Shaylah Ware
ACTIVITIY PLANS
Curriculum Plan Shaylah Ware
Topic/Title of Lesson: Dog Biscuit Fun Focused Domain: Fine Motor / Social Center: Science Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: Making dog bones out of cookie dough
Objective: Children will make their ideal dog bone by using cookie dough.
Procedure: First the children will wash their hands. Second they will all be given a paper plate
with the cookie dough on it. Third the other items like the alphabet and number stampers,
sprinkles, and icing will be placed in the enter of each table. Fourth, show the children some
different pics of bones and leave them displayed out if they want to reference back to how they
look followed by making one of your own! As each child completed their bone have them place it
on a cookie sheet so that it can go into the oven.
Advanced Preparation: Buying all the materials List Materials: Cookie dough, alphabet and
number stampers, 4 different icing colors, multicolored sprinkles, and paper plates
Developmental Benefits: Children will be able to use their small gross motor skills, social,
language, creativity, and three of their senses, smelling, touching, and seeing what they’re
creating. They will also get the chance to see how it is when they’re parents are baking or making
something in the kitchen.
Future Plans: Make a chart graphing to see how many children had small or big bones, how many
used either icing and or sprinkles.
Transition Plan: Sitting at the carpet we would play a game called Silly Bones with a dog song
playing in the back ground. Each child will either pass or toss it to the child sitting next to them
until we get down to the last person and from there we will transfer over to making the dog
biscuits.
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Dog Ears Focused Domain: Social / Fine motor
Learning Center: Art Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: Teaching children that dogs ears come in different shapes, sizes, and colors, and having
them to explore through creativity on how theirs will look.
Objective: Children will make a pair of dog ears with a head band to go around their heads
Procedure: Each child will be given some construction paper the color of their choice so they can
trace their dog ears either with an oval or triangle shape. They will then be measured to see how
long of a piece of paper needs to be cut to fit around their heads. Next once marked off on the
paper where to start and stop each child will cut out the rectangle shape so that the ends can be
taped together. Then the ears can be glued and taped for extra security. Lastly the children can
decorate the dog ear head bands by adding stickers pertaining to dogs.
Advanced Preparation: Making sure that all the materials are available and if not go to the store
to buy whatever is needed
List Materials: Multicolored construction paper, scissors, tape, glue stick, oval and triangle
shapes, black markers, and stickers that are dog related.
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their fine motor skills through using
their hands, social, creativity, language, and being able to see how others have used their
creativity to.
Future Plans: Children will make a dog mask to correspond to the ears they made and it will be
able to be worn together.
Transition Plan: While sitting at the carpet a book about dog ears will be read followed by the
song Does your Ears Hang Low and then the activity would start afterwards.
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Who has a Dog? Focused Domain: Social/Language
Learning Center: Math Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: Teach children how to tally and graph
Objective: Children will learn how to tally and graph answers to questions on dogs that are
presented
Procedure: Go around the circle and have each child say if they have or been around a dog. After
asking the questions make a tally mark next to it. Next ask them what is the color of the dog? Then
is the dog big or small? Does your dog sleep in a bed, couch/sofa or dog house? Once everyone has
answered the questions then proceed to make a diagram so they can see the total number of
corresponding answers and have them count with you.
Advanced Preparation: Writing the questions on the dry erase board and having the diagram
already drawn out with abbreviated questions.
List Materials: Dry erase board and markers, long white sheet of paper, and a couple different
colored markers, sharpies, or colored pencils for shading in the chart.
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their language, cognitive, and social
skills in being able to share with others some different things about either their dog or a dog
they’re around from time to time.
Future Plans: Children will play a listening game to see why the dog might’ve made the noise
he/she did and what kind of noise was it by showing it on a piece of paper through words and or a
picture.
Transition Plan: Sing the song Snuggle Puppy as a group
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Where’s Spot Focused Domain: Cognitive/Language
Learning Center: Literacy Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: To learn how to pay attention to pay attention and listen
Objective: Children will be able to verbalize what they saw and happened within the story to help
in drawing out and or writing at the tables what they remembered from the story.
