LESSON OVERVIEW (1): Creaky Old House

Items Corps Member needs to provide:

Lesson 1:

  • Partner Child Sign-in sheet
  • Vocabulary Cards
  • Explore time box
  • Items from house
  • Puzzles from the store room

Lesson 2:

  • Letter Game

Lesson 3:

  • Poster (TC)
  • Letter Game
  • Puzzle
  • Knife *

IMPACT will provide:

Lesson 1:

  • Core Story Book
  • Writing Activity 
  • Letter Game (2)

Lesson 2:

  • Math Activity
  • Puzzle

Lesson 3:

  • Fruits / Vegetables
  • Paper plates
  • Paint / Paint brushes
  • Paper

*Cut the items open at home before entering the classroom, to avoid any mistakes

Lesson Outline (1)

Creaky Old House

SIGN-IN (5 min)

  • Help your partner child sign his/her name in the sign-in binder

ASSIGNED READING (15 min)

  • The book for this week is Creaky Old House
  • Please read the book before reading it with your preschool partner

EXPLORE TIME (5 min)

  • For this explore time you will help your child identify objects, and say where they belong in a house

WRITING ACTIVITY (15 min)

During the writing activities make sure to take your time and point out each individual letter to your partner child. Spend time comparing letters and helping them to understand the sounds of each letter.

My House

  • Help your partner child draw a house
  • Label each part with them after they finish the activity

LETTER GAMES AND PUZZLES (15 min)

Which Letter?

  • Help your partner child circle the letter that each word begins with

Circle the Letter

  • Help your partner child circle the letters that are in the words

Puzzle

  • If time allows, bring in a puzzle to complete with your partner child

CLEAN UP AND SIGN OUT (5min)

  • Help your partner child sign out in the binder

Assigned Reading (1)
Creaky Old House

The story for this week is Creaky Old House: Linda Ashman

  • Please read the story before your lesson and prepare the vocabulary words below:

Sloping: To slant or lean

Dilapidated: To be falling apart, from wear, age, or neglect

Ancient: Very old or aged

Shed: A structure built outside, used for storing items such as tools

Study: To think deeply, reflect, or consider

Diagram: A chart, plan, or scheme

Relief: Alleviate, ease, and remove stress

Crooked: Not straight, bending, curved

EXAMPLE VOCABULARY CARDS:

Front:Back:

Explore Time
Creaky Old House

ITEMS YOU WILL NEED

  • Your explore time box
  • Items from your house

EXPLORE TIME:

  • For this explore time you will bring in a few items from your house or place of living
  • Pull out each item individually and ask your partner child where they might find that item in their house (or place of living)
  • If you wanted to make this more fun, you could have your partner child close their eyes and feel the items in the box to see if they can guess what they are

Examples:

  • Toothpaste: bathroom
  • Wooden Spoon or spatula: kitchen
  • Magazine or book: bedroom
  • CD: bedroom or living room
  • Stuffed animal: bedroom

Writing Activity:My House
Creaky Old House

For this activity, your partner child will draw a picture of their house (below), or any house they like. Once they are finished, you can help them label the different parts of the house (i.e. roof, door, window, path, yard etc.)

Letter Game: Which Letter?

Creaky Old House

Point out the picture on the left. Ask your partner child if they know what the picture is, and to say the word. Then ask them to circle the letter that the word starts with.

Letter Games: Circle the Letter

Creaky Old House

Have your partner child circle the letters on the right that spell the word on the left

Example:
Plant / P q l a r n t
Creaky / C k r e l a p k y
Door / D x o a o r
Wide / W f i v d y e
Bump / B u g m s p
Wall / W h a l n l
Build / B u j i t l w d

Lesson Outline (2)

A Visitor for Bear

SIGN-IN (5 min)

  • Help your partner child sign his/her name in the sign-in binder

ASSIGNED READING (15 min)

  • The book for this week is Creaky Old House
  • Re-read the book to your preschool partner child
  • Review the flashcard vocabulary words
  • Make sure to ask open-ended questions

LETTER GAMES (10 min)

  • Bring in a letter game from the store room that will focus on your partner child’s needs

MATH ACTIVITY (10 min)

How Many?

