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Class: Child Development 7
Introduction to Curriculum in Early Childhood
LANGUAGE
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LITERACY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Old MacDonald Had a Farm
 Go Away Big Green Monster
 If You Take a Mouse to School
 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
 Pigs Love Potatoes
 Eating the Alphabets
 If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
 Can You Make a Scary Face?
Child Development 7
Language and Literacy (LITERATURE “SPIN-OFF”)
Name: Nareh Hartonian
Age Group: 4 years old
Title of Book: Old MacDonald Had a Farm
Author: Nosy Crow
Brief Summary/Story line: This book is a sing along book about Old MacDonald’s farm and
the farm animals he has on his farm and the sounds each of his farm animals make.
Follow up activities:
Science: I will bring the petting farm animals to the preschool for the children to learn about
what they eat and etc. with hands on experience.
Mathematics: I will ask the children to group/classify and count the different farm animal
counters in the free activity area.
Cooking: The children will learn that cows provide us with milk and milk can be used to make
cheese. Then the children will make cheese out of milk.
Physical and Motor: The children can act out all the different moves each farm animals makes.
Social Studies: The children can discuss the different farm animals and compare them with
animals they have at their own homes or even animals they have seen outside a farm. Also the
children can discuss their living status and compare it to a person that lives on the farm.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT 7
Language and Literacy (LITERATURE “SPIN-OFF”)
Name: Barbara Covert
Age group: Ages 3 and up
Title of the Book:Go Away Big Green Monster
Author: Ed Emberley
Brief Summary/Storyline:This is a story about a monster, in which the reader is describing as
they tell it to ‘go away’. This story teaches children about colors and adjectives, as well as body
parts.
Follow-up Activities:
Science: Students will create their own big green monsters using water paint. They will
experiment with mixing two colors together to create one solid color. For example: mixing the
red and blue paint to create purple for the scraggly purple hair.
Mathematics:Students will practice counting the number of body parts they have. For example:
Two eyes, two ears, ten fingers and one nose.
Cooking:Withhelp from the teacher, students will be able to bake their own monster cupcakes.
They will learn about all the ingredients and measurements that go into making the cupcakes,
and they will be able to decorate the face with green frosting and other little goodies.
Physical & Motor:As a group students can sing and dance to the song “Head, shoulders, knees
and toes”.
Social Studies:Teachers can provide books about other consideriable monsters and can explain
the history in which themythical creatures originated from. For example: Bigfoot and how he’s
said to be found in the forest along the Pacific North-West coast. Or “Nessie” the Loch Ness
monster discovered in the Scottish Highlands.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT 7
Language and Literacy (LITERATURE “SPIN-OFF”)
Name: Norma Castro Moreno
Age group: 5 Years Old
Title of the Book: If You Take A Mouse to School
Author: Laura Numeroff
Brief Summary/Storyline: The book talks about the routine of getting ready for school and the
activities a child has to do at school.
Follow-up Activities:
Science: All of the children will have the opportunity to experience a volcano explosion effect
using baking soda, vinegar, and red food coloring.
Mathematics: A cookie will be given to every single student and then she/he will count how
many chocolate chips she/he sees, then partner with another student and add the number of
chocolate chips both cookies have together. Also, they can do a collage with the items they think
they will need for making sandwiches using the store flyers and pretend to buy the ingredients
paying with play money.
Cooking: With adult supervision, some of the students will get the lettuce ready, other ones will
cut the tomatoes with plastic knives and all the children will make their own sandwich.
Physical & Motor: Providing cones and a soccer ball, all children will have the opportunity to
play soccer during outside play time.
Social Studies: Working in small groups and using blocks, all children will contribute building a
mouse house by taking turns and accepting ideas from their classmates. Doll house furniture will be
provided so children can decorate the house.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT 7
Language and Literacy (LITERATURE “SPIN-OFF”)
Name: Cindy Beltran and Jesus Bruno
Age group: 2 and up
Title of the Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?
Author: Bill Martin Jr /Eric Carle.
Brief Summary/Storyline: The stories about a bear that sees many types of
animals.
Follow-up Activities:
Science: Give the kids paint and let them choose their favorite color to paint their
favorite animal from the book.
Mathematics: Have children count all the different animals they are including
people and have them count how many feet and hand animals have.
Cooking: Make cookie dough with the children make animal cookies
Physical & Motor: Have the caregiver or teacher to ask any child to get up
identify and place the animal prop in its proper place for example a plastic bag or
box and final have the child sit in his or her sitting spot.
Social Studies: Teaching children the different types of habitats animals come
from also have a children's pet day to show and tell.
Jeannette S Avina
March 02, 2016
Child Development 7
Literature and Literacy (Spin-Off)
Name: Jeannette Selina Avina
Age Group: 4 to 8 years old
Title of the Book: Pigs Love Potatoes
Author: Anika Denise
Illustrator: Christopher Denise
Brief summary/ Storyline: One pig wants potatoes so momma
starts to cook than another and another until the whole family
wants potatoes. Even the neighbors join in and it becomes a
potato party.
Follow up activities:
Science: See the difference between a boiled potato and an uncooked potato. Show the students
on how to grow a potato. The process and everything. Have them make a potatoes head with
playdough.
Mathematics: I would have the children count the potatoes and all the pigs. Count all the pigs to
see if they have enough potatoes. Count the little pigs and the big pigs. Also count the different
activities that all pigs are doing.