Procedure: Each child will be given some paper so they can write as well as draw what they saw
in the story. Once everyone is done we will go around the room so that each child will be given a
chance to tell everyone what they liked or caught their attention in the story.
Advanced Preparation: Making sure that all the materials are available
List Materials: Multipurpose paper, crayons, markers, colored and regular pencils
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their fine motor skills through using
their hands, language, and cognitive skills in being able to remember something that stood out or
caught their attention in the story as well as being able to tell a few things about what happened
in the story.
Future Plans: Children will draw a place that they feel a puppy would hide at and tell the reason
why they choose that place.
Transition Plan: After reading the story, Where’s Spot we will sing, Where oh Where has my Little
Dog Gone and from there we will start the activity.
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Marmaduke Focused Domain: Social/Emotion
Learning Center: Language/ Visual Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: Teach children how to distinguish from a good and bad act
Objective: Children will learn some of how and what dogs think and be able to
Procedure: Go around the circle and have each child say if they have or been around a dog. After
asking the questions make a tally mark next to it. Next ask them what is the color of the dog? Then
is the dog big or small? Does your dog sleep in a bed, couch/sofa or dog house? Once everyone has
answered the questions then proceed to make a diagram so they can see the total number of
corresponding answers and have them count with you.
Advanced Preparation: Writing the questions on the dry erase board and having the diagram
already drawn out with abbreviated questions.
List Materials: Dry erase board and markers, long white sheet of paper, and a couple different
colored markers, sharpies, or colored pencils for shading in the chart.
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their language, cognitive, and social
skills in being able to share with others some different things about either their dog or a dog
they’re around from time to time.
Future Plans: Children will play a listening game to see why the dog might’ve made the noise
he/she did and what kind of noise was it by showing it on a piece of paper through words and or a
picture.
Transition Plan: Sing the song Snuggle Puppy as a group
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Jobs for Dogs Focused Domain: Social/Fine/Cognitive
Learning Center: Language/ Visual Age of Children: 4-5
Goal: To learn different job duties
Objective: Children will write out different jobs that dogs do that are within the same fields as
humans
Procedure: First we will discuss some of the jobs that humans do where dogs work there to. Next
each child will be given a piece of paper and a pencil to write down jobs they feel and or know a
dog can do. Afterwards we will discuss some of the things that everyone wrote down just to see if
anything new was added. Once everyone is done then the papers will be put onto the bulletin
board for display.
Advanced Preparation: None
List Materials: Paper and pencils
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their language, cognitive, fine motor,
and social skills in being able to share their thoughts, listening to what others have to say, writing
with a pencil, understanding why and the benefit of things.
Future Plans: Children will make awards out of paper to give to their puppy at home.
Transition Plan: Children will watch a short clip on youtube that shows some of the jobs that dogs
have
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Alphabet Puppy Focused Domain: Social/Fine Motor/Cognitive
Learning Center:Language/Visual Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: Teach children how to recognize alphabets, placement, and words
Objective: Learning letters and words
Procedure: Give each child a letter. Call the letters out in the alphabet one at a time allowing the
child to come up and place the letter in the correct box followed by giving a word that starts with
that letter. Continue on until all the children have had a turn.
Advanced Preparation: Cut out some letters. Wrap up two shoe boxes with some gift wrapping
paper one white and the other one brown followed by sing your creativity to make it look like a
dog. Write 14 different letter on the lower portion of the box. Cut an opening where the mouth is
so they can place the letters in with ease.
List Materials: Construction paper, traceable letters, shoe box, scissors, glue, black marker, and
wrapping paper to cover the box before turning it into a dog look.
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their cognitive, social, and language
skills in being able to recognized letters, placing the letters in the right box, and being able to use
their vocabulary to give a name of something that matches with the letter given.
Future Plans: Children will have a worksheet where they have to match lower and capital case
letters together.
Transition Plan: Singing the alphabet song and or reading an alphabet book
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Clap it out Focused Domain: Social/Cognitive
Learning Center: Literacy Age of Children: 4-5
Goal: Teaching children syllables
Objective: Learning syllables by saying their name aloud and clapping their hands to see how
many they’ve found.
