
Goats Gruff

■ Two Silly Goats

■ It’s So Hard to
Be a Troll

Cognitive Development • Develops the attitude of an “explorer”—competent, confident learner

who asks questions and makes discoveries (D.1.e.)

• Develops an increasing ability to keep a steady beat through chants,

dances, and movement to rhythmic patterns (A.2.f.)

• Shows imagination, creativity, and uses a variety of strategies to solve

problems (D.2.b.)

■ Photo Activity Card ■ Drum Beats

(45)
■ Small-to-Large Goats

■ Older and
Younger Siblings

■ Up-Close Look

■ Another Way?

Social Emotional Development • Developsconfidenceandabilitytoexpressemotionalneeds
without fear (B.1.f.) • Develops emerging skills in caring and cooperation (B.4.f.) • Recognizes and responds to the feelings and emotions of others
and begins to show concern (B.4.c.)

■ Being Afraid

■ Purple Troll Shakes

■ Kindness Counts

■ Trip, Trap!

Physical Development • Demonstrates increasing balance, stability, control, and
coordination (A.2.a.) • Develops control of small muscles for manipulation and exploration
(A.3.b.)

■ Troll Shadows ■ Troll Stroll ■ Play Dough Trolls

■ Feed the Goat ■ Walking the Line ■ The Troll on the
Bridge

Outdoor Play • Develops control of large muscles for movement,
navigation, and balance (A.2.a.)
■ Walk Like a Goat ■ Butt the Ball ■ Troll Eye Toss

■ Science Learning
• Uses senses to investigate environment to discover what objects and people do, how things work, and how they can make things happen (D.1.b.)
■ Creativity Station
• Develops skill and confidence with processes of art, such as drawing, collage, painting, and constructing (D.5.a.)

Centers ■ Pretend and Learn
• Uses objects in new ways or in pretend play (D.4.a.)
■ Math
• Learns and begins to use math concepts during daily routines and experiences (D.2.g.)

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The Gingerbread MLanesson Planner
Starting the Day • Develops an increasing capacity to pay attention, focus, concentrate, and be involved (B.2.f.)
• Develops responsive and reciprocal communication skills, such as turn-taking (B.4.e.) • Shows ability to cope with stress (B.3.a.)

TraditTihoenmael8Tales Week 4

Language Development • Develops communication skills for increasingly complex
purposes, such as reasoning (C.2.e.) • Engages with stories and books (C.3.c.) • Understands and begins to use oral language for conversation
and communication (C.2.c.)

■ The Gingerbread Man
■ The Runaway
Cookie Parade

■ Smart Cookie’s
Best Friend

Social Emotional Development • Uses senses to investigate environment to discover what objects and
people do, how things work, and how they can make things happen (D.1.b.) • Establishes secure relationships with primary caregivers (B.1.a.)

■ Gingerbread Kids ■ Gingerbread Bake ■ Patience

■ Gingerbread
Man Puzzles
■ Who Took the
Cookies?

Cognitive Development • Develops the ability to make decisions and choose own materials (D.2.d.)

• Develops and demonstrates the ability to remember known information

(D.3.d.)

• Uses senses to investigate environment to discover what objects and

people do, how things work, and how they can make things happen

(D.1.b.)

■ Photo Activity Cards ■ Gingerbread Man Count

(12, 46)
■ Dress the
Gingerbread Man

■ Sniff and Tell ■ Tactile Gingerbread Man

■ Story Retell and
Sequence

Physical Development • Develops an increasing ability to keep a steady beat through chants,
dances, and movement to rhythmic patterns (A.2.f.) • Develops increasing ability to change positions and move body from
place to place (A.2.b.)

■ Gumdrop Hop

■ Gingerbread

■ I’m Fresh from the Pan ■ ■ Gingerbread Girl Twirl

Hokey Pokey Spicy Gingerbread Man

Outdoor Play • Develops control of large muscles for movement,
navigation, and balance (A.2.a.)
■ Gingerbread Man Race ■ The Gingerbread Man Says

Learning ■ Fine Motor
• Develops control of small muscles for manipulation and exploration (A.3.b.)
■ Creativity Station
• Coordinates eye and hand movements (A.3.c.)

Centers ■ Construction
• Develops skill and confidence with processes of art, such as drawing, collage, painting, and constructing (D.5.a.)
■ Math
• Learns and begins to use math concepts during daily routines and experiences (D.2.g.)

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