INCA Head Start Lesson Plan
Week 17 December 7,
Study: Clothes
Teacher: Hook/Walker
Investigation: 3. How do people make clothes? (Monday–Thursday) 4. How is cloth made? (Friday)
Large
Group
Monday:pg52Calendar/Helpers weather, school day
Read the book The Quinceanera
Talk about draping clothing
Tuesday: pg54 Calendar/Helpers, weather, school day
Give each child a scarf and music to dance to.
Introduce visitor to the class, have visitor show the
different tools he or she uses to make clothes.
Invite children to ask questions.
Wednesday: pg56Calendar/Helpers, weather, school day
MM09, “Writing in the Air”
Draw and article of clothing discuss the curved and
straight lines.
Show a few sample of clothing with lines
Relate the idea of lines to letters. Have children search
the room for letters with each kind of line.
Thursday: pg58Calendar/Helpers, weather, school day
Reread Something From Nothing
Talk about other ways to put different kinds of fabric
pieces together.
Show illustration in A Pocket for Corduroy talk about how
Lisa uses the scrap fabric to make a pocket.
Friday: pg62Calendar/Helpers , weather, school day
Talk about textures of fabrics
Sort clothing by texture
Invite visitor who can knit or crochet or show picture of the
loom from the Quinceanera. Allow children to feel the
textures of many types of woven fabrics.
Daily Transition:
1.mm12 tricky ricky
2.mm24 dinky doo
3. mm 28 counting calisthenics
4. mm42 come play
5. name, age, bday
Choice Time
Small Group
Read Aloud
Large Group
Round up
Match fabrics that are alike. Take
note of the patterns they created.
Trace around the children invite
them to help cut the tracing out
Sewing Paper or Let’s Sew, P01,
“Let’s Sew”
Provide drape clothing in dramatic
play
Geoboards in math area
Trace around the children invite
them to help cut the tracing out
P30, “Mixing Paint”
Something
From Nothing
Recall the day’s events
Invite children to share their sewing
project with the rest of the group
Remind the children that a visitor is
coming tomorrow to demonstrate sewing.
Invite the children to generate questions.
Recall the day’s events
Invite children to share their color-mixing
work with the group. Show the photos of
children wearing draped clothing. Invite
children to talk about their experience.
Trace around the children invite
them to help cut the tracing out
Writing Poetry or A Collection of
Poems LL27, “Writing Poems”
Abuletia’s
Weave
The Girl Who
Wore Too
Much
BD03
Recall the day’s events
Invite the children who worked on creating
poetry to share their work
Zoo
Phonics
Intro /k/
a-z signal and 1 sound
Kayo page
Starfall.com – letter k
Put alc in a-b-c- order
Meet me at the zoo
Starfall.com letter k
Match capital to
lowercase
Match alc’s to black
letter cards
Weekly
Activities
Learning
Center
Materials
Mental Health:
Second Step:
lesson2:
Calming down
strong feelings
Art/Writing:
Large paper for
body tracings
Fabric scrapes,
glue
Humanities:
sketch shirt for
kids to design
themselves
Computer:
eBook The
Quinceanera
Social Studies:
Different clothing in
cultures
Game: beat the teacher
With black letter cards
The Girl Who
Wore Too
Much
BD03
Recall the day’s events
Walk around the room and look at each
other’s clothing creations for their body
tracings
a-z – give silent signal
class names sound and
letter
show and tell /k/
Healthy/Safety:
Covering coughs,
sneezes
LL23, “Playing With
Environmental Print” or LL31, “I
went Shopping”
The Paper Bag
Princess
Recall the day’s events
Shared writing: Write a group thank you
note to today’s visitor
a-z have class name all
letters, signals, sounds,
Nutrition:
My plate hero. Put
foods in correct
area.
Daily Literacy: (Words of the Week)
Sketch, design, fashion designer,
seamstress, tailors, stitch, hem,
sewing machine, manufactured, huipil,
tapestry,
NO SCHOOL
Monthly Cooking (Food) Activity:
Music:
1. Choosy Freeze
2. muffin man
3. a sledding we will go ( fingerplay)
4.I’m little snowman
5. months of year
Dramatic Play:
Fabric pieces that
can be draped or
tied to create
clothes
Library/Listening:
Books on clothes
Manipulatives:
Design clothing
Writing Poetry or A Collection of
Poems LL27, “Writing Poems”
NO SCHOOL
Blocks:
Color: black
Number: 10
Shape: review basic shapes
Rhyme: Little Jack Horner
Fabric scraps cut into
pieces to match or
pattern
Geoboards and
bands
Sand & Water:
Moon sand
Math/Science:
Music:
Outside:
Follow the leader
on a line
See pg49
P09, “Up and
Away”
INCA Head Start Lesson Plan
Week 17 December 7
Study: Clothes
Teacher:
Investigation: 3. How do people make clothes? (Monday–Thursday) 4. How is cloth made? (Friday)
Individual Help:
Material Sent Home:
(e.g. Zoo-phonics activity worksheets, newsletters)
Monday- no school
Lacing through holes in outline of picture on lacing card: AyB, SV,MM, Ph, MisH, MH, CL
Traces a diamond: AdB, HH, BS, SV, AK, PH, BRP, MH, Cl,
Show and tell note – k
Tuesday
Selects matching letter in group of 3: AdB, AyB, HH, MH, CL,
Selects word pattern that matches sample: OG, RP, MJ, BJ, CS, PH, MH, BRP
Wednesday
Recites numbers 1-10: BJ, AdB, HH, CS, SV, MM, AK, MH, CL
Names who, what, where, why of simple story: RP, BJ, PH, BRP,
Names 8 of 10 printed letters/numbers: OG, MM
Thursday
Points to 5 printed numbers between 1-10: OG, HH,BS, SV, MM, PH, MisH, MH, CL,
Jumps ver dowel held 12 inches off floor, with a running start: AYB, ADB, MM, MisH, BRP, MH
Parent Suggestive Activities: (Activity & Signature)
Parent bringing sewing machine and demonstration
Friday
NO SCHOOL
Family Partnerships:
We’d like to invite a family member who knits or crochets to visit the class on Friday to help the children explore how
cloth is made. Also, our class will be conducting a clothing drive at the end of this study, so please collect clothing to
donate. We would also like to ask a few family members to help take the clothes to a donation site after the clothing
drive, so let us know if you are interested. Finally, please access the ebook, The Quinceañera.
Wow! Experiences:
Tuesday—A visit from someone who sews
Friday—A visit from someone who knits or crochets