BYU-Idaho Preschool Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan #4
Lab 5
Fruits and Vegetables

Date: November 21, 2016

Supervisor: Katelyn Muray
Lead Teacher: Heather Johnson

Children and Learning/D___lopment Goals:

1. ____. Counting. ____ will be able to work on his goal in math as he counts vegetables
and fruits.
2. _______. Being able to sit still and listen. _______ will be able to work on his goal during
gathering time, small focus, and closing circle.
3. _______. Going to gathering time. _______ will be able to work on her goal to go to
gathering time during gathering time.
4. _______. Counting. _______ will be able to work on his goal by counting fruits and
vegetables.
5. _______. Letter Recognition. _______ will be able to work on her goal during the
language and literacy activity.
6. _______. Writing name. _______ will be able to work on her goal to write her name in
the art center.

Preassessment and Findings:

I asked _______ what his favorite vegetable was and he said cereal. I asked _______ if a
tomato was a fruit or vegetable and she said that she didnt know. I also asked her what her
favorite fruit was and she said it was an apple. I asked _______ what his favorite vegetable
and he said carrot and cereal. He said that his favorite fruit was watermelon. I asked _______
where vegetables come from and he said the ground. I asked him where fruit comes from
and he said the ground as well. I asked ____ if fruit was good for him and he said no. I asked
him if vegetables are good for him and he said yes. I asked ____ where vegetables come
from and she said the garden. I asked her when they grow and she said after we water them.
I asked ______ how long it takes for vegetables to grow and he said one day. I asked _______
why we eat fruits and vegetables and she said Because they are good for us. ______ told
me that Guinea pigs eat vegetables. From these assessments, I observed that the children
know that we eat fruits and vegetables, but they dont all know what a vegetable and fruit
necessarily are. They know that they grow, but they dont know how long it takes or when
certain fruits and vegetables grow.

Ideas to be Emphasized:
1. Fruit is sweet, fleshy and it comes from a tree or another plant and contains seeds.
2. Vegetables come from plants and can be the stem, leaf, root, and flower of the plant.
3. Fruit and vegetables grow on plants and trees.

Preschool Concepts or Skills:

1. Colors/Sizes
2. Counting
3. Differences

Assignments:
______Anna_____ Self-Selected ____Cassie____ Floater/Runner/Snack
_____Alice______ Small/Focus Groups ___Katelyn______ Booth/ Photographer
_____Katelyn___ Outdoor play ___Heather___ Greeter/Walkie (Lead Teacher)
_______Anna___ Snack ____Alice___ Data Collector

SELF-SELECTED ACTIVITIES 1:20 - 1:50 p.m.