  • Help your partner child count the items on the page

PUZZLES (15 min)

Creaky Old House

  • Cut out the picture from Creaky Old House
  • Help your partner child put it back together again
  • If time allows, color the page

CLEAN UP / SIGN OUT (5 min)

  • Help your partner child sign out in the binder

Math Activity:How Many?
Creaky Old House

Help your partner child circle or point to the number that corresponds with the pictures on the left of the page.

How many doors are there?

How many paint buckets are there?

How many hammers are there?

How many clocks are there?

How many light bulbs are there?

How many pumpkins are there?

Lesson Outline: Team Lesson

Paddington (3)

SIGN-IN (5 min)

  • Mentor and partner child open sign-in binder and practice writing child’s name

GROUP STORY TIME (10 min)

  • Team Captain chooses a story to read to group
  • Pulls out vocabulary words
  • Asks open-ended questions

POEMS / SONGS (10 min)

Our House

SCIENCE ACTIVITY (20 min)

What’s Inside?

  • Cut open the different fruits and vegetables to show the children what is inside
  • Let the children paint with the apples and pieces of pumpkin

LETTER GAMES (15 min)

Spell With Me

  • Give each partner child a letter and help them spell the words together

PUZZLES (15 min)

Inside or Out?

  • Help the partner child as a group determine where the items belong

CLEAN UP / SIGN OUT (10 min)

Poems / Songs:
Creaky Old House

Team Captains: Please copy these poems onto a poster and add pictures. You can also create your own movements to do with the children as you say each poem.

Our house is a house we built together (cross arms on chest)
We have laid every brick one by one (put one finger up when you say “one by one”)
We have nailed every board one blow at a time (pretend to hammer a nail)
Our house is a house we built together (cross arms on chest)
Every board is not perfect some are not straight (wave finger back and forth)
Some walls are built in the wrong place (wave finger back and forth)
We must carefully remove those boards ( throw hands down)
We must carefully remove those walls (throw hands down)
We must rebuild them in the correct place
We must replace each board one by one (put one finger up when you say “one by one”)
Until the holes are all closed (pretend to hammer a nail)
Until all the walls are in the right place
When we finish we can stand back and say
This is our house, a house we built together (cross arms on chest)

Science Activity:What’s Inside?
Creaky Old House

ITMES YOU WILL NEED:

  • 1 small pumpkin
  • 3 small apples
  • 1 orange
  • Sharp Knife
  • Large spoon
  • Paper plates
  • Paint
  • Paper

DIRECTIONS:

  • For this Science activity you will explore pumpkins and other fruits and vegetables
  • Ask the group what they think will be inside once you cut open the vegetables/fruits
  • (please see apple activity first) Cut open the vegetables/fruits one at a time, and show the children what is inside
  • Let them feel the seeds and explore what is inside

APPLE ACTIVITY:

  • Cut the apple horizontally instead of vertically
  • Let the children see the star pattern in the apple
  • They can dip the apple lightly in paint, and stamp on paper

Letter Games: Spell With Me
Creaky Old House

ITEMS YOU WILL NEED

  • Word Cards
  • Individual Letters
  • Large Poster
  • Clip art or pictures
  • Tape

TEAM CAPTAINS:

  • Choose a few words from the book (about 4)
  • Print out large letters for each word, and cut them out individually
  • Also make each word on a large card or piece of paper as a guide
  • Give the children each a letter from one word
  • Show them the word on a card and ask what it starts with, and which child has that letter
  • You can tape the words to a board and build each of the words

Puzzles: Inside or Out?
Creaky Old House

ITEMS YOU WILL NEED:

  • Pictures cut from a magazine (or internet)

DIRECTIONS:

  • Pull out each picture one at a time
  • Ask the children if they know what the item is
  • Ask them if they know what the word starts with (what it ends with etc.)
  • Then ask either each child individually, or as a group whether the item belongs inside a house or outside
  • You could take this a step further and ask which room the item can generally be found

Example Poster:

EXAMPLE ITEMS:

  • Couch
  • Hose
  • Pillows
  • Bed
  • Bathroom Items
  • Lamp
  • Food
  • Refrigerator
  • Trees
  • Car
  • Books
  • Rake
  • Watering can