Procedure: Give each child a sheet of paper with their name on it and a pencil. Tell them that they
have to clap their hands and say their name at the same time to see how many syllables they have
in their name. Once they’ve done that have them to write the number of syllables as well as place
the hyphen in between where the break is if possible. Give them an example by doing your own
name first before they try.
Advanced Preparation: Write out on a sheet of paper each child’s first and last name.
List Materials: Paper and pencils
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their cognitive, social, and language
skills in being able to say their name aloud and determine how many syllables they hear and it
gives them a chance to hear other children’s name and clap out theirs to and determine how many
they heard.
Future Plans: Children will do the same steps like last time but only this time around they will
have to determine where the hyphen/s come at within their first and last name
Transition Plan: Singing the BINGO since it has breaks in it as well as clapping
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Dog Bone Matching Focused Domain: Social/Fine Motor/Cognitive
Learning Center: Math Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: To count objects and match them up
Objective: Children will count the number of dogs followed by the number of bones to see where
the line should be drawn to.
Procedure: Give each child a worksheet with the dogs and bones on it and a pencil. Tell them the
directions followed by giving an example on the dry erase board so they can have a clear picture of
your expectation. If they would like to color the dog and bones once they are done they can do so.
Advanced Preparation: Make sure that all materials are available and Pre-print the work sheets
List Materials: Dry erase board, work sheets, pencils, crayons and colored pencils
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their cognitive, social, and fine motor
skills in being able to count, match, and color what is shown on the work sheet and discussing
with others on what they think should go together on the paper as well as other conversations in
regards to dogs.
Future Plans: Children will have a worksheet where they have to count the number of different
dogs followed by writing how many they have for each and adding the two together for a total
number of dogs in all.
Transition Plan: Sing, Six Little Dogs song as a class
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Letter P Focused Domain: Social/Language
Learning Center: Art Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: To use their creativity
Objective: Children will decorate the letter P with the different materials in the art area
Procedure: Give each child a letter P that was precut out. First they will write out some puppy
names inside the letter P. Next they will to use the materials provided to decorate their letter P
however they want to by using stickers, googly eyes, pomp pomps, feathers and etc.
Advanced Preparation: Write out the letter P on construction paper and cut it out using
different colors of paper.
List Materials: Paper, thin markers assorted colors, glue, stickers of all different types of
things, googly eyes, pomp pomps, glitter, feathers, pieces of paper cut out in different shapes or
other things.
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their social, language skills,
cognitive, and fine motor in being able to decorate the letter P however they imagine it to look
as well as think of some puppy names.
Future Plans: Children will do a scavenger hunt to find things around the class that starts with
the letter P and write it down and or draw it.
Transition Plan: Reading a book that starts with the letter P
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Pet Store Focused Domain: Social/Fine Motor
Learning Center: Dramatic Play Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: To learn how to shop and count
Objective: Children will be able to go into the play store to shop for items that their new puppy
will need.
Procedure: Children will first get their list and marker or pencil. Next they will go no more than
three at a time in the dramatic play area to shop for their new puppy. Once they’re done then they
will get rung up at the register by another classmate and pay with money to get the items.
Advanced Preparation: Make a few different check list of items that new owners would need for
their puppy
List Materials: Paper, markers, play money, basket, buggy, bones, toys that are big, small, and
medium such as: ropes, balls, chew toys, toys that makes different noises, Frisbees, dog food dry
in the bag and canned, shampoo, brushes, combs, collars, leashes, beds, cages, mats, bowls for
water and food, pooper scoopers, puppy pads for training,
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their cognitive, social, and language
skills in being able to check items off their list, recognizing words and items within the paly area.
Future Plans: Children will come up with a game that puppies would love to play outdoors
Transition Plan: Read a book on puppy shopping
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Puppy Salon Focused Domain: Social/Language/Fine Learning Center: Dramatic Play Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: To learn how to use their imagination
Objective: Children will act as a puppy stylist to make them look fashionable
Procedure: Their will be no more than three children allowed in this area at one time. They
will have to groom their puppy by trimming or cutting all the hair off, bathing, blow drying,
combing, brushing, adding bows, ribbons, and polishing nails depending on what the owner
wants.