Literacy Activities/ Books: Olivers Fruit Salad (WR F15), Vegetables (WR P A11), One red apple
(WR Z5)
Activity Description: On a table there will be sheets of paper that have written on them My
favorite fruit is a _____ and my favorite vegetable is a _____.
Child Objective: The children will work on their literacy skills as they write down their favorite
fruits and vegetables.
Intentional Teaching: A teacher can model writing down their favorite fruit or vegetable. They
can ask the children what their favorite is and why. They can help the children spell different fruits
and vegetables.
Activity Name Description/Activity Objective Materials, Special Set-up
Art Activity Description: There will be rolling Bubble wrap (Beautiful
Bubble wrap pins with bubble warp taped to it for the junk)
painting. #5 children to paint with. Trays (RR1)
Child Objective: The children will use the Point (RR1)
bubble wrap to point pictures as they see the
different textures that bubble wrap makes with
paint.
Intentional Teaching: Describe what the
adult should do: the strategies they should
use, questions they should ask children, the
supports they might provide, and limits on
what the children can do.
Manipulatives: Activity Description: The marble works will Marble works (RR1 W 38)
Marble Works # 4 be set up on the table with other pieces laying
on the table, so that the children can change
the set up.
Child Objective: The children will be able to
explore the cause and effect as the send the
marbles down the marble works.
Intentional Teaching: A teacher could
suggest to the children to send two marbles
down at the same time to see what one would
finish first. The teacher could also ask why one
finished before the other.
*Math: #4 Activity Description: There will be fruits and Fruits and Vegetables (IWP)
Measuring fruits vegetables on the table. There will be two Measuring Tapes (RR2 R
and vegetables pieces of paper taped on the table. One will 148)
and sorting them. say fruit and one will say vegetable. There will Containers (RR1)
be a measuring tape on the table for the
children to measure the different sizes of the
fruits and vegetables.
Child Objective: IELG D4 G40 CI 12 age 36-
60 months. Uses measuring tools and
vocabulary as they measure objects. Children
will be able to sort the fruits and vegetables by
 what different type of plant it is. They can also
sort them by those that grow on a tree or on a
plant.
Intentional Teaching: Teachers can ask the
children where a certain fruit or vegetable goes
and after they give an answer the teacher can
ask why.
*Science: @ #4 Activity Description: There will be cutting Cutting Boards (Kitchen),
Cutting up fruits boards on the table as well as knives. There Knives (Kitchen) Fruit and
and vegetables will be different kinds of fruit and vegetables vegetables (IWP)
that the children can cut up. Magnify glasses (RR1 P 74)
Child Objective: Children will explore the Tweezers (RR1 P 72)
fruits and vegetables and see how fruits have
seeds and how vegetables dont.
Intentional Teaching: Teachers can tell the
children that vegetables can be stems, leaves,
flowers. They can ask the children which things
are fruit and which are vegetables.
Sensory Table: # Activity Description: There will be water in Water Food coloring
5 Colored bubble the sensory table as well as food coloring and (Kitchen) Soap (Kitchen)
water. soap. There will be scoops, buckets and funnels
in the table.
Child Objective: The children will play in the
water with scoops and buckets and fill them up
with water. They will problem solve us the find
ways to use the funnels in different ways.
Intentional Teaching: A teacher can ask the
children to use the funnels to move the water
into a bucket. I teacher can also ask why the
bucket floats on the water until there is water
in it and then it sinks.
*Blocks: # 5 Farm Activity Description: There will be tractors Farm Animal (RR2 B 167)
and animals in the block area as well as a farm Wooden Farm (RR2 B 182)
and a gate. There will be green construction Green construction paper
paper on the ground to represent farm land. (WR)
Child Objective. The children will play farm
where fruit and vegetables grow.
Intentional Teaching: A teacher can ask the
children what grows at a farm. They can also
ask the children why the farmers need tractors
when it comes to planting and picking.
*Dramatic Play: Activity Description: There will be fruits and Grocery Baskets (RR2 Y
#6 vegetables placed around the area as well as 230)
Grocery store. other food items There will be a cash register Fruit and Vegetables (RR2 Y
and baskets placed around the area as well. 234)
Child Objective: The children will be able to Cash register (RR2 Y 253)
buy fruits and vegetables from each other and Food (RR2 Y 235)
sort them into fruits and vegetables as they Purses RR2 Y 221)
play. Dolls (RR2 Y 241)
Intentional Teaching: A teacher can ask a
child if what item they are buying is a fruit or
vegetable.
Alternatives:
Creative Art: Description: Their will be paper and pencils Paper (Art cart)
Drawing for the children to draw with. Pencils (Art cart)

2nd: Puzzles Description: There will be puzzles for the Puzzles (Classroom)
children to put together.

ROTATING SNACK 1:00-1:50 p.m. Cornbread muffins; juice

OUTDOOR PLAY 1:10-2:50 p.m. Location: South

Playground
Gross Motor: Description: The stilts will be placed outside Stilts (GG)
Stilts near the small shed.
Objective: The children will use the stilts to
practice their gross motor skills as the walk on
the stilts.
Intentional Teaching:
2nd: Gardening Description: Gardening tools will be placed in Garden tools (SS) Seeds
the garden outside along with seeds the that (IWP)
the children can plant with.
Objective: The children will use the gardening
tools to plant seeds in the garden and water
them which is how all fruits and vegetables
start to grow.
Intentional Teaching: As the children plant
seeds the teachers can ask them how the plant
will grow. Will they be roots, stems, on a trees,
a leaf. Teachers can tell children how certain
vegetables and fruits grow.
3rd: Aluminum Description: The Aluminum Ladder will be Aluminum Ladder (GG)
Ladder placed outside of the grass.
Objective: Ielg D2 G17 CI15 Child will walk up
stair using both feet. The children will work on
their gross motor skills as they walk up the
ladder and cross over it to go to the other side.
Intentional Teaching: A teacher can stand
near the children as they use this ladder telling
them to use one foot at a time and
encouraging them to switch off stepping with
both feet.

CLEAN UP 2:50-2:55 p.m. Clean up song

GATHERING TIME 2:55-3:10 p.m.

