Small Group Plan
One
Purpose and intent/Learning
Focus: Literacy
Learning Outcomes:
The child will be familiar with the
alphabet.
Experience Description:
Read the book to the children.
Play the game board with the
small group, and practice upper
case and lower case letters with
the magnet sheet.
Materials:
- Rhyming Game warm up
- The book; Chicka Chicka
Boom Boom
- Coconut tree game board
and pieces
- Upper case and lower case
letter matching coconut
activity.
Specific developmental concepts
or skills to assess: Alphabet
comprehension, upper case and
lower case letters, rhyming,
repetition
Two
Purpose and intent/Learning
Focus: Science/LIteracy
Learning Outcomes:
The children will observe and use
descriptive language to describe
bugs and insects
Experience Description:
Read the story to the children. Use
the magnifying glasses to observe
the bugs and describe what they
look like and do.
Materials:
- The Tickly Spider book
- Magnifying glasses
- Bugs
- Trays
Specific developmental concepts
or skills to assess:
Observing, listening, using science
tools
Three
Purpose and intent/Learning
Focus: Literacy
Learning Outcomes:
The children will understand the
story and help retell it using props
and felt pieces.
Experience Description:
Read the story. Retell the story
using props and train activity.
Materials:
- “Trains” spf
- the book; The little engine
that could
- train pull through activity
- felt pieces
- popsicle stick manipulatives
for retelling
Specific developmental concepts
or skills to assess:
Literacy
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