Advanced Preparation: Making sure there is empty bottles of shampoos, conditioners, nail
polish, pretend blow dryers that makes actual sound, fake scissors, clippers for hair
trimming, pretend small cages to confine them, buying some bows and ribbons from the
dollar store.
List Materials: Shampoos, conditioners, and nail polish containers emptied, blow dryer,
scissors, 2 cages from the pretend section in the store, bows and ribbons from the dollar
store, two small-medium tables and 2-3 trimmers for hair cutting that’s not any good
someone can donate, (Barber).
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in their fine motor, social, language,
and creativity skills by using the scissors and trimmers to pretend to cut hair, sharing of the
hair washing products, blow dryer, and telling each the other children to what they’re going
to do to the puppy far as in hair stlye, polish they’re going to use, etc.
Future Plans: Next time they will be dog walkers/sitters and in doing this job they will also
have to clean up behind the dog if it does it’s business outside, feed and give it water, and a
bath after playing and he/she gets dirty
Transition Plan: Reading a story, Harry the Dirty Dog
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Puppy Face Focused Domain: Social/Fine Motor Learning Center: Art Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: To learn how to use their creativity
Objective: Children will create their own puppy face by using the materials provided.
Procedure: Each child will be given a dog face and
some ears that are precut. Then they will use the materials provided at the tables to create
their puppy faces. Once everyone is done, go around the room and ask each child what is
their puppy’s name? What do you like most about your puppy/dog?
Advanced Preparation: Precutting out of the puppies face and ears on white, brown, and
black construction paper
List Materials: Paper, pencils, googly eyes, black markers and colored pencils
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their cognitive, social,
language, and fine motor skills through drawing on facial features, gluing of the ears and
eyes to the paper, talking amongst the others at their table about the type of dog they have,
how it acts, what it likes to do, and etc.
Future Plans: Children will make dog collars with the name tag on them
Transition Plan: Sing together as a class the Little Puppy song
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Topic/Title of Lesson: My Puppy Book Focused Domain: Social/Fine Motor
Learning Center: Literacy Age of Children: 4-5
Goal: To learn how to use their creativity
Objective: Children will create their own puppy book by drawing pictures and describing what is
going on in the picture.
Procedure: First the children will be given the directions on what to do. Next they will receive a
couple of different colored square pieces of construction paper. Once they pick out the colors they
want and how many sheets then they will take it to one of the teachers so that it can be stapled
together along the left side. Afterwards the children will began writing, drawing, and adding any
other decorations they would like to throughout their books. Once done make sure they put their
first name and last initial on the front of the book at the bottom.
Advanced Preparation: Cutting out squared pieces of different colored construction paper to make
the books
List Materials: Multicolored construction paper, pencils, markers, glitter, string, puppy, and
stickers.
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their cognitive, social, language, and
fine motor skills in talking to other children
Future Plans: Children will make a timeline based on events that they’ve done with their puppy
from one of the seasons.
Transition Plan: Reading of a story called Biscuit wants to Play
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Topic/Title of Lesson: Biscuit Fun Focused Domain: Social/Cognitive Learning Center: Science Age of Children: 3-5
Goal: Teach kids how to sort objects
Objective: Sorting biscuits by size, shape, and color
Procedure: Give each child 12 bones of different size, shape, and color. Tell the children that
they will have to sort the bones by color, shape, and size and then be able to say what the
differences are if possible.
Advanced Preparation: Buying an assortment of dog biscuits in shape, size, and color
List Materials: Dog biscuits and sand
Developmental Benefits: This will help the children in using their cognitive, social, and
language skills in being able to talk to their peers about what they see, think, usage of their
hands to turn the biscuits around for observing, remembering the directions if not all some
to be able to complete the task.
Future Plans: Children will make their own biscuits out of construction paper and use them
for counting by writing one number per bone up to 20.
Transition Plan: Singing a song called Five Little Puppies