Daily Teaching Guide
Preschool
June Week 4
Safety Week
Day 5
Circle Time:
Crossing The Road
You will need a piece of card board about four feet long by two feet wide and paint it black. You should be able to pick up some card board at a local grocery store, just ask them for a box and cut it down and duck tape it together to make the road and then using tempera paint, paint it black.
Next, you will need to tape some yellow strips of yellow construction paper down the center of the card board to make a road.
Then the teacher will cut out two circles and attach them to craft sticks, one will be red and the other one green. Have the children stand in a line and take turns crossing the road.
The teacher will hold up either the red or the green stop sign and ask each of the children when it is their turn, if they can cross the road. The child will need to look at the color of the stop sign to see if he/she can cross. If he can cross the road, remind him to look both way before crossing, if he can’t cross the road, then he will need to wait for the “light to change” and then he can cross.
Remind the children to look both ways before crossing the road.
Art Time:
Traffic Light
You will need one piece of black construction paper per child. Cut the paper in half, lengthwise. You will need red, yellow and green construction paper and trace some circles onto this paper to become the traffic lights. A small can of spaghetti or tuna fish is about the right size to use. Trace around the cans and then give the paper to the children to cut out their circles and have them glue these onto the black construction paper to make a traffic light.
Teacher will make a traffic light too and hang it up to give the children a model to copy.
Learning Time:
Green and Red Circles
This activity will help to reinforce the shape circle, the colors red and green and give the children some practice cutting.
Teacher will need to make the children a circle stencil from a piece of card board. Show the children how to lay the stencil down onto the construction paper and trace around it.
Next, put scissors, craft sticks and tape out on the tables so the children can cut out their circles from green and red construction paper. Show the children how they can attach the circles to the craft sticks to make their own stop and go signs.
Have the children use the signs they make with the song below.
Special Activity:
Color the Traffic Light
Teacher will need to print out one traffic light per child.
Have the children color the traffic light. You may want to hang the traffic light from art time today, so the children have a model to look at, if they would like to color the traffic light circles the correct colors, otherwise they can color the traffic light any way they would like.
After they finish coloring have them play a game of red light, green light.
Next Play Red light, Green Light
You will find that this activity works best outside. You will need to take the children outside and then have them line up at the end of the play ground. Tell them when you say green light they can start coming towards you, when you say red light they need to stop. The first child to tag you is it next. The child that "is it" will become the “caller” and say green light and red light to the other children. Whoever reaches the child that *is it* wins and gets to be the caller next.
Repeat until the children tire of this activity.
Song/Finger Rhyme:
Where Is Red Light - song
Tune to freque jacque
Where is red light? Where is red light? (Have children hold up red sign.)
Here I am. Here I am. (Wave sign back and forth)
When you see me, when you see me. (Point at the red sign)
Stop, stop, stop. Stop, stop, stop. (Hold hand up like to say stop)
Where is green light? Where is green light? (Have children hold up green sign.)
Here I am. Here I am. (Wave sign back and forth)
When you see me, when you see me. (Point at the green sign)
Go, go, go. Go, go, go. (Have the children walk across the room)
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