Transition
Vegetable Song
Activity Name Description Materials
1. Difference I will show the children different fruits like an Fruits (IWP), Vegetables
between fruits apple, orange, banana, tomato, pumpkin, (IWP)
and vegetables. avocado. I will take them out of a bag one at a
time. As I show them each item I will ask them
Is this a fruit or vegetable I will tell them that
Friuit grows on trees and plants and most fruit
 taste sweet, but not all fruit does. Fruits have
seeds. I will pass around a couple of fruits that
are cut in half and show how they all have
seeds in them. I will pass those parts of the
fruit around. I will do the same thing with
different vegetables.
2. Making a fruit I will tell the children that we are going to Fruit and vegetables (IWP)
salad. make a fruit salad. I will hold up different fruits Fruit Salad (IWP)
and vegetables and I will ask them Would this Bowl (Kitchen) Spoon
belong in a fruit salad? As we decide it (Kitchen)
belongs in the salad I will put that fruit which
will already be cut up in a bowl. After we put all
the fruit items in the bowl, I will tell them
Pretend to stir the fruit together as I stir the
salad. I will tell the children that we should
eat the fruit salad. I will have the other
teachers hand the children already prepared
fruit salad to eat.
3. Fruits and I will tell the children All fruits and vegetables Pictures (IWP)
vegetables grow start from a seed that grows into a plant. In a
from plants and bag, I will have pictures of different of trees
trees. and plants and I will draw them from a bag and
tell the children what fruit or vegetable grows
from that plant or tree.
Transition to Small I will name each child off and tell them what
Focus Groups teacher they are going to go with.

SMALL FOCUS GROUP

3:10-3:25 p.m.

Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4

____ ______ ____ _______
_______ ______ ____ _____
_______ _______ ____ _____
_______ ______ ___ _______
_______ ______ _______ ____
________
Your Activity Description & Objective Materials
Taste Testing Description: There will be trays with fruits and 1) Fruit and
vegetables on them and a knife for the teachers to Vegetables
cut up the vegetables. The children will need to (IWP) Knifes
wash their hands before they taste the food. (Kitchen) Trays
Objective: The children will be able to taste the (Kitchen)
difference between fruits and vegetables and taste 2) Growing
the similarities between them. Vegetable Soup
Intentional Teaching: A teacher can ask the The Hungry
children what things they taste are sweet. As the Caterpillar (2)
children are tasting the different items, a teacher An Alphabet
can tell the children of they are eating a fruit or Salad: Fruits &
vegetable and what part of the plant they are Vegetables from
eating. A to Z
CLOSING CIRCLE 3:25-3:40 p.m.
Transition: Fruit Salad ( CD Y 1)

Activity Name Description Materials

Fruit and Vegetable I will show the children a chart with all the different fruits and Chart (IWP)
chart. vegetables they tried on it. I will go down the chart and ask
the children if they liked it. I will have them raise their hands
and mark it if they liked it. I will than go down the chart again
and ask them what their favorite one was and mark it. After
we go through all of them, I will tally them up and we will see
what the favorite fruit and vegetable was. I will have the
children count with me as I count how many points are on
each fruit or vegetable.
Whats missing. I will have a tray with 3 fruits and 3 vegetables. I will tell the Fruits and
Fruit and children to remember what is on the tray. I will cover the tray vegetables.
Vegetable. and remove one fruit or vegetable at a time. I will ask the (IWP)
children what one is missing. I will do this until I remove all
the fruit.
Phonemic I will pull out of a bag 5 different Items. 3 of them will start Items (IWP)
Awareness with the same letter. I will make the sound of that letter and
ask the children what items have that sound. I will do this
times.
Music We are the dinosaurs (CD Y 12)
Story/ Book Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that type. I will read them the book. Click, Clack,
Moo, Cows
that Type.
By Doreen
Cronin (WR
B C29)
Donut Song I will give each of the children a big penny. I will sing the Pennies
song and one child will come up and put their penny in box I (IWP),
will have then I will open the donut box and the child will Money box
pick a fake colored donut. I will do this until each child has a (IWP), Donut
turn. and Donut
Box (IWP)
Felt Bored story I will tell the children the story of five little fish as I put the felt 5 felt fish
pieces on the felt bored. (IWP)
Parachute Each child will hold onto the parachute. We will put two balls Parachute
on it and we will move the parachute in different ways all (GG) Balls
while we try to keep the balls on the parachute. (GG)
Red light, green When I hold a green light picture up the children will start Red light
light walking towards me. When I hold a red light picture up the picture (IWP)
will stop. Green Light
Picture (IWP

WORDS TO SONGS & FINGERPLAYS (must provide):

Vegetables Sung to: "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
We are pumpkins, big and round
Big and round, big and round
We are pumpkins, big and round
Seated on the ground.

We are string beans, green and fine.....

Growing on a vine.
We are onions, round and white....
We make soup taste right.
We are carrots, orange and long...
Help us sing our song.
We are cabbage, green or red....
See our funny head.
We are corn stalks, tall and straight....
Don't we just taste great.

RESOURCES (must provide):

http://www.preschool-plan-it.com/fruits-and-vegetables.html
http://www.adaycare.com/Preschool-November-Curriculum-Sample-Fruit-Vegetable-
Theme.html