Cooking: I would ask the children about all the different ways that they have eaten potatoes.
Also what kinds of foods do they eat with potatoes? I would make French fries for them or
mashed potato. Anything of off the ideas they give me.
Physical and Motor: I could get colorful paper and let them choose. Cut the potatoes in half
than into shapes. {Circles, squares, triangles, etc.) Put plastic swords so the children can grab
them. Put paint into little bowls and show the children how to dip them in.
Social Studies: Show the children about the different types of pigs or potatoes that there are.
Also show the children of all the different types of potatoes there are different shapes colors and
sizes.
CHILD DEVELOPMENT 7
Language and Literacy (LITERATURE “SPIN-OFF”)
Name: Lissette Morales
Age group: Age between 4-5 years old
Title of the Book: Eating the Alphabets
Author: Lois Ehlert
Brief Summary/Storyline:
Introducing fruits and vegetables from around the world while teaching upper and lowercase letters.
Follow-up Activities:
Science:
Provide seeds of fruits and vegetables to plant in pots. Teach the children that the plants require sun and
water so they can grow.
Mathematics:
Provide a handful of small toy fruits. Sort them by the type of fruit and afterwards place each type on a
graph. Then discuss what we have most or least of by using the numbers on the side of the graph. Lastly,
color in the graph with the amount of fruit of each one we discuss.
Cooking:
Ask the parents to bring one type of fruit to class. Describe the fruit and compare them to the book.
Afterwards clean and cut the fruit to make a fruit salad.
Physical & Motor:
Once our fruits and vegetables have grown from their pots. We’ll go outside to the garden and use shovels
to dig holes. Then the children can remove the plants from their pots and place them into the soil. This will
help with the gross motor skills.
Social Studies:
Provide a take home Fruits and Vegetables Scavenger Hunt sheet and instruct the families to find
supermarket ads. They would cut out fruits and vegetables from the ads and glue them onto the sheet with
the correct letter space. The following day we would discuss on what we found on their hunt.
Language and Literacy (LITERATURE “SPIN-OFF”)
Name: Nicole Candelas
Age group: Pre-K to 2
Title of the Book: If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
Author: Laura Numeroff
Brief Summary/Storyline: A boy gives a mouse a cookie then the mouse asks for a cup of milk to go along with it.
After the cup of milk the mouse starts to ask for many predictable things and leads to different events all leading
back with the milk and cookies.
Follow-up Activities:
Science: Adopt a classroom pet! After reading the book, if the school allows, adopt a pet mouse. Before bringing the
mouse to the class teach the children the basics of caring for an animal, such as letting the children know what the
mouse eats, where they live, and if kept in a cage they should have a place to sleep with plenty of ventilation and
most importantly teach the children how to handle and hold he mouse properly. Children can take turns caring for
the mouse weekly, signing up the children for different duties such as cleaning and feeding the mouse.
Mathematics: Chip counts, the children will count the chocolate chips in each cookie and will write the number
below. Then encourage the children to order them from least to the most chips. This will help children learn their
numbers and be able to organize them from the least to greatest.
Cooking: Buy all materials needed to bake cookies from scratch, the children will learn to measure ingredients,
pour, stir and see the cause and effect of the materials. Children can also count how many chocolate chips they each
have and can act out the book itself and of course have enough milk for everyone.
Physical & Motor: Children can act out the story meanwhile someone is reading it. Or they can play a game of
charades and have other children guess the scene they are acting out; it gives the children an opportunity to act silly
and perform their favorite parts of the book.
Social Studies: The children will engage in an activity of economics; on a board with props the children will learn
the difference between needs and wants. Needs will be based on personal necessities, such as the milk and straw the
mouse asks for, and wants will be based on things that fulfill our needs, such as the paper and crayons to draw a
picture. While one is reading the book stop on each page and let the children decide if the items the mouse is asking
for belongs in the needs or wants section.
Child Development 7
Language and Literacy
Name: Jessica Silva & April Vasquez
Age group: 4-5
Title of the Book: Can You Make a Scary Face?
Author: Jan Thomas
Brief Summary: A ladybug wants the audience to follow his commands when a hungry frog comes
along, and then realizes he needs help.
Follow-up Activities:
Science: Children will observe jars of different types of ladybugs with magnifying glasses and then
discuss what they observed.
Mathematics: A game similar to bingo will be played, instead of having numbers on the cards there will
be ladybugs with different amounts of spots on them. In order for children to cover their spaces they will
need to count the number of spots on each ladybug. (Example: We would say “place a leaf on the ladybug
that has two spots, and so on)
Cooking: Children will be making their own ladybug out of apples. To do so the
following will be needed: red apples, peanut butter, raisins, and stick pretzels. After
the apples have been cut from top to bottom and placed down with the red skin of the
apple showing, the children will then make spots on the apple using the peanut butter.
They will then place the raisins on top of the peanut butter in order to represent the
black dots found on ladybugs. Finally, have the children place the stick pretzels into the ends of the apple.
Physical & Motor: Before we begin reading, each group of children will be given pictures of commands
used in the book, such as stand up or sit down. When the command has been read from the book, the
group who has the picture of someone standing up will need to do the same. After reading the book have
children do their best impression of a ladybug or frog.
Social Studies: Introduce children to a chart of different types of ladybugs and have them discuss the
differences.