Mandy Widmer

I use this for Planning in different ways. I print out several for the year. You can have one on the table and children put a sticker on which one they want to go to. Or have them write their name on the area they want to play.

This is a great activity to do with kids Preschool to Kindergarten. Help identify feelings, colors and story retelling after reading the book The Color Monster. Has Printout cards, coloring pages sample questions.

This is a section from my personal small group folder. It has Highscope Key Developmental Indicators on each page as well as Preschool DRDP measures that each activity goes with. Each one has the subjects, materials needed and description with optional changes and key speaking points for each activity. These are some of my kids favorites for 3-5 year olds. Usually done with groups of 8 kids at a time.

You can print out the color wheel and laminated and cut it out. Attach the arrow into the middle and kids can move it to how they feel today. There is a template to scribble a circle in how they are feeling today. There is a template to color each emotion in. There is also a color mixing page. Fun activity for preschoolers to talk about colors and emotions. Can be used with distance learning or in person.

Here are 20 more activities to go with the first 25 that were uploaded. This is part 2. These are HighScope activities that are for play based and hands on learning. These have descriptions, KDIs, and DRDP measures put on each page. I put these in a small group activities binder for easy access in lesson planning.

This is the entire PTKLF in a condensed form. It only shows the the foundations for each domain at the early and later skills without all of the examples. It is formatted to print on 8X14 paper and then be laminated and put on a ring for easy access to foundational skills. With front and back, it prints 18 pages.

A-Z Environmental Print Alphabet cards to print cut and laminate and put up in your classroom

I use this to test my Preschoolers at the end of the year to go over with parents during Parent Conferences and give to their Kinder teachers so they know what knowledge they are entering Kinder with.

I use this lesson for color sorting and also for healthy and unhealthy food. Print them out and laminate them. I give each child a food item and i place colors paper on the table. They place them on what color they match. Or i print a large happy tooth and a large sad tooth and they place it on if its healthy and makes out teeth happy or if its unhealthy and makes out teeth sad and dirty. These can be done in large or small group.

12 Songs to Start your Highscope Songbook. Animated pictures and names of songs

10 Shapes on pumpkins for shape recognition. Secretly place the black cat behind one of the pumpkins, sing the chant and let the children take turns guessing the shape to see if the cat is being it or not. Can be done in large or small group settings.

This is an activity for measurement. Print and laminate each page. Give kids a handful of unifix cubes or a tape measure. Have them measure each animal from line to line. Decide which animals are longer or shorter and how long they are.

4 weeks of distance learning lesson plans including independent homework assignments, and small groups. Lesson plans are based off of conscious discipline, DRDP and High Scope Activities. Every week has activities for Social Emotional Development, Math, Literacy, Health Safety and Nutrition. All of these activities can be done virtually on Google Meets or Zoom all together or done in the classroom.

Microsoft Slide game to play with Preschoolers and Kindergarteners. The way I play it is I present the slides to the kids one at a time. I as them which one belongs with the person. It could be which hat or which vehicle. Once they tell me and I click next, it enlarges the correct answer to show them it was right. Very fun game to play virtually to talk about our community helpers. It has baker, construction worker, trash man, police, firefighters and paramedics on it.

Print out a picture of the child and put on the front of the book and write their name. A short social story to show children how their parents drop them off and then they come back to get them.

PDF of Flash cards for story retelling, Fine motor tracing pages, matching game, color the brown bear, brown bear puzzles.

Printable 5 little snowmen, sun and song lyrics. Can be used distance learning or in person. PDF version

17 Page PDF. Printable real Pictures labeled of 6 different insects. Cards to make Memory Game, Life Cycles and coloring Pages. I print and laminated and put in my Science Center when I do a unit on insects. I also get lady bugs and caterpillars to raise in the class. Have Magnifying glasses on the table for observations. There are pages for children to document what they see.

PDF of 7 weeks of distance learning lesson plans. All of these activities were done virtual and all can be done in person as well. Includes a few of my small group activities as well. Goes along with the preschool DRDP. Mainly hands on activities where kids can do writing, counting and manipulating at home. This is the 3rd set of Lesson plans that I have uploaded so far and has the most weeks.

These are some of my lesson plans that I use for distance learning. This is not what I did in zoom or google meets with my kids, although many of the activities can be done on video with them. This is the homework I sent home to them every week for them to do with their parents and send me pictures of. Lots of DRDP measures are observed in these.