Preschool Lesson Planwestern Theme
Preschool Lesson Planwestern Theme
Preschool Lesson Planwestern Theme
3.
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Totem Pole
Symbol Stories: Indian symbols told a story. For example, a story might be,
"In the year of the plenty food, people had time to talk together." In time, that
became the sign for talking together.
Story #2
Wrap the heads around the paper towel tube and glue the
seams.
Lunch Circle:
Read book club book
Review songs Table Toys
1.
2.
3.
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Lasso Game
Make a large cow head of
poster board, decorate
and attach to a short
chair. Children can use a
hula hoop over the cow's
head to "lasso" him.
Alternative: Set up a
group of stuffed animals
to be lassoed.
Thursday:
Craft Circle Activity Other Activities
and table ideas
Sensory Station
Morning Circle
1. Calendar
2.Weather
3. Transportation in the
Wild West
5. Academic
teaching/Review: Science/Learning
Songs
Table Toys
Lunch Circle:
1.
Read book club book
Review songs 2.
3.
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Snowshoes were used by the Native
traveling.
Friday:
Craft Circle Activity Other
Activities and
table ideas
Sensory Station
Morning Circle
3. Calendar
2.Weather
3.
5. Academic teaching/Review:
Science/Learning
Songs
2. Tee Pee
Lunch Circle:
Items you will need: Table Toys
Read book club book
Construction Paper (any color)
Scissors Review songs 1.
Tape
2 to 3 Straws
Take a piece of construction paper, 2.
any color, and wrap it into a cone
shape and tape. Trim around the 3.
base so the cone will stand flat. Next
cut a flap in your teepee by making
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two cuts vertically about 2 inches
long about 2 inches apart, then fold
the teepee flat up. Stick drinking
straws through the top if you want to
have more support for your tepee.
That's all there is to it! Decorate
your tepee with some great Native
American designs, pre-cut designs
and shapes.
* You can cut your teepee shape
ahead of time decorate it with/
Native American designs and then
assemble it.*
First Nation People’s Homes
No matter how you spell it, the tipi remains a wonderful invention.
A tipi used a hide flap as a doorway. Weather permitting, the entrance faced
east, towards the rising sun. If the weather was miserable or a storm was
brewing, the people positioned the flap opening in whatever way would best
serve the comfort of the occupants.
Sometimes, the people arranged their tipis in a circle, with all the opening flaps
facing the center open space created by the circle of tipis. If the entrance flap
was open, it was an invitation to enter. If the flap was closed, you needed to
announce yourself and wait for an invitation to enter a tipi, even if you lived
there.
Tipis were comfortable homes. They were warm in the winter and cool in the
summer. Some were quite large. They could hold 30 or 40 people comfortably.
Songs of the Week
Make trail mix in class. The kids decorated their "saddle bags" (brown lunch bags)
Then let the children choose what they would like to put into their trail mix.
Put out treats like:
mini pretzels
mini marshmallows
raisins
little toasted breads
choc. chips
chex cereal
Then take your bags outside for a cowboy picnic!!
Make cream cheese dough-- mix 3 oz softened cream cheese with 3 cups sifted confectioners sugar. stir in 3 drops almond
extract and a few drops of green food coloring. Place a spoonful of cream cheese dough on a square of wax paper and have the
child shape it into a mound to represent a cactus. Have the child break thin pretzels into short pieces and insert them in the candy.
Chill until time